The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), launched in 1992 by Human Rights Watch and five other nongovernmental organizations, brought together over 1,400 human rights, humanitarian ...

We don’t believe that having the option to use them will make populations any safer. Quite the opposite — using landmines on ...

As the dark clouds of conflict swirl across the globe, from Gaza to Ukraine and beyond, humanity is entering the so-called third era of warfare. After the invention of gunpowder, then nuclear ...

Four European NATO members announced on Tuesday they will withdraw from the Mine Ban Treaty, marking the first time any ...

Anti-personnel mines and explosive remnants of war killed or wounded 1,003 people in Myanmar in 2023, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) said on Wednesday. There were 933 landmine ...

The news last week that Poland and the three Baltic nations are withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention banning member nations ...

Since the 1980s, according to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) website (Landmine Monitor, Country Profile, October18 2010) “there were a total of 21,993 landmine casualties, ...

BEN Wallace has urged Britain to withdraw from a global landmines ban championed by Princess Diana. The former Tory defence secretary claimed the weapons were vital to fend off Russia. Britain ...

In the years since the fall of Saigon, over 40,000 Vietnamese have been killed or injured by landmines and unexploded ordnance (explosives) left behind from that conflict. Every 22 minutes ...

Colombian government and Marxist oriented guerrillas jointly announced an agreement to remove landmines and other explosives ... it intends to join the Mine Ban Treaty in the future and will ...