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AFGHANISTAN: Landmines, UXO kill, maim hundreds in 2007

Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and abandoned explosive ordnance (AXO) killed 143 and wounded 438 people in different parts of Afghanistan in 2007, according to UN Mine Action Centre for Afghanistan (UNMACA) statistics. (IRIN, 21 January 2008)

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=76344

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Campaign Against Landmines (CALM)

CALM is an NGO in New Zealand primarily focussed on landmines and Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) we accept the responsibility for keeping the public, other NGOs, politicians and Government Departments aware of the problems these inhumane weapons create and the steps necessary to provide solutions.

http://www.calm.org.nz/

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Geneva Call

Geneva Call is a new impartial international humanitarian organisation dedicated to engaging Non-State Actors (NSAs) - i.e. armed groups operating outside of government control - in a landmine ban and to respect humanitarian norms. Geneva Call was launched in March 2000 by members of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). Its creation arose from the need to address the involvement of NSAs in the landmine problem and to provide a mechanism to hold such groups accountable for their commitments.

http://www.genevacall.org/home.htm

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International Campaign to Ban Landmines

International Campaign to Ban Landmines is a network of more than 1.200 non-governmental organizations in 60 countries, working for a global ban on Landmines. The ICBL brings together over 1,300 human rights, humanitarian, children, peace, disability, veterans, medical, humanitarian mine action, development, arms control, religious, environmental and women's groups in over 90 countries who work locally, nationally regionally, and internationally to ban antipersonnel (AP) mines.

http://www.icbl.org/

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Landmine Monitor Report 2000: Toward a Mine-Free World

The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) has recently placed online the full text of their annual report, which monitors "implementation of and compliance with the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty" and assesses efforts of the international community to resolve the landmine crisis. Although it notes that antipersonnel mines continue to be laid, the report also reveals that nearly three-quarters of the world's nations have signed the treaty, that the number of landmine producers has drastically dropped, and that trade in landmines has almost completely halted. The full text of the 1,100-page report, along with an executive summary, translated country reports, and key findings are available at the ICBL site.

http://www.icbl.org/lm/2000/

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Landmine Monitor Report 2004

ICBL, Worldwide, Thursday 18 November 2004. Since the international treaty prohibiting antipersonnel landmines took effect five years ago, use of the weapon around the world has fallen dramatically, global funding for mine action programs has increased more than 80 percent, more than 1,100 square kilometers of land has been cleared, and the number of new mine victims each year has decreased markedly, according to a 1,300-page report by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) released today.

http://www.icbl.org/lm/2004/

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The Arms Trade Treaty

Control Arms website. The international community must adopt a global Arms Trade Treaty in time for the next UN arms conference in 2006. A global Arms Trade Treaty is desperately needed now. It would create legally binding arms controls and ensure that all governments control arms to the same basic international standards. In short, it would help stop weapons falling into the hands of indiscriminate killers and human rights abusers. But the world's governments are taking little or no action to achieve this. Responsibility for the bloodshed and misery caused by the absence of effective arms controls stops directly at their doors. The success of the international campaigns to ban landmines, cancel third world debt and establish an international criminal court proved that many governments do take notice of public opinion. The Control Arms campaign could be just as influential in pushing governments to adopt an Arms Trade Treaty - but only if enough people join us.

http://www.controlarms.org/the_issues/whats_wanted.htm

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