Silent Killers Episode 9: The Mine Ban Treaty with a Focus on the Arab Region
Silent Killers is a special series Podcast in collaboration between ICBL and David Peck, an activist, speaker, and filmmaker, who’s recent documentary Broken Courage highlights the lived experiences of landmine survivors in Cambodia. Through this collaboration, ICBL hopes to amplify the voices of survivors, advocates, and change makers, and to reignite a global movement rooted in justice, empathy, and the belief that no one should fear the ground beneath their feet.
Episode 9: The Mine Ban Treaty with a Focus on the Arab Region
Available on Monday 24 November at 9 AM CEST on ICBL YouTube Channel, Spotify and Apple Podcasts
In this episode, we sit down with humanitarian leader Ayman Sorour for a deeply personal and quietly powerful conversation. Ayman reflects on the moments of tragedy he’s witnessed in the field, the losses that stay with you, and the unexpected ways individual acts—small, steady, imperfect—can bend the world toward something better. Together, we explore how impact is built one choice at a time, and why every gesture of care matters more than we think.
Ayman Sorour is founding executive director of Protection Against Armaments and Consequences, a NGO that works on humanitarian disarmament in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) including landmines, cluster munitions, human rights, killer robots, the convention on conventional weapons (CCW).
He has been conducting research for the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines-Cluster Munition Coalition (ICBL-CMC) on the MENA region since 2000. Sorour wrote and contributed to many publications on law, human rights, landmines, and cluster munitions since 1995. He’s a board member of the governing board of the ICBL-CMC and the African Center for Democracy and Human Rights Studies in Banjul, the Gambia. Sorour holds a BA in Law from Cairo University, human rights diploma from the International Institute for Human Rights (Strasbourg, France), senior mine action managers training from James Madison University (USA).
He speaks Arabic, English, and French.
