Mine Action News - archive
December '09
- Mine Ban Convention: Despite progress, victim assistance falls short
- RWANDA and ZAMBIA now mine free
- AUSTRALIA: Statement on mine action
- UNICEF calls for universal ban of landmines
- Mine-free world: rats help save lives
- UN Chief: More countries should accede to Convention on Conventional Weapons
- RWANDA and ZAMBIA now mine-free
- GERMANY assists SRI LANKA in demining
- U.S. sends delegation to Ottawa Convention Second Review Conference
- Mines take terrible toll despite UN progress to eliminate them
- ANGOLA announces demining of Licua runway
- UK and FRANCE work together for worldwide arms-trade treaty
- Landmine deaths increase in TURKEY
- UN top official asks SRI LANKAN govt to speed up demining
- GERMANY assists SRI LANKA in demining
- IRAQ to launch landmine-clearing campaign
November '09
- LEBANON closer to signing land-mine-ban pact
- CROATIA: 36 landmine warning signs demolished
- CHINA's mine clearance training
- Two deminers injured in northern SRI LANKA
- Two Landmine Victims in Turkey Every Week
- Glowing bugs could find landmines
- NEW ZEALAND: GPS helps demining technology
- Era of hope for resettled families in SRI LANKA
- Nearly half of LEBANON's landmines cleared
- Former child soldier undoes past, one landmine at a time
- A mine-free SE EUROPE: Mission possible
- MOZAMBIQUE: The country that became a minefield
- MOZAMBIQUE: Demining, the Devil is in the Detail
- US donates $2.35 mil for demining activities in LEBANON
- SRI LANKA: UN supports demining process
- OSCE supports setting up demining unit in TAJIKISTAN
- UNHCR demining machines to arrive in SRI LANKA
- The dangers of unexploded landmines in SRI LANKA
October '09
- ANGOLAN minister witnesses launch of demining equipment
- MOZAMBIQUE: Help for landmine victims hard to come by
- SRI LANKA: More IDPs go home (link no longer active)
- Draft on assistance in mine action goes to UN General Assembly
- UN mine clearer dies in accident in CYPRUS
- AFGHANISTAN: Goats provide livelihood for landmine survivors
- SRI LANKA: Government accelerates de-mining in the North
- LAO PDR: UXO risk increases after tropical storm
- MOZAMBIQUE: Demining not a never-ending story
- SUDAN: Al Lafa returnees free from the danger of mines
- FALKLANDS: De-mining receives go-ahead with UK contract
- CHINA introduces new mine-sweeping device
- BELGIAN/RUSSIAN landmines giving way to new farms in MOZAMBIQUE
- US gov't to donate $2mil to demining MOZAMBIQUE
- Rap teaches CAMBODIAN youths dangers of landmines
- PAKISTAN: Red Cross/Red Crescent respond to needs as returns continue
- NIGERIA: 39 years after, civil war explosives found
- GUINEA-BISSAU: Mine-free farms for first time since 1974
- INDIA: Mined lives
- SRI LANKA: Demining in progress in the Rice Bowl
- SUDAN: Refreshing MRE in Southern Kordofan
- ANGOLA: Over 40 mil sq m demined in Benguela Province
- Demining project on the JORDANIAN-SYRIAN border
- ALBANIA free of landmines, UXO
- BOSNIA, CROATIA urged to step up mine clearance (link no longer active)
- Demining Project Office Team arrives in the FALKLANDS
- Rat demining agency up for innovation prize
- TAIWAN: President calls for demining to be completed by 2013
- SRI LANKA receives more foreign aid for landmine clearing operations in the north
- LEBANON: UNIFIL demines land for farmers
- Getting rid of dangerous weapons in NIGERIA
- ANGOLA: Over five million explosive devices removed in 13 years
- NIGERIA: Benue communities seek relocation over explosives
- SUDAN: Landmines threaten election and referendum processes
- IRAQ: Living with the threat of unexploded ordnance and landmines
- BURMA: Landmines halt refugee return
- 30 killed in AFGHANISTAN landmine blast
- Peace Day 2009: Mine action paving the way for peace and development
- SRI LANKA: Resettling 70% of IDPs govt's initial target
- SRI LANKA to resettle the IDPs first in the area west of A-9
- More 'combat enablers' AFGHAN-bound
- Shipping clothing to COLOMBIA'S landmine victims
- AFGHAN man faces danger to protect others
