| Mines Film Footage & Job Applicants Sought, Youth Summit, Amputee Walks Boston to Miami...
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Call for Presidential Candidate Monitoring Have you heard any speeches by any of the presidential candidates? Planning on it? The US Campaign to Ban Landmines (USCBL) would like to hear about any landmine, Mine Ban Treaty, weapons policy, or general international treaty-related remarks that any of the present candidates, their running mates, or their wives have made. If you have heard any statements, please send a brief description to the USCBL at landmines@fcnl.org with "candidate statement" in the subject heading. Also, if you have a personal or professional connection to any of the candidates, we hope you will be in touch with us, so that we can work with you to better reach the candidates with a pro-Mine Ban Treaty message. Seeking Candidates to Apply for Positions at International Campaign to Ban Landmines The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) is a coalition of 1,400 organizations and thousands of people in over 90 countries who work locally, nationally, regionally, and internationally to ban antipersonnel landmines. The ICBL, which was co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize together with its former Coordinator Jody Williams, is currently seeking applicants for the positions of Executive Director, Treaty Implementation Officer, and Advocacy Officer. Applications will be accepted for Executive Director until September 1, 2004, and for Treaty Implementation Officer and Advocacy Officer until September 15, 2004. More details on these three positions can be found at the ICBL website. Landmine Survivor Walks from Boston to Miami After being fitted with a prosthesis below his knee and rehabilitated at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Julio Montoya, a landmine survivor from Peru, decided to walk from Boston to Miami to publicize his message: “To people who think life is finished after an accident, I want to show them that is not true." Montoya was a soldier in the Peruvian army. While working on a road construction project five years ago, a landmine exploded, and he lost his right leg. Montoya left Boston and began his journey on June 22, 2004. He has relied almost exclusively on the goodwill of his supporters for food and housing. On August 10, 2004 Montoya plans to arrive in Washington DC where he hopes to stop at the White House, City Hall, and the Peruvian Embassy. To learn more about Montoya, follow his progress,
and donate food or shelter, go to his website: www.caminoalfuturo.org
(though his current location may not be quite up to date on the
site). Julio Montoya can be reached by email at monty32_2000@hotmail.com
Looking for 18-26 Year Olds to Participate in Landmines Youth Symposium in Nairobi, Kenya The US Campaign to Ban Landmines, Mines Action Canada, the Youth Mine Action Ambassador Program, and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines invite you to nominate yourself or other young people to attend “In Our Lifetime: The 2004 International Youth Symposium on Landmines” in Nairobi, Kenya. The symposium will run from November 25 to December 3, 2004 and will include up to 35 youth between the ages of 18 and 26. It is being held as part of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty’s official Review Conference, which will bring together campaigners and government officials from around the world. Nominated youth must submit an application form
by AUGUST 27, available at this link: For more information on the International Youth Symposium, please visit www.dangermines.ca or contact Michael Warren, YMAAP International Program Officer, at mwarren@dangermines.ca. Call for Landmines Film Footage Independent from her roles as Chair of the US
Campaign to Ban Landmines and Coordinator of the Landmine Monitor
(based at Human Rights Watch), Mary Wareham is producing a documentary
about landmines and the campaign. She is requesting film footage
of actual mine-laying, mine warfare training, and mine incidents
(ie: extraction of casualties from minefields, historical war footage,
etc). Contact mary@nspfilms.org
for details on how to submit footage. For more information about
the project, visit www.nspfilms.org. New International Campaign to Ban Landmines Website The ICBL has unveiled its new, user-friendly website. Not only does this site make finding information easier, new information about the landmine issue has been added in a section titled “The Problem.” Other highlights of the site include country-specific facts, news, action alerts, events, and extensive details on the Mine Ban Treaty and its signatories. Check it out at www.icbl.org War Photographer and Landmine Survivor Documents Cambodia Peace July 22, 2004 Tim Page immortalised some of the most potent images of the Vietnam and Cambodian wars. The most celebrated photographer to survive the conflict, he has inspired books, documentaries and even a character in the classic film. Tim Page recently returned to Cambodia but this time he is documenting a mission of peace, a project to turn decommissioned weapons into art. "I died in Vietnam, I was blown up by a landmine in 1969 and lost 200cc of my brain and was paralysed," Tim said. "You're reminded of your own fragility, you're reminded of your own pains, your own traumas, that stuff which I think only people who actually have been in war really understand, the insanity, the madness." Tim Page is the legendary photographer who rode to war on his motorbike. A maverick, often on the front line, his potent images of the Cambodian and Vietnam conflicts influenced the course of history. Thirty-five years later, he is back in Cambodia to record the aftermath of decades of fighting, and the disturbing images of peace are almost as confronting as the horror of war... For the full article, visit http://www.banminesusa.org/news/902_cambodia.htm (c) 2004 Australian Broadcasting Corporation The Center for International Rehabilitation will release the next publication from the International Disability Rights Monitor (IDRM): The Regional Report of the Americas. This is the second publication and the first regional report of the International Disability Rights Monitor project. The Regional Report of the Americas contains reports from 24 countries and a regional report card summarizing the degree to which basic protections for the rights of people with disabilities are in place. The report will be released on August 24, 2004 at a press conference in New York City as part of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities, an international treaty being developed by a group of NGOs and government representatives. To order your complimentary copy of the IDRM Regional Report of the Americas: Email idrm@cirnetwork.org or visit www.disability.ws. Landmine Threat Suspends Aid Operations in Angola July 20, 2004 LUANDA, Angola-Landmines have forced two UN agencies and three non-governmental groups to suspend the delivery of humanitarian aid to some 60,000 people in Angola's central Bie province, according to a report here on Tuesday. The report of Luanda's Catholic Radio Ecclesia said that the five organizations, including the World Food Program and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), suspended their Bie operations Friday last week due to the discovery of landmines on roads linking the provincial capital, Cuito, to the towns of Andulo and Cunhinga. The aid organizations said they would resume operations in Bie as soon as mine clearance teams secured those roads. Emerging from a 27-year civil war, landmine-strewn roads and fields still pose serious threats to Angolans, with many killed and lamed. (c) Copyright 2004 Xinhua News Agency For more information about the US Campaign to Ban Landmines or to donate on-line, please see our website at www.banminesusa.org U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines To stop receiving these updates and action alerts, please write to landmines@fcnl.org from the email address that receives the newsletter and ask us to take you off the list. |
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