25/06/2014
The third Review Conference of the Convention on the prohibition of anti-personnel mines is held from 23 to 27 June 2014. At the Conference, called, Maputo +15, dealt with the achievements made in the fifteen years since the Convention entered into force. But also new challenges are treated: the lack of universality, the need to promote assistance to the victims, the use of antipersonnel landmines in recent conflicts or the acquisition and use of such weapons by non-State actors.
Author: Mª del Mar Hidalgo García