- UK commits to clear mines and rebuild lives in SRI LANKA
- SWISS will lead COLOMBIA int'l demining conference
- UAE demining efforts hailed in South LEBANON
September '09
- More international support for demining (link no longer active)
- SRI LANKA imports five more demining machines to expedite
- Third Continental Conference of African Experts on Landmines held
- Eliminating global arms trade crucial to security, sustainable development
- Remnants of VIETNAM War still scarring lives
- SRI LANKAN success on Omanthai-Welioya road
- SRI LANKA: Forthcoming monsoon could impede demining activities
- SENEGAL: One landmine gone, thousands of hectares gained
- US Pacific Command boosts demining in SRI LANKA
- DR CONGO: Local official hails UN's demining work as 'priceless'
- COLOMBIA's rebels step up a brutal tactic
- Landmine survivors call on governments to live up to their promises
- COLOMBIA wants former rebels to help clear mines
- INDIA: Combing Saranda for mines
- SRI LANKA imports machines to clear mines
- ANGOLA: Demining personnel training a priority (link no longer active)
- ANGOLA: Demining commission works with Parliament (link no longer active)
- CAMBODIAN deminers train, awaiting SUDAN's dry season
- Amputees bear lifelong cost of PAKISTAN'S conflict (link no longer active)
- SRI LANKA: Army Chief seeks international assistance for demining
- ANGOLA: Demining commission to implement statistics projects
- US contributing $6mil toward SRI LANKAN demining
- BELARUS, EU to hold talks on landmine destruction project
- Landmines in COLOMBIA: Cheap and lethal
- ANGOLA: Over 90 km of road cleared of landmines
- THAILAND: Unconventional landmine victims get new limbs
- ANGOLA: INAD destroys over 100 explosive devices
August '09
- AUSTRALIAN support for demining in SRI LANKA
- LEBANESE landmine victims turn to soccer
- Sixty years of the Geneva Conventions
- GAZA: Explosives, mines and white phosphorus clean-up operation
- GEORGIA/SOUTH OSSETIA: Lasting impact of conflict
- New AZERI 'Big Return' program to resettle IDPs (link no longer active)
- TAIWAN sponsors landmine survivor assistance program
- UK Supports mine clearance in SRI LANKA
- CAMBODIA: Gov't blocks meeting with "Miss Landmine" contestants
- Unexploded ordnance a lethal problem in VIETNAM
- 80 more INDIANS fly to SRI LANKA to clear landmines
- VIETNAM still faces landmine blight (link no longer active)
- US signs International Convention on Rights of Disabled
- Picking up the remnants of war in UGANDA - photo essay
- Survivors celebrate as BiH signs Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Study finds leftover bombs killed 10,500 in VIETNAM
- SUDAN: Malakal minefields still a challenge
- AFGHANISTAN: Saving historical heritage from landmines
- CAMBODIAN mine casualties rise in June
- Demining program in AFGHANISTAN
- UK firm wins award for mine-clearance technology
- INDIA aids SRI LANKA in mine clearance, resettlement
- KOSOVO bicycle tour to raise awareness and funds for mine clearance
- Women-only demining teams at work in SOUTH SUDAN
July '09
- Kidnappers free 16 AFGHAN demining workers
- Quick Reaction Force completes UXO clearance mission in TANZANIA
- One ton of UXO destroyed on TAIWAN
- SRI LANKAN gov't committed to resettle refugess in 6 months (already posted something similar) (link no longer active)
- Puntland, SOMALIA: Authorities and stakeholders review progress in implementing Deed of Commitment
- Clearing mines in AFGHANISTAN
- SUDAN: Demining not just a man's job
- SERBIA: River bed and river bank UXO Clearance Project Planned
- Violence delays mine clearing in AFGHANISTAN (link no longer active)
- SARMENIA: A decade's work to clear the minefields
June '09
- Awareness campaign aims to reduce danger from unexploded ordnance in CHAD
- Protection of civilians from explosive weapons
- Appeal for help to clear landmines in IRAQ
- SRI LANKA says demining completed in 90% of the north
- Law ratified on demining of minefields along SYRIAN border
- Before you throw that away...
