The Sri Lanka Campaign to Ban Landmines (SLCBL) met with its youth wing today, and greeted three youth campaigners (Nimaya Dahanayake, Sinthuya Thurairaya and Adithya Ramanitharan) leaving for Switzerland to attend the Mine Action Fellows Forum during the 10th Meeting of the State Parties (10 MSP) of the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) from the 29th of August to the 2nd of September 2022. The 10MSP of the CCM will be held at the United Nations Office in Geneva.
The previously held Mine Action Fellows Forum saw the participation of Nillasi Liyanage during the 16th MSP of the Mine Ban Treaty (MBT) which was held in Austria (2017) and 4th Review Conference of the MBT which was held in Norway (2019). Sinthuya Thurairaya and Sindhu Ratnarajan attended the 4th Review Conference of the MBT which was held in Norway in 2019. The Mine Action Fellows Forum is organized by the Mines Action Canada (MAC).
Front row from the left: Nimaya Dahanayake, Sinthuya Thurairaya and Adithya Ramanitharan. Back row from the left: Nillasi Liyanage, Vidya Abhayagunawardena (Coordinator SLCBL) and Sindhu Ratnarajan.