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 ...

Col Satish Singh Lalotra ‘The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb, and land which anti-personal landmines ...

Landmines and unexploded munitions claimed more victims in Myanmar than in any other country last year, a monitor said on Wednesday, warning the true toll could be double or triple its estimate of ...

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

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

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 ...

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

The Vietnam war ended over 25 years ago, but for many Vietnamese, the realities of the war still linger. In the years since the fall of Saigon, over 40,000 Vietnamese have been killed or injured ...

Since independence in 1948, the island nation of Sri Lanka has faced two types of internally originated human destruction and debacle, which were the Southern insurgencies (in 1971 and 1988) and the ...

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 ...

Colombian government and Marxist oriented guerrillas jointly announced an agreement to remove landmines and other explosives from the battlefield in a sign of progress in their two-year-old peace ...