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 >>

GENEVA (Reuters) - Many countries which have signed the 1999 treaty banning landmines are failing in their obligation to help rehabilitate people wounded by the weapons, according to a report issued on Wednesday. The report, by the Brussels-based NGO Handicap International, said two thirds of land mine victims in 25 countries who had lost limbs or suffered other serious injuries felt their governments were doing little to help them. "It is not enough ...<< MORE >>

8/29/09 6:17 PM Luanda – The civil society should act more in favour of victims of landmines, and contribute to their integration into the labour market. This point of view was defended this Saturday by the chairperson of the Angolan Association of Disabled Ex-soldiers (AMMIGA), Domingos Martins Ngola, who refered that the society must give the first step to drive the state into financing these projects. ...<< MORE >>

By Aubrey Belford in Baghdad | August 24, 2009 Article from: Agence France-Presse RADIOACTIVE wreckage and tens of millions of landmines still blight Iraq after decades of war and the deadly violence that engulfed the nation after the 2003 invasion, the environment minister says. Narmin Othman Hasan said a lack of funding and Iraq's fragile security situation was hampering efforts to clean up contaminated sites ...<< MORE >>

Fundraises to assist blind children in Afghanistan The students at the Kabul Blind School in Afghanistan are so appreciative of the help from Canadians and greeted Eric Rajah of A Better World with a flower. ...<< MORE >>

General Sarath Fonseka says IDPs cannot be resettled haphazardly and it should be done in a methodical manner.(By Walter Jayawardhana)General Sarath Fonseka said, in Kandy, the Internally Displaced persons in welfare centers run by the government cannot be easily resettled in their villages haphazardly but in a very methodical manner due to very many factors important for the benefit of them as well as for the country. “Some people ...<< MORE >>

Agencia AngoloPress 8/17/09 4:43 PMhttp://www.portalangop.co.ao/motix/en_us/noticias/politica/2009/7/34/Over-road-cleared-off-landmines,69e63b19-ff14-47f6-b45a-c861a6e552f5.html Kuito - At least 94 kilometres of road previously believed to be infested with landmines in the central Bié province were cleared out during the first half of this year, by the de-mining company "Cassamba Minas Lda", operating in the region. Speaking Monday to Angop, the "Cassamba Minas Lda" supervisor in Bié province, Manuel Monico, underlined that the project covered the districts of Kuito, ...<< MORE >>