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Campaigners Marked 4th April
the International Mine Awareness Day
4th April, the International Mine Awareness Day has been observed since 2015 aiming to raise awareness on the need to eradicate landmines, cluster munitions and all explosive remnants of war.
Members of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Munitions Coalition all over including in Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas and Middle East and North Africa have carried out advocacy activities in the lead up to and on 4 April to promote universalization and implementation of the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions and the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. They conducted actions such as lobbying meetings with decision makers; writing letters to Ministers, Parliamentarians and Presidents; conducting media work and publishing press releases; briefing diplomats or other supporters of the campaign; organizing public events (workshops, round tables, raising awareness among students, concerts or a flash-mobs); staging photo exhibitions; blogging; launching petitions or social media campaigns.
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Nobel Laureates and campaigners urge Democratic Republic of Congo to ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions
Nobel Laureates, campaign ambassadors and campaigners from about 50 countries called on H.E. Joseph Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Laureate, Dr. Shirin Ebadi, 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate, CMC Ambassadors Branislav Kapetanovic and Margaret Arach Orech joined national campaigns by supporting a global action that was launched by the Campagne congolaise pour interdire les mines and the Cluster Munition Coalition to urge the Democratic Republic of Congo to ratify the Convention as soon as possible before the Sixth Meeting of States Parties that will take place in September 2016 in Geneva.
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