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Leahy on U.S. Refusal To Join Landmine Treaty 1 Dec 2009 11:56 GMT
... by the State Department, to decline to join the international treaty to ban anti-personnel landmines, a weapon that kills or maims thousands of civilians each year. “This is a default of U.S. leadership and a detour from the ...
Landmines: facts, news and insight 1 Dec 2009 15:10 GMT
... in Colombia this week to review progress made on the 10-year-old Mine Ban Treaty. Landmines are known to have caused 5,197 casualties last year, a third of them children, says the Nobel Prize-winning International Campaign to ...
Maoists target cops, school buildings 1 Dec 2009 00:13 GMT
... Maoist rebels exploded landmines, including one targeting a police patrol party, ... in the state. The Maoists triggered a landmine explosion in Chatra district early on Monday, injuring ... Jatin Narwal. �There is no report of casualty,� Narwal told The Indian Express. The rebels ...
ICRC criticizes some countries signing Mine-Ban Convention for failing to fulfil obligations 1 Dec 2009 07:00 GMT
... started last Sunday in Cartagena, Colombia. Anti-personnel landmines and other explosive war remnants continue to ... Convention is to end the suffering and casualties caused by anti-personnel mines. It is important ...
Sri Lanka releases camp detainees 1 Dec 2009 07:05 GMT
... detainees [abstract] => Thousands of Sri Lankan civilians have been released from state-run camps, an ... to screen them for rebels and clear landmines from their villages. Officials say they will not ...
Sri Lanka's camp inmates set free: official 1 Dec 2009 06:17 GMT
... AFP/File – Sri Lankan war-displaced civilians seen at a camp in Vavuniya on ... to screen them for rebels and clear landmines from their villages. Officials say they will not ...
Sri Lanka`s camp inmates set free: Official 1 Dec 2009 09:06 GMT
... Colombo: Thousands of Sri Lankan civilians who have been held in state-run camps ... to screen them for rebels and clear landmines from their villages. Officials say they will not ...
Bacteria make light work of detecting landmines 30 Nov 2009 18:44 GMT
... Bacteria make light work of detecting landmines Danger: There were more than 73,000 landmine casualties between 1999 and 2008 Bacteria modified to glow green in the presence of explosives ...
US policy stays despite mine-ban review 30 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
... director of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, condemned the US position. ''We cannot understand ... Armed Forces of Colombia). Mary Waheram, of Human Rights Watch, said the guerilla movement was ''one ...
Summit on a mine-free world opens in Colombia 30 Nov 2009 16:50 GMT
... push to free the world of anti-personnel landmines gained steam Monday in Colombia as representatives ... between 1990 and 2009 in Colombia alone. Civilians made up 35 per cent of the ... countries, according to the German organization Action Landmine.de. The treaty, which was signed in Ottawa, ...
United States Leading the World in Mine Games 30 Nov 2009 17:53 GMT
... address the harmful effects of indiscriminately used landmines on civilians. We are proud to be a world ... a significant contribution toward reducing the annual landmine casualty rate from an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 ...
Press Releases: The United States is a World Leader in Humanitarian Mine Action 30 Nov 2009 23:40 GMT
... address the harmful effects of indiscriminately used landmines on civilians. We are proud to be a world ... a significant contribution toward reducing the annual landmine casualty rate from an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 ...
"Leaky" Leahy slams Obama policy 30 Nov 2009 15:24 GMT
... joining the international treaty to ban anti-personnel landmines. "This is a default of U.S. leadership ... addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director ...
'Leaky' Leahy slams Obama policy 30 Nov 2009 15:33 GMT
... joining the international treaty to ban anti-personnel landmines. "This is a default of U.S. leadership ... addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director ...
Wives pray for poll officials in Jharkhand 30 Nov 2009 12:32 GMT
... assembly polls Wednesday are praying for their safety. Although authorities have promised a violence free ... We did not board any vehicle fearing landmines,' an official assigned to conduct the election ...

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