Recognizing record high and increasing levels of global displacement and ongoing impact of landmines and cluster munitions, today the Landmine Monitor and Cluster Munition Monitor Casualties and Victim Assistance team is publishing Landmines/ERW, Refugees and Displacement, a timely new briefing paper that expands upon and updates developments since the last Monitor report on these important topics in 2013 “Landmines and Refugees: The Risks and the Responsibilities to Protect and Assist Victims.”
This briefing paper update focuses on refugees fleeing from, or into, countries contaminated by landmines and other explosive hazards, including cluster munitions and on the assistance provided to survivors of landmines, cluster munitions and other explosive remnants of war (ERW) who are refugees or displaced persons.
The Intersessional Meetings to the Convention on Cluster Munitions will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, on 22-23 June 2015. At this meeting, States Parties will report on efforts made and plans to implement their treaty obligations. States that have not yet joined the Convention will present updates on steps they are taking towards joining. The Mine Ban Treaty will hold its 2015 Intersessional Meetings in Geneva from 25-26 June 2015. Monitor briefing papers and factsheets are issued several times per year, usually surrounding major international meetings.
The Landmine Monitor and Cluster Munition Monitor is the research arm of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines - Cluster Munition Coalition (ICBL-CMC). The ICBL was awarded the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for its work to eradicate landmines. Factsheet content is often drawn from the most recent annual Monitor reports and online thematic country profiles available at the-monitor.org.