- SRI LANKAN troops recover over 1.5 million landmines in north
- 52 CAMBODIAN Soldiers Join Demining Operations in Sudan
- SRI LANKA: A-9 highway to remain closed until landmines cleared
- SENEGAL: Fresh violence in Casamance
- Juanes asks Clinton for support for anti-landmine campaign
- TURKEY: Premier says Turkish military can clear minefields
- Unexploded bombs threaten reconstruction of GAZA
- SRI LANKA: Nearly 176,000 Mines Removed
- FLEMISH donate millions to demining in MOZAMBIQUE
- Planned demining of TURKEY/SYRIA border referred to court
- AZERBAIJAN: Nearly 25 Million Square Meters Demined in May
- IRAQ halts clearing landmines even as huge toll keeps rising
- US Wartime Bombs Still Killing in VIETNAM
- CNMI: 1000 lbs of WWII explosives detonated
- TURKEY: Divisive bill to clear mines on SYRIAN border passes
- From the Expert: How to Clear Mines
- IRAQ would need 'an army' to remove all landmines
- TAJIKISATAN seeks demining help from EU
- New anti-mine technology shows promise in ANGOLA
- JAPAN aids demining in SRI LANKA
- TURKEY: NATO demining more economical
- SCOTLAND: Landmine survivor runs marathons
- PAKISTAN: fear amid reports of mine-laying in Mingora
- TURKEY: PM denounces xenophobia over mine clearance
- A special process to resettle SRI LANKA'S IDPs
May '09
- SCOTLAND: Landmine charity founder wins Burns Award
- MOZAMBIQUE: Demining power line costs $1mil
- MAG steps up clearance efforts in SRI LANKA
- AFGHANISTAN: Community-based demining progresses
- ANGOLA asks for help in clearing landmines
- ZIMBABWE: Local company contracted to demine Gonarezhou
- MOZAMBIQUE: demining to begin in Maputo
- ANGOLA: Over 73 areas cleared of landmines
- CAMBODIA: Junkyard approach to demining
- NEPAL: Explosive Reminders of War
- SOUTHERN SUDAN: A garden with a difference
- ANGOLA: National meeting on demining
- ANGOLA: Over one million sq m cleared of landmines
- Demining in eastern SRI LANKA concluding
- US, IRAQI Army detonate weapons cache in Basra
- LAO PDR: Bomb clearance charity is thanked
- Professors, students build artificial legs for amputees in VIETNAM
- Situation of GAZA'S children still 'precarious'
- NEPALESE widow on compensation quest
- SRI LANKAN Supreme Court: Expedite demining for resettlement
- PHILIPPINES: Landmine Ban Draws House Support
- CAMBODIA: Explosive Harvest
- INDIA: Maoist Mine Traps in Saranda
- EU grants US$26m to ANGOLAN demining program
- The Anti-Personnel Mines Project (link no longer active)
April '09
- SRI LANKA: Demining east will end soon
- Giving back in CAMBODIA
- PAKISTANI children mistake bomb for toy, 12 killed
- Bangkok to celebrate Mine Ban Treaty's 10th Anniversary
- Casualties continue in VIETNAM
- UGANDA: Dangers of unexploded ordnance in north
- Army 'Multimode' Raygun to target IEDs, other ordnance
- Child landmine victim speaks out
- NIGERIA clears Biafra war ERW (link no longer active)
- Landmines still scar ANGOLA 7 years after peace
- US to donate $1.5m for munitions clearing in LEBANON
- Orphanage work was a revelation
- VIETNAM: PM ratifies foreign aid-financed projects
- INDIA: Spot weapons, win cash
- Mine-filled IRAQ to accelerate clearance
- CAMBODIA war survivors turn to music (link no longer active)
- TURKISH military disposes of anti-personnel landmines
- Ohio airbase base plans explosives training range
- Demining story wins The Star journalist MPI Award
- Landmines: Kurdistan's hidden enemy
- JAPAN grants $5.6 million to CAMBODIA
- Landmine clearance funding in decline
- UN supports AFGHAN demining efforts
- UN: Children biggest victims of landmines, other ERW
- AUSTRALIAN government gives $2.4 million to IRAQI landmine survivors
- TAJIKISTAN remains largest mines concern
- Red Cross: More work needed on landmine clearance
- Clearing the legacies of war from AFGHANISTAN'S soil
- BURMA urged to stop landmine use
- Push to rid CYPRUS buffer zone of landmines by 2011 (link no longer active)
- GAZA: Access to buffer zone key to agricultural recovery
