Nairobi summit opens with call for action for landmine survivors
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The largest ever gathering of survivors of landmines this week called on states to solidify their commitment to the implementation of the Mine Ban Treaty of 1997 and to work towards greater help for people with disabilities.
The 40 survivors, from 33 countries, were attending a landmine survivors meeting, which was part of the Nairobi summit on a mine free world, which opened in Kenya on Sunday.
Ken Rutherford, cofounder of the Landmine Survivors Network, pointed out, "The mine ban treaty aimed at the full social and economic reintegration of landmines survivors but this will only be achieved when our rights are fulfilled and when the barriers that prevent people with disabilities their rights are dismantled."
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines estimates that there are currently some 300 000 to 400 000 landmine survivors in the world today, with numbers increasing daily.
"While a great deal has been accomplished since the Ottawa Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines was established, the plight of landmine survivors around the world remains a major humanitarian challenge," said Austria抯 permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Wolfgang Petritsch, president of the Nairobi summit.
"Since the Ottawa Convention entered into force , the International Committee of the Red Cross alone has generated more than $100m from the international donor community to help landmine survivors and other war wounded. Partnerships between donor states and other key organisations like Handicap International and the Landmine Survivors Network have resulted in similar amounts being spent in recent years to assist in the care, rehabilitation and reintegration of survivors," said Mr Petritsch.
"However, I am convinced that much more needs to be done. Therefore I have proposed that the Ottawa convention抯 members adopt 11 concrete actions at the Nairobi summit to fulfill our promises to survivors."
The draft Nairobi Action Plan 2005-2009 includes the following proposals:
That the 23 Ottawa Convention members with the greatest number of landmine survivors improve healthcare services needed to respond to the survivors?medical needs
That these states increase physical rehabilitation capacity and develop means to meet the psychological support needs of survivors, and actively help in survivors?economic reintegration
That those Ottawa Convention members in a position to provide help promptly respond to the priorities for support articulated by those states in need
That all Ottawa Convention members ensure the effective integration of landmine survivors as full partners to implement the work of the convention.
"As survivors our expectations are to increase awareness about survivors and we demand that state parties fulfil what they promised in the Mine Ban Treaty," said Adnan al Aboudy, director of Landmine Survivors Network Jordan, "The reason we are here is that we want a mine free world and we encourage countries to accede to the Ottawa Treaty if they have not yet done so."(Nairobi Peter Moszynski)
The 40 survivors, from 33 countries, were attending a landmine survivors meeting, which was part of the Nairobi summit on a mine free world, which opened in Kenya on Sunday.
Ken Rutherford, cofounder of the Landmine Survivors Network, pointed out, "The mine ban treaty aimed at the full social and economic reintegration of landmines survivors but this will only be achieved when our rights are fulfilled and when the barriers that prevent people with disabilities their rights are dismantled."
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines estimates that there are currently some 300 000 to 400 000 landmine survivors in the world today, with numbers increasing daily.
"While a great deal has been accomplished since the Ottawa Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines was established, the plight of landmine survivors around the world remains a major humanitarian challenge," said Austria抯 permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Wolfgang Petritsch, president of the Nairobi summit.
"Since the Ottawa Convention entered into force , the International Committee of the Red Cross alone has generated more than $100m from the international donor community to help landmine survivors and other war wounded. Partnerships between donor states and other key organisations like Handicap International and the Landmine Survivors Network have resulted in similar amounts being spent in recent years to assist in the care, rehabilitation and reintegration of survivors," said Mr Petritsch.
"However, I am convinced that much more needs to be done. Therefore I have proposed that the Ottawa convention抯 members adopt 11 concrete actions at the Nairobi summit to fulfill our promises to survivors."
The draft Nairobi Action Plan 2005-2009 includes the following proposals:
That the 23 Ottawa Convention members with the greatest number of landmine survivors improve healthcare services needed to respond to the survivors?medical needs
That these states increase physical rehabilitation capacity and develop means to meet the psychological support needs of survivors, and actively help in survivors?economic reintegration
That those Ottawa Convention members in a position to provide help promptly respond to the priorities for support articulated by those states in need
That all Ottawa Convention members ensure the effective integration of landmine survivors as full partners to implement the work of the convention.
"As survivors our expectations are to increase awareness about survivors and we demand that state parties fulfil what they promised in the Mine Ban Treaty," said Adnan al Aboudy, director of Landmine Survivors Network Jordan, "The reason we are here is that we want a mine free world and we encourage countries to accede to the Ottawa Treaty if they have not yet done so."(Nairobi Peter Moszynski)