Landmine Survivors Network

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Thus Russia has shown its readiness to solve the landmine problem.

Livestock are understood regularly to be maimed or killed in landmine incidents.

Table 2. Recommended awards for claims for personal injuries resulting from landmine explosions

There was also an ongoing need to meet the needs of landmine survivors.

We call upon the international community to provide the necessary assistance to landmine clearance operations, as well as to the rehabilitation of the victims and their social and economic integration into the landmine affected countries.

Welcoming the efforts of the Community to make southern Africa a landmine free zone,

Noting the continued efforts of the Community to make Southern Africa a landmine free zone,

The hallmark of the landmine process was the way it combined field experience and political action.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan had held a landmine seminar in Tokyo in March 2004.

Peer support is a fundamental strategy in the rehabilitation of landmine survivors in Afghanistan, Bosnia, El Salvador and Vietnam.

The UNMEE Mine Action Coordination Centre continued to monitor closely the landmine and unexploded ordnance threat in all sectors.

India has set up a number of camps for the fitting of artificial limbs to landmine victims in Afghanistan.

According to Landmine Monitor 2006, Colombia had 1,110 victims last year, followed by Cambodia with 875 and Afghanistan with 848.

Another landmine, close to one of the towers and also to the local school, killed a 17 year old Awá boy .

The Summit featured the largest ever gathering of representatives of non governmental organizations with an interest in the global landmine problem.

In that context, Jordan stresses the need for the international community to mobilize resources and provide necessary assistance for landmine clearance operations as well as for the rehabilitation of landmine victims, including their social and economic reintegration, so that Member States can live up to their obligations under the Convention.

We believe that the protocol offers the best possible solution to the landmine problem and is realistic from the viewpoint of effective implementation.

Most included a measure of disarmament, demobilization or reintegration, while landmine clearance remained essential for the revival of the economy in war torn countries.

The Mission also acknowledges a 1.7 million donation of equipment from the Government of Japan, including vehicles, tents and landmine detection devices, delivered in Mombassa in October.

On the Sri Lanka MTR, some delegates commended the work of UNICEF with vulnerable populations, particularly child soldiers, and on landmine awareness in the conflict affected areas.

And there's about 6,000 people last year that walked on a landmine, but worldwide last year, almost 1.9 million died from tuberculosis as a first cause of infection.

In the area of coordination, inter agency assessment missions to Senegal and Uganda had led both countries to set up programmes to deal with the landmine problem coherently.

Canada had contributed in excess of 200 million to mine action since the Ottawa Convention had entered into force in 1999, mostly from the dedicated Canadian Landmine Fund.

Its goals were to decrease the risk of death or injury from landmine accidents and to rehabilitate the demined areas in order to alleviate poverty and promote development for local communities.

NATO has also completed various antipersonnel landmine destruction projects in Albania, Republic of Moldova, Tajikistan and the Ukraine and the destruction of small arms and light weapons in Serbia and Montenegro.

Moreover, Thailand believed that landmine victims should be treated as assets rather than liabilities and allocated resources to provide victim assistance in the forms of hospital improvement and social reintegration programmes.

In unwinding QE, Bernanke must avoid another landmine, namely an unwelcome collapse in asset prices. Many savvy Wall Street traders are convinced that QE is just the old Greenspan put on steroids.

One of my colleagues at the Times did a great story about soldiers in Iraq who could look down a street and detect somehow whether there was an IED, a landmine, in the street.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, UNICEF has supported the integration of small arms and light weapons awareness into the national school based landmine risk education programme, its training for teachers and its peer education programmes.

(4) Many of the 24 States Parties that have reported the responsibility for significant numbers of landmine survivors have developed concrete objectives to guide our assistance efforts between now and the Convention's Second Review Conference in 2009.

During this period, women accounted for 6 per cent of all deaths in and outside combat and forced disappearances, 10 per cent of tortures, 11 per cent of all landmine related deaths and 18 per cent of kidnappings.

We recognize the urgency required in fulfilling our obligations under the Convention and our responsibilities to mine affected communities, to landmine survivors and to future generations to whom we have promised a world free of anti personnel mines.

This bell is made from metal from a defused landmine, from the killing fields of Pol Pot one of the most evil regimes in human history where people are now beginning to put their lives back together after the regime has crumbled.

In that respect, we would like to thank the United States and the European Union for their support for the landmine impact survey carried out in Armenia in 2005 by the United Nations Development Programme, in cooperation with the Ministry of Defence of Armenia.

China closely follows the Ottawa process and has been enhancing exchanges and cooperation with the States parties to the Convention We stand ready to further expand our cooperation with the States parties to the Convention, in order to contribute to the early elimination of landmine problems.

The First Review Conference of the Convention would be held the following month in Nairobi Norway's priorities at the Conference would be to promote the intensification and acceleration of mine clearance efforts, at the same time as adequately ensuring effective care, rehabilitation and reintegration of landmine victims.

The Ethiopian Mine Action Office, established with the mandate of carrying out humanitarian demining and related activities, had overseen the clearance of 17.9 million square metres of land, the destruction of 18,330 landmines and items of unexploded ordnance, and the provision of landmine risk education to 2,388,084 people.

Welcoming the entry into force, on 1 March 1999, of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, and noting with satisfaction the work undertaken to implement the Convention and the substantial progress made towards addressing the global landmine problem,

Welcoming the entry into force, on 1 March 1999, of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, and noting with satisfaction the work undertaken to implement the Convention and the substantial progress made towards addressing the global landmine problem,

Welcoming the entry into force on 1 March 1999 of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti personnel Mines and on Their Destruction,See CD 1478. and noting with satisfaction the work undertaken to implement the Convention and the substantial progress made towards addressing the global landmine problem,

Welcoming the entry into force, on 1 March 1999, of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti personnel Mines and on Their Destruction,See CD 1478. and noting with satisfaction the work undertaken to implement the Convention and the substantial progress made towards addressing the global landmine problem,

Welcoming the entry into force on 1 March 1999 of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti personnel Mines and on Their Destruction,See CD 1478. and noting with satisfaction the work undertaken to implement the Convention and the substantial progress made towards addressing the global landmine problem,