- Developing AFGHANISTAN into a peaceful and prosperous country
- International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action
- SE ASIA: New mine victims reinforce need for treaty
- LEBANESE uncover weapons in south (link no longer active)
- Mine accident in AFGHANISTAN still remembered by villagers
- JAPAN funds demining efforts in northern SRI LANKA
- INDIA: Local leader barely escapes landmine blast
- Economic crisis slows mine clearance, endangering lives (video)
- 'Lethal Legacy' documents clearance of 57k mines from LEBANON (video)
March '09
- INDIA: Three women injured in landmine blast
- JAPAN gives nearly $8 million boost for demining in Africa
- INDIA: Military denies landmine explosions responsible for forest fires
- SRI LANKA: Most landmines in Jaffna cleared
- Mine victim provides prostheses to other victims
- THAILAND helps to make a mine-free world (link no longer active)
- Sir Bobby Charlton launches drive to find landmine breakthrough
- International Day for Mine Awareness: a mine-free world within reach (video)
- INDIAN Army porter dies in landmine blast
- HRW urges US, Obama administration to ban landmines
- GERMAN ambassador speaks on cooperation with ANGOLA
- JAPAN extends 300 million rupees for assistance in SRI LANKA
- Basra littered with mines, group says (link no longer active)
- BRITISH demining experts to visit Falklands
- Mine victims say they are forgotten
- Four US-led soldiers killed in AFGHANISTAN
- CANADA probes whether blast killed AFGHAN children
- Third child dies after blast in AFGHAN village
- MOZAMBIQUE: Clearance priorities discussed
- ANGOLA: State Dept. issues $5 million for mine removal
- INDIA: 13 police escape landmine blast
- In Harm's Way: Video profiles MAG deminers (video)
February '09
- SLOVENIA to donate EUR819,000 to ITF in 2009
- UNMAO SUDAN winter 2009 newsletter
- ITF celebrates 10th anniversary, devises new plans
- GAMBIA: Seven die in desert after vehicle hits mine
- Profile of TDI, clearance company (link no longer active)
- SODI continues funding clearance in VIETNAM
- YEMEN: Government officials meet to discuss national mine-action plan
- AZERBAIJAN: 685,261 sq. meters cleared in January
- Anti-landmine vehicle saves police from blast
- ANGOLA: Demining ends in area now declared mine-free
- YEMEN, CROATIA sign mine-action agreement
- JAPAN funds demining projects in TIMOR-LESTE
- MOZAMBIQUE given more time for mine clearance
- Students in GEORGIA receive textbooks, MRE
- The forgotten 'victim' of the northern UGANDAN war
- ZAMBIA clears landmines
- SOMALIA blast and aftermath leaves at least 20 dead
- January 2009 mine-action technology newsletter released (PDF)
- GERMANY provides demining supplies, other aid to GEORGIA
- ANGOLA: Military deminers, national demining center receive equipment
- CHINA presents demining equipment to SUDAN
- ANGOLA: Demining officials deactivate explosive devices
- SRI LANKA: US and JAPAN pledge demining funds
- GAZA: Mine-action logisitcs update
- PAKISTAN: Landmine blast wounds 14
- Giant rats sniff out MOZAMBIQUE'S mines
- SRI LANKA: BELGIUM to support demining process
- Demining to begin in north SRI LANKA
- NIGERIA: Government clears mines
- NEPAL: Army completes demining of Siraha forest
- New radio technology improves landmine detection
- ANGOLA: Provincial Governor Reiterates Support to demining teams
January '09
- UXOInfo.com resleases January newsletter (link no longer active)
- New framework for SRI LANKAN demining
- Save the Children helping Gazans return to school despite danger
- Colombia Army finds FARC landmine factory
- French aid mission, deminers head to EGYPT
- INDIA: Six policemen killed in landmine blast
- Mine machine to flail air range
- ANGOLA: Landmine action committee assess activities
- Afghanistan still tops landmine casualty list
- Demining in MOZAMBIQUE to continue until 2014
- UN appeal for funds to clear Afghan landmines
- PAKISTAN: Two children injured in landmine blast
