Anti-landmine activists see hope for US shift
Campaigners to halt the use of landmines hope finally to bring the United States under President Barack Obama into the fold of countries that have banned a weapon that maims…
Campaigners to halt the use of landmines hope finally to bring the United States under President Barack Obama into the fold of countries that have banned a weapon that maims…
Colombian officials say three adults have been killed and two children wounded in two related anti-personnel mine blasts in the country’s northwest. The top security official in the town of…
Human Rights Watch said Thursday that the United States should join the Mine Ban Treaty and participate in a landmark international meeting regarding the banning of antipersonnel mines. The Second…
With over 8,000 victims between 1990 and August 2009, Colombia holds the record for highest number of victims from land mines in the world, according to the country’s authorities. More…
The FARC are building increasingly sophisticated landmines, Colombia’s Vice President Francisco Santos said. The FARC use “increasingly sophisticated and undetectable [landmines]. And a very serious problem is that the locations…