***MEDIA ADVISORY***

Event:   Cluster Munition Monitor 2015 Report Launch
Where: Press Room III, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
When:  Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 10:00

Speakers

Welcome and Introduction:

Mr. Jarmo Sareva, Director, UNIDIR

Overview of Report Findings:

Ms. Mary Wareham, Advocacy Director, Arms Division, Human Rights Watch and ban policy editor for Cluster Munition Monitor 2015

Ms. Amelie Chayer, Government Liaison and Policy Manager, ICBL-CMC

Mr. Loren Persi, Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, casualties and victim assistance editor for Cluster Munition Monitor 2015

Available for questions: Some of the world’s leading experts on cluster munitions will be on hand to answer media questions, including members of the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor Editorial Team (in English and French).

Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor will release the global findings of Cluster Munition Monitor 2015 report examining how states are working to implement and adhere to the ban on cluster munitions, ensure clearance of cluster munition remnants, and assist victims of these indiscriminate weapons. To mark the First Review Conference of the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, the report reviews developments in the period since the convention entered into force on 1 August 2010. It also looks at activities in 2014 and the first half of 2015.  It covers global trends in ban policy, survey and clearance of cluster munition remnants, and casualties and victim assistance. Additional online resources profile every country in the world.

Hard copies of the Cluster Munition Monitor 2015 report will be available at the press conference, which will be held in English. The press release and Major Findings will be available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic. The report will be available in English. Advance copies of the report and press materials will be made available to interested journalists as of Monday 31 August.

Links:

• Cluster Munition Monitor 2015 and related documents, available 10am CET 3 Sept. at: www.the-monitor.org/
• CMC Homepage - http://www.stopclustermunitions.org/
• CMC YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/CMCInternational
• Convention on Cluster Munitions - http://www.clusterconvention.org/
• CMC on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/clustermunitioncoalition/
• CMC Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/banclusterbombs?ref=hl
• CMC Twitter - https://twitter.com/banclusterbombs
• Landmine and Cluster Munition Twitter - https://twitter.com/MineMonitor
• Additional Twitter - @marywareham

For more information or to schedule an interview, contact:

• Jared Bloch, ICBL-CMC Media and Communications Consultant, Geneva (CET), Mobile +41-(0)78-683-4407 or email jared [at] icblcmc.org

• Jeff Abramson, Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor Coordinator, United States (EDT), Mobile 1-646-527-5793 or email jeff [at] icblcmc.org

The Monitor gratefully acknowledges financial contributors to our research, including the Federal Republic of Germany for their generous support of the launch of Cluster Munition Monitor 2015.