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The Directorate for Comprehensive Action against Antipersonnel Mines is a dependency of the Administrative Department of the Presidency of the Republic, coordinated by the Office of the Minister for Post-Conflict, Human Rights and Security.

Scientific and Technical Committee

The Scientific and Technical Committee for Comprehensive Action against Antipersonnel Mines (AICMA) intended to provide a link between the Directorate for Comprehensive Action against Antipersonnel Mines (DAICMA), research groups and organizations whose work items are aimed at strengthening the work of the AICMA in Colombia.

The committee shall initial objectives:

  1. The creation of a bank of scientific projects to support the work of the Directorate for Comprehensive Action against Antipersonnel Mines.
  2. Scientific advice to the Directorate for Comprehensive Action against Antipersonnel Mines in the use of technologies and methodologies to support and strengthen their assigned tasks.
  3. The liaison between research groups and companies and the Directorate for Comprehensive Action against Antipersonnel Mines in projects that can support their work.
  4. And other than for the same purpose the Committee deems appropriate or as may be assigned by the Directorate for Comprehensive Action against Antipersonnel Mines.

COLOMBIAN CAMPAIGN AGAINST MINES

The Colombian Campaign Against Mines (CCCM) was born in 1999 as a citizen, voluntary and independent initiative. Since then a member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), a global network of organizations working to eradicate antipersonnel mines since 1991 and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 to boost the total ban 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.