Our House Becomes an Official Member of the ICBL-CMC, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Our House joins Nobel Peace Prize–linked coalition advancing global humanitarian disarmament efforts.
On 10 February 2026, Our House, a Belarusian human rights organisation in exile, has officially been accepted as a member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines – Cluster Munition Coalition (ICBL-CMC) – a global civil society campaign working for a world free of landmines and cluster munitions. The coalition brings together organisations from around the world advocating for the protection of civilians and for the strengthening of humanitarian norms that limit the use of weapons causing long-term harm to civilian populations. The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), which forms the core of this coalition, is a co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of its global efforts to ban anti-personnel mines.
The coalition works to prevent the use, production and transfer of anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions, to support international treaties aimed at banning these weapons, and to promote assistance for victims and mine-affected communities. At a time when the region is witnessing a worrying trend of states reconsidering or withdrawing from humanitarian conventions regulating such weapons, participation in international advocacy networks becomes especially important for civil society organisations seeking to keep humanitarian principles at the centre of public discussion.
This marks an important step for Our House and represents the second international Nobel Peace Prize–linked coalition of which our organisation is a member. The first is the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) – the global initiative advocating for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons, which received the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for highlighting the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons and advancing the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
By joining both ICBL-CMC and ICAN, Our House strengthens its participation in global humanitarian and peacebuilding initiatives aimed at reducing threats to civilian populations and preventing escalation of military risks in our region. We see this as an important recognition of our work and as a responsibility to continue contributing to international dialogue on human security, disarmament, and the protection of human rights.
We congratulate our organisation and all our activists on this important international recognition and on joining the ranks of two global coalitions connected to Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
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