A long-time member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and the more recent Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC), the Swiss Campaign to Ban Landmines (the Swiss Campaign) is an umbrella organisation composed of about 50 Swiss non-governmental organisations (NGOs) gathered around the common objective of banning antipersonnel landmines and similar indiscriminate weapons (such as cluster munitions or anti-vehicle landmines).
At the national level, the Swiss Campaign successfully advocated in favour of a national ban of antipersonnel landmines and of Switzerland's signature and ratification of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Antipersonnel Mines and on Their Destruction in 1995-1997. Within the ICBL, the Swiss Campaign was a member of the Non State Actors Working Group, which it co-chaired until the end of 2004. The Swiss Campaign has also participated in the creation of Geneva Call which primarily aims at engaging armed non-state actors in a total ban of antipersonnel landmines. Moreover, the Swiss Campaign has supported the creation of other national campaigns of the ICBL, such as the Nepal Campaign to Ban Landmines and the Initiative for a Mine-free Turkey.
Regions of MA operation
- Europe
Related mine action topics
- International conventions
- Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM)
- EORE
- Non Governmental Organisations
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