Friday, 13 November 2009 11th annual Landmine Monitor Report A new report finds significant progress has been made in eradicating antipersonnel landmines since the Mine Ban Treaty came into force 10 years ago. The International Campaign to Ban Landmines has issued its 11th annual Landmine Monitor Report showing the use, production and stockpiling of these weapons has gone down dramatically. ...<< MORE >>

16th October 2009, Daejeon, Republic of Korea During the 60th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) held in Daejeon, Korea, the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) and the Mineseeker Foundation announced a collaborative effort in the field of landmine stand-off detection using both Space and Airborne systems integrating remote-sensing, telecommunication and geo-localisation technologies. A preliminary concept of this integrated application was elaborated by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), in collaboration with the Mineseeker Foundation (MF). The IAF has ...<< MORE >>

New York – Colombia, Norway, Switzerland and civil society representatives called today upon world leaders to fully support the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention and to rally behind the goal of a mine-free world. The call for action was made during a meeting at the United Nations in New York. The meeting is one of the events leading up to The Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World the name given to the Second Review Conference of ...<< MORE >>

ALGIERS — The Algerian army in September destroyed 5,163 landmines laid by French troops along the country’s eastern and western borders, the APS news agency said. The weapons were part of a total of 415,829 mines destroyed by the army in a latest operation by September 30, according to APS. The land mines date back to Algeria’s war of liberation from French rule in 1954-62. Since 1962, the army has destroyed ...<< MORE >>

You can submit your vote here! http://www.project10tothe100.com/submit.html?id=T08 Google’s 10^100 finally open for voting October 5, 2009 by tomjd Just over a year ago Google announced 10 to the 100th. Timed to celebrate their 10th anniversary this competition called on people to “suggest a unique idea that would help as many people as possible.” They were going to sort and prioritize ...<< MORE >>

September 22, 2009(Read more about the Heart & Sole tour on Fred Hatman's "SA-positive Blog" http://www.fredhatman.co.za) South African rock musician Toni Rowland has pledged her support for Geoff “Heartman” Brink’s trans-South Africa unicycle odyssey, which has previously been documented here and here. Toni Rowland: totally behind Heartman's mad unicycle marathon Our Geoff is hard in training to undertake the approximately 1,400 kilometre stretch on one wheel later ...<< MORE >>

Remnants of war Dawn Editorial Monday, 21 Sep, 2009 addthis_pub = 'dawnadmin'; addthis_logo = 'http://65.175.69.196/styles/default/beta/images/logo.jpg'; addthis_logo_background = 'FFFFFF'; addthis_logo_color = '338DCC'; addthis_brand = 'DAWN.COM'; addthis_options = 'twitter,google, digg, delicious, myspace, favorites, ...<< MORE >>

Source: International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) Date: 09 Sep 2009 Regional meeting on landmines opens today in Pretoria Pretoria, 9 September 2009 -- African Union members must step up their efforts towards ridding the continent of landmines and fully respecting the rights of landmine survivors, said the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), 1997 Nobel Peace Laureate, today at the opening of a regional ...<< MORE >>

Monday, September 07, 2009 Landmine survivors still have not found what they're looking for Photo: Landmine survivor, Prak Cheat, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.Landmine survivors still have not found what they’re looking for, according to a new report called “Voices from the Ground.”The 272-page report – issued by Handicap International and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) is the first such report to actively engage survivors of landmines and ...<< MORE >>

Thursday, 03 September 2009 11:03 Katharina WeckerColumbia Reprtshttp://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/5729-farc-build-increasingly-sophisticated-landmines-santos.html 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 of illicit crops and of landmines overlap more and more. That means they use the mines to protect the coca fields," Santos said. The Colombian representative believes that the "ETA and the ...<< MORE >>