The 1997 Mine Ban Treaty (also known as Ottawa Convention) comprehensively bans all antipersonnel mines, requires destruction of stockpiled mines within four years, requires destruction of mines already in the ground within ten years and urges extensive programs to assist the victims of landmines. As of today, the United States has not signed the treaty.
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For more information about this problem, please visit the following web sites:
International Campaign to Ban Landmines
Clear Landmines - click through to generate a donation for this worthy goal.
U.S. Campaign to Ban Mines - an organization of Physicians for Human Rights.
Viet Nam Veterans of America Foundation - campaign for a landmine free world. Includes good links plus a landmine factsheet.
Human Rights Watch - "Historic Landmine Ban Treaty Takes Effect - U.S. Plans for New Mine System Criticized" - press release from March 1999.
A German Mine Ban Site that includes is a great video that really shows the extent of the problem.
Landmine Pages - maintained by the International Committee of the Red Cross/Red Crescent.
First Run/Icarus Films - distributors of The Road from Kampuchea - the story of Cambodian ex-soldier and landmine survivor, Tun Channareth, co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for his work with landmine survivors and with the international anti-landmine campaign.
US Conference of Catholic Bishops - position paper on nuclear weapons control, landmines, arms trades (February 2002.)
The Mennonite Central Committee - a pacifist organization calling for a moratorium on cluster bombs.
Human Rights Watch - information on cluster bombs in Afghanistan since U.S. bombing began.
RAWA - Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan's site about the problem of cluster bombs in Afghanistan and much more.
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