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The year 2024 was a year of challenges, achievements, and lessons learned. We grew, changed, learned, and worked hard to do the best we know and can. Together with our partners, who have been our strong support every year, we worked on strengthening and empowering individuals and communities with the desire to create an environment…

Fifth Review Conference (5RC) of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Antipersonnel Mines and on Their Destruction, also known as the Ottawa Convention will be held from November 25-29, 2024 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Cambodia named this conference “The Siem Reap-Angkor Summit on a Mine-Free Word”. The purpose…

The 100-page Cluster Munition Monitor 2024 report provides a comprehensive overview of implementation and adherence to the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions. A total of 112 states—including South Sudan, the last country to accede to the convention in August 2023—are party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which comprehensively prohibits cluster munitions and requires destruction…

The Delegation of the Republic of Slovenia, the Delegation of the European Union, the Permanent Mission of Slovenia and the Implementation Support Unit (ISU) of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Production, Stockpiling, and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, will be held from August 27 to 29, 2024 in Ljubljana,…

Even though for the past couple of years digitalization process in the Western Balkans has been gaining pace, with the educational sector being put on the spot with introduction of online learning contents as a result of COVID 19, numerous literature reviews showcase that severe digital divide and gaps prohibit the educational efforts for many…

Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor is looking for photos to be published in this year’s publications and displayed on the Monitor website. The call is open to everyone. Please look through your digital photo albums, solicit photos from colleagues and partner organizations, and send high-resolution photos by Friday 14 June 2024 to monitor@icblcmc.org What are…

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Mine Ban Treaty’s entry into force, a monumental milestone in global efforts to end the use of antipersonnel landmines, inherently indiscriminate weapons that have a devastating impact on communities worldwide. Signed in December 1997, the treaty came into force on 1 March 1999, establishing a global prohibition on…

The Explosive Ordinance Risk Education (EORE) Advisory Group is conducting its annual survey. Your responses should help measure progress made in the sector, identify needs and inform future priorities. The survey should take around 15-20 minutes to complete and will be open until 22 December 2023. Click here to complete the survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WNNM9PC

The Twenty-First Meeting of the States Parties (21MSP) is the formal, diplomatic meeting of the 164 States that have accepted to be bound by the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Production, Stockpiling and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction and last formal meeting prior to the Fifth Review Conference. The meeting…