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Buoyed by successful global initiatives to ban landmines and create an international criminal court, a coalition of NGOs plans to launch a worldwide campaign seeking support for ''new and innovative sources of financing'' to help eradicate hunger and poverty. ''The idea is to copy the successful global processes that resulted in the convention to ban landmines, and also the statute to create the International Criminal Court (ICC),'' says Katarina Sehm Patomaki of the Helsinki-based Network Institute for Global Democratisation (NIGD).