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States
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156 |
Signatories |
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Non
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37 |
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MBCBL
Fundraisers
2008-2009
Goal---- $7,500.00
Raised ------- $0.00
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Previous Years
2005 ------------ $7,326.17
2005-2006 ---- $9,904.30
2006-2007 -- $10,635.15
2007-2008 ---- $7,717.67
Total Raised Since 2005
$35,583.29
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Landmine
Monitor 2007
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
Three Canadian soldiers killed and another injured in Afghanistan
CEFCOM NR–08.038 & CEFCOM NR–08.039 - August 21, 2008
 OTTAWA – Three Canadian soldiers were killed and one soldier injured after an improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle, while on patrol, on Highway 1 in Zharey District at approximately 10:30 a.m., Kandahar time, on August 20, 2008.
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Friday, August 15, 2008
MINES ACTION CANADA CONDEMNS RUSSIAN USE OF CLUSTER BOMBS IN GEORGIA
(Ottawa, 15 August 2008) Mines Action Canada, in solidarity with the 300 other organizations worldwide that make up the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC), strongly condemns Russia’s use of cluster bombs in Georgia just three months after 107 nations agreed to ban the weapon.
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Friday, August 01, 2008
Rising Afghan violence threatens aid effort: NGOs
From Reuters Alertnet - By Jon Hemming
 Violence in Afghanistan has reached its worst level since 2001 with more than 260 civilians killed in July alone, a group of 100 aid agencies said on Friday, calling on all sides to do more to protect the lives of non-combatants.
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
MBCBL Visits NCDR in Jordan
Mine Risk Education and Victim Assistance a Priority
 MBCBL Coordinators Darryl R. Toews and Meredith Daun visited the National Committee for Demining and Rehabilitation (NCDR) in Amman, Jordan, to learn more about mine action in that country. (Photo: Darryl R. Toews at the Syrian border with NCDR staff).
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Sunday, July 20, 2008
Canadian Soldier Killed in Afghanistan
CEFCOM NR–08.027 - July 19, 2008
 OTTAWA– Yesterday, a Canadian soldier was killed just before midnight Kandahar time. The soldier was killed by an Improvised Explosive Device while on a foot patrol in Panjwayi District.
The fallen soldier is Corporal James (Jim) Hayward Arnal of the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, based in Shilo, Manitoba.
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Sunday, June 01, 2008
MBCBL Looks for Landmines at the Movies
New films added to MBCBL list
 Russell Crowe has used them. Angelina Jolie has been killed by them. They've threatened, they've maimed, and they've killed some of the silver screen's greatest heroes. But unlike the actors, real people rarely walk away unharmed from their encounters with landmines.
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
GROUNDBREAKING TREATY BANNING CLUSTER BOMBS AGREED. CLUSTER BOMB SURVIVORS AND CAMPAIGNERS REJOICE
From the Cluster Munition Coalition
 Dublin, May 28th, 2008: Cluster bomb suvivors and campaigners are tonight rejoicing over the groundbreaking and comprehensive new treaty to ban cluster bombs that has just been provisionally agreed in Dublin. After ten days of intense negotiation under Irish leadership, 110 countries negotiating at the conference and hundreds of campaigners and survivors within the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) welcomed the treaty.
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Saturday, May 24, 2008
CAMPAIGNERS CALL ON U.S. TO STOP BULLYING NEGOTIATORS
 (Dublin, May 23rd, 2008) The Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) today called on the US to stop bullying and spreading inaccurate statements in an obvious attempt to weaken the treaty to ban cluster bombs. Cluster munition survivors, campaigners from all over the world and the American Nobel Prize winner, Jody Williams today protested outside the US embassy in an effort to draw attention to the issue.
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