Information and Web Links

• International Campaign to Ban Landmines
• Landmine Awareness Education Project - This site contains loads of land mine awareness education/campaign materials developed for and in different countries.
• Landmine Survivors Network (LSN) - A non-profit organisation helping the hundred and thousands of landmine victims throughout the world, and to prevent new ones.
• Landmines Section on AlertNet
• Landmine information at OneWorld
• Landmine information at Global issues
• The Global Landmine Crisis at Canadian SAFELANE - A lot of background information about landmines, the current legal status and what people are doing about it.
• Landmine bibliography (Lawrence Livermore)
• The Landmine campaign at BOES
• Adopt-A-Minefield - a campaign of the United Nations Association of the USA, which engages individuals, community groups, and businesses in the United Nations effort to resolve the global landmine crisis.
• Mines Action Canada - Provides in-depth info on country campaigns of the ICBL and other NGOs working to ban landmines.
• Reality Clock - Real-time statistics on landmine casualties.
• Demining Information By Country (James Madison University)

Articles and Analysis

• A Child Rights Guide to the 1996 Mines Protocol
• Human Rights Watch World Report 2001 - Arms Division (Anti-Personnel Landmines, Conventional, Chemical, Biological Weapons, Mechanisms of Arms Control, Weapons and the Conduct of War)
• Overview 1999: Landmines must be stopped (International Committee of the Red Cross)
• Anti-personnel Landmines - Friend or Foe? A study of the military use and effectiveness of anti-personnel mines (International Committee of the Red Cross) (March 1996)
• Global Progress on Banning Landmines (Human Rights Watch) (September 2000)
• Landmine Monitor Report 2000 (Human Rights Watch) (August 2000)
• Landmine Monitor Report 1999 Toward a Mine-Free World: Executive Summary
• Landmines - A scourge on children by Angela Hawke (UNICEF)
• Statement of the Second General Meeting of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (Maputo, Mozambique May 1999)
• Guidelines for the Care and Rehabilitation of Survivors (International Campaign to Ban Landmines Working Group on Victim Assistance)
• United Nations Policy Development and Coordination on Landmines
• Direct & Indirect effects of Landmines on Public Health (Humanitarian Demining)
• Guerilla Warfare and Land Mine Casualties Remain Inseparable (US Foreign Military Studies Office)
• Landmine Monitor Report 1999: Toward a Mine-Free World (ICBL)
• Landmines and measures to eliminate them by Jody Williams (International Review of the Red Cross) (August 1995)
• Landmines - A Pentagon Necessity... An International Horror (The Engaged Buddhist-Dharma Page) (Includes links to other sites)
• Landmines Must Be Stopped
• Landmines - Trail of Terror (New Internationalist Magazine) 1997
• Toward a global ban on landmines by Anita Parlow (International Review of the Red Cross) (August 1995)

International Law and Standards

• Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, 18 September 1997 (Entry into force of the Convention: 1 March 1999, in accordance with article 17 (1) of the Convention)
• Signatures, Ratifications/Accessions to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on their Destruction, 18 September 1997
• 1997 Mine Ban Treaty - 137 Signatories/Accession and 100 Ratifications (As of 27 July 2000) (Human Rights Watch) (July 2000)
• United Nations Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (Geneva 10 October 1980)
• An international ban on anti-personnel mines History and negotiation of the "Ottawa treaty" by Stuart Maslen and Peter Herby in International Review of the Red Cross no 325 (Dec 1998) p 693-713

Country/Region Specific Information

• Landmine map of Afghanistan
• The Silent Menace: Landmines in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Ian Woodmansey and Louis Maresca (International Committee of the Red Cross) (1998)
• Cambodia's landmine victims (BBC) (November 13, 2003)
• Canada-EU Statement on Small Arms and Anti-Personnel Mines
• Egypt, Others Urged To Sign Mine Ban Treaty (The Africa Policy Information Center (APIC)) (April 9, 2000)
• Nobel Peace Laureate to Travel to Kosovo to Highlight Landmine Crisis (By Jody Williams/Mary Wareham) (June 25, 1999)
• Landmines in Mozambique: After the Floods (The Africa Policy Information Center (APIC)) (April 9, 2000)
• Thailand leads SE Asia in ratifying landmine treaty
• US Campaign to Ban Landmines
• The United States and Anti-Personnel Mines - 2001 (Human Rights Watch Fact Sheet)
• United States Policy
• US also Bears Responsibility for Landmine Crisis (Human Rights Watch) (March 5, 2001)
• Clinton's Landmine Legacy (Human Rights Watch) (June 2000)
• New U.S. Mines Would Violate Treaty (Human Rights Watch) (April 7, 2000)

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