" International Campaign to Ban Landmines
- ICBL"
SACRE COEUR ALUMNAE EVERYWHERE!!
Patricia Coyle rscj
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) has achieved
a great deal. There is still more to do. With the continuing determination
and commitment of the ICBL Coalition of NGOs (non government organisations)
and small and middle –sized nations, it will be done, and
one may hope that the odd big power might join the team.
Sacre Coeur alumnae may well be so placed, so connected via family,
business, academia, sport, etc etc, that they are able to actively
advance the work towards a total ban on antipersonnel landmines
– their production, transfer, storage, and use. The ban is
there – binding international law since 1 March 1999, but
there are a number of major outlaws – for whatever reason
- countries which reserve the right to manufacture, trade, etc etc
in this most cowardly of all weapons, though most do have a moratorium
on their use in existence at present.
Perhaps the first step for some, maybe many, readers, is to learn
the facts, the reality, the truth. (see below)
A few years ago I communicated with a person in a position to at
least try to involve SC Alumnae and others in the work of the campaign.
I was told that that country has its own problems - it does! It
manufactures, trades in and uses landmines!
I challenge each reader of this message to inform him/herself of
the current world situation, and his/her own country’s place
within that scenario, regarding landmines.
Maybe your country does not possess landmines, never has, and very
likely, never will. It is, however, numerically equal to each big
power, and the super-power. Every country counts.
So, if your country is still outside the Treaty, please make every
effort to remedy this. Explore the situation, learn the facts and
bring it into the now large and significant group termed States
Parties.
ICB Website:<http://www.icbl.org/>
lots of routes to go. Be daring! Face the truth!
Patricia Coyle rscj
3 march 2007
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