Campaña Colombiana Contra Minas (CCCM)
The Campaña Colombiana Contra Minas/Colombian Campaign Against Mines (CCCM) was born in 1999 as a voluntary and independent citizen initiative. Since that year he has been a member of the International Campaign to Ban Antipersonnel Mines (ICBL), a global network of organizations that has worked to eradicate antipersonnel mines since 1991. In 1997, the ICBL won the Nobel Prize. de Paz for promoting the total ban on mines through the “Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Antipersonnel Mines and on their destruction”, commonly known as the Ottawa Convention .
In 2000, the CCCM was established as a non-governmental organization (NGO) and a year later it integrated disarmament issues and the initiatives that promote it into its field of action, promoting the values of Human Security and Development. This is possible through the strengthening of national policies, international standards, assistance to victims and mitigation of the impact of the use, storage, production, transfer and destruction of weapons and explosive devices, regulated or prohibited by International Humanitarian Law (IHL). used to wound, maim or kill.
The CCCM is made up of civil society organizations, including the Peace and Democracy Corporation (Antioquia), the Vision and Management Corporation (Caldas), or the Valle de Pubenza Foundation (Cauca). Likewise, it works hand in hand with institutions, national and local organizations, as well as several departmental survivor associations. He is also part of the National Board of Education on Mine Risk, in charge of coordinating and accompanying education actions to prevent accidents caused by mines.
In the field of disarmament, the CCCM, in alliance with international organizations such as the International Campaign to Ban Mines (ICBL), the Coalition against Cluster Munitions (CMC), the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN ), the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, Control Arms, the International Network against Explosive Weapons (INEW) Closter Munition Coalition and Human Security in Latin America and the Caribbean (Sehlac), works in raising awareness about the risks for the civilian population of this type of weapons, as well as promoting prohibition treaties that prevent their effects.
Its main headquarters are in the city of Bogotá and it has a network of coordinators and volunteers in 22 of the 31 departments affected by antipersonnel mines (MAP), unexploded ordnance (MSE) and explosive traps (TE).
MISSION
The Colombian Campaign Against Mines’s mission is to contribute to the construction of community development by reducing threats to human security and promoting disarmament, with emphasis on those weapons that are especially cruel and cause indiscriminate effects, superfluous evils or unnecessary suffering to people and the environment. The above is achieved through:
1. Education to prevent accidents and sensitize people about the risks of weapons.
2. Support for survivors, their families and those of those fatalities; seeking to overcome the status of victim and the recovery of the full exercise of their rights.
3. The cleaning of areas contaminated by weapons and explosives of war, especially those that have been contaminated by antipersonnel mines; using the procedures and standards of humanitarian demining.
4. Advocacy, territorial management and monitoring compliance with International Humanitarian Law in relation to weapons and explosives of war.
5. The development of processes aimed at ensuring that Non-State Armed Actors abandon the use of weapons and explosives of war.
