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The GICHD has an observer status to the States Parties meetings taking place in the framework of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). The Centre provides independent technical input into international efforts to minimise human suffering caused by landmines, booby traps and other devices and explosive remnants of war (ERW), which are covered by the on-going work of the CCW and the Group of Governmental Experts. The Centre focuses on the humanitarian impact of certain type of weapons – particularly of cluster munitions - and on offering technical advisory services, whenever suitable. At the Meeting of Experts of the High Contracting Parties to CCW Protocol V, in July 2008, the GICHD launched the study Mine Action and the Implementation of CCW Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War PDF 1.8MB. The study is intended to give guidance in a complex area of endeavour based on best practice and lessons from the last 15 years of mine action. The GICHD is administering the CCW Sponsorship Programme, as mandated by the High Contracting Parties at the CCW Third Review Conference in November 2006. |
