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New youth campaign launched in support of the needs of survivors
On January 25, 2012, the Youth to Youth Action Network officially launched its Take the Next Step with Survivors! Campaign, under the guidance of Mines Action Canada.
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Mines Action Canada Launches Online Campaign Tool Linking Landmine, Cluster Bomb and Disability Treaties
OTTAWA, CANADA -- As the mine ban movement celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2012, Mines Action Canada is commemorating the milestone today by launching a new interactive campaign tool to explain and make connections among three groundbreaking international humanitarian treaties: the 1997 Ottawa Landmine Treaty, the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, and the 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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International Youth Fundraising Initiative Awards Five Scholarships to Cambodian Landmine Survivors
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA -- Participants at the Youth Leaders Forum held in conjunction with the Eleventh Meeting of States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty, presented ICBL Youth Ambassador Song Kosal with the funds to cover scholarships for six years of schooling from grades 7 to 12 for five young Cambodians. The recipients of the scholarships will be landmine or cluster munition survivors or the children of survivors.
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