US Marines launch offensive in Afghanistan

Three days after President Barak Obama announced that he was sending 30,000 Marine Corps reinforcements to Afghanistan, US Marines already in-country launched a new offensive aimed at Taliban supply and...

Order Fries, Get Ketchup, Ban Landmines

" Shown in photos above and below, a ketchup packet designed by the advertising agency Publicis Mojo for the New Zealand Campaign Against Landmines is clever, though I doubt it will end the use of landmines. What’s next? I fully expect the concept to be adopted soon by...

US Out of Step on Cluster Bomb Ban

A report "Banning Cluster Munitions:  Government Policy and Practice" released jointly by Human Rights Watch, Landmine Action and Landmine Monitor points out that 96 signatories to the Convention on...

Lost the legs while helping his parents

It took just one wrong step - and Chan Theth (14) was yet another person on the long list of mine victims in Cambodia. This article has been contributed by Cambodia TalesThis is the story of a young boy who wanted...

Rats!

Many of us have an aversion to rats while they are revered in some cultures.  Now even those who are sworn enemy of these rodents have to modify our stance.  The African pouched rat is currently being...

Watch List on Children and Armed Conflict - Sri Lanka report

April 14, 2008, New York- There is virtually no safety for children in Sri Lanka as the brutal armed conflict there escalates. Every day the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE), the Government armed forces, and...

Landmine removal jeopardized by decreasing funding, new report says

In a new report, the The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) says that while 2005 saw a strong effort to clean up mined areas, funding for these efforts is dropping."The European Commission, United States and eight other major donors decreased their support for...

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