Program Enters Fifth Year of Sowing Success for Women in Kenya

The BOMA Project, a Vermont-based nonprofit that helps poor women start small, sustainable businesses in their rural villages in Northern Kenya, is marking an important milestone as its signature program enters its...

Orvis, Scientific Anglers Ranked Top Brands in U.S. for Fly Rods, Flies and L...

Source: Midcurrent.comEvery year Southwick Associates, an outdoors research firm, surveys a large sample of U.S. anglers to gather data on which fishing product brands are most preferred. They just announced the...

World's Lightest Fly Rod Built With Cutting Edge Technology

See the video that accompanies this release here: http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=825658 The Orvis Company's new ZG Helios fly rod series was named "Best of the Best" for 2008 by Field & Stream...

Young & Rubicam Creates Chilling, Effective Radio Spot to Support Landmine Vi...

Young & Rubicam, one of the world's leading marketing and communications agencies, has created a chilling, new radio spot to support Clear Path International's work with landmine survivors in Vietnam,...

Leahy-Feinstein Bill to Limit use and Sale of Cluster Bombs

Clear Path International has announced it supports a bill to be introduced by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and Diane Feinstein (D-California) that would restrict the use of cluster bombs by the United...

CPI Vietnam: 88 New Victims of Bombs, Landmines and other Munitions in 2006

More than three decades since the end of the war in Vietnam, accidents from landmines and unexploded bombs still injure and kill innocent civilians at an alarming rate.  As 2006 draws to a close, Clear Path...

Judy Collins to Perform War Victim Benefit Concert in Vermont

The legendary Judy Collins is set to perform a benefit concert in Dorset, Vermont on December 17th at the Dorset Playhouse to aid civilian victims of war in Vietnam, Cambodia and along the Thailand - Myanmar border.

Turning Frisbees into Landmines

To help raise awareness of the landmine crisis worldwide, and the work of Clear Path International, Rapp Collins of Singapore created frisbees that look like landmines and volunteers are tossing them around the city.

Some Serious Weed: Afghan marijuana plants too tough for military

Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy -- almost impenetrable forests of 10-foot-high marijuana plants

United States Helps to Clear Lebanon of Explosive Remnants of War

<q>The United States is committed to reducing the risk to Lebanese civilians posed by explosive remnants of war. From 1998 to the recent conflict, the inter-agency U.S. Humanitarian Mine Action Program invested more than $17 million dollars to rid Lebanon of...

Congress ready to celebrate end-of-war party

Politicians have $20 million set aside, despite poor news out of Iraq

Vietnam, US Set New Tone on Agent Orange

In recent months, the two countries have started to discuss how to deal with environmental and health effects of the toxic carcinogen, code-named "agent orange".

Report from the Thailand - Myanmar Border

For the residents of Care Villa a normal day consists of waking up early, of struggling to get dressed, of being fed, of needing help at the toilet, of finding the way on the touch, of asking a friend to scratch...

Microsoft Turns Landmines into Flowers

Looks like the landmine movement will soon reach the desktop. Microsoft is changing the game MINESWEEPER to placate those who thought the game was insensitive to landmine plagued communities worldwide. With the...

List of major attacks in Afghanistan Since the Fall of the Taliban in 2001

"Major suicide attacks in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001"
 

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