- ANGOLA: Demining institute trains sappers in safe techniques
- Landmine kills two soldiers In PAKISTAN
- KOSOVO: 6 injured in blasts
- VIETNAM: PM endorses $16 mil. project to preserve world heritage site
- U.S. Army destroys last landmine containing nerve agents
- BHUTAN: Communist guerrillas kill four forest guards
- CHINA ends landmine mission
- MAG worker killed by landmine in Halabja
- 13 mines blasted in AZERBAIJAN in 2008
- Landmine clearance work to begin in Falklands after quarter century wait
December '08
- INDIA: 20-kg landmine recovered
- SOMALIA: Explosion Kills Three Ethiopian Soldiers
- SOMALILAND records drop in landmine accidents
- MOLDOVA troops complete IRAQ pullout
- UK commits to demining Falklands
- SOMALIA: 6 die in Mogadishu landmine blasts
- CAMBODIA: Local demining goes to the dogs
- BiH to withdraw military demining specialists from Iraq in December
- JORDAN: All-female demining team begins work
- Mine casualties in BURMA nearly double
- PALESTINE: Seven injured after triggering mine in buffer zone
- Overall funds for UN demining languish
- UN prepares handover of mine action to SUDAN
- RUSSIA will continue clearance in Serbia until 2012
- CAMBODIA: mine clearance cut because of financial crisis
- VIETNAM: Brother of mine survivor is top of EOD class
- US Defense Dept. plans live tests with MineWolf
- PHILIPPINES: Army recovers rebel landmine, ammunition
- US destroys last nerve-gas landmine
- AZERBAIJAN: Nearly 1.2 mil. sq. m. cleared in October
- COLOMBIAN drug gangs' mine use 'similar to a war zone'
- SWITZERLAND calls for greater efforts to ban landmines
- Half of war casualties in SRI LANKA due to small mine
- JAPANESE-funded clearance enables grassroots development
November '08
- Over 150,000 landmines defused in SRI LANKA
- MAG's work to continue benefiting poorest in Quang Tri, VIETNAM
- SOUTH LEBANON: U.S. Embassy inaugurates new building for development cooperative
- Injured soldier tells tale of landmine blast
- UN Secretary-General: Pact on ERW a vital tool
- IRAQ: MAG aids village reconstruction in Dohuk
- MILF commits anew to international humanitarian law on landmines
- Anticipating downward trends in mine action spending, Mechem expands services
- U.S. Soldiers in IRAQ battle a dangerous foe under the ground
- UNAMID police advisers conduct mine awareness campaign
- Planned EOD Exhibit at the U.S. Navy Memorial
- Wartime ammunition found in north NAMIBIA (link no longer active)
- Assisting refugees' safe return to southern SUDAN
- New dogs needed to sniff out landmines in CAMBODIA
- Taliban commander perishes by his own landmine (link no longer active)
- PHILIPPINE military condemns continued use of landmines in NPA raids
- CZECH KFOR troops conduct mine awareness program
- RWANDA: GERMANY pledges €300K for demining
- ARMENIA: Exploding landmines in Karabakh continue to maim
- SRI LANKA: MAG's impact in Batticaloa
- INDIA: Four jailed for landmine explosion in West Bengal
- SWEDISH demining team deploys to SUDAN (link no longer active)
- Rats and robots sniff out landmines
- GERMANY allots €200,000 for mine clearing in GEORGIA (link no longer active)
- SUDAN: UNAMID and Mine Action Team detonate unexploded ordnance
- Mine action reaches remote AFGHAN villages
- Arms Control: Arms Trade Treaty
- Illicit weapons put UN peacekeepers at high risk (link no longer active)
- Naomi Watts to play landmine campaigner
- UK supports vulnerable GEORGIANS
- AFGHANISTAN: Disability deprives children of education
- Tutu urges support for UN small arms control treaty
- CHILE demining with sophisticated Pentagon equipment
October '08
- CAMBODIA accused of planting new mines
- Coroner condemns minefield rescue
- AFGHAN amputee avoids begging with bike service
- A slow, wary return for GEORGIAN refugees
- Four guilty, one released in deminer killing
- U.S. approves additional $825,000 for demining in LEBANON
- GERMAN man receives world's first double-arm transplant
- U.K. trade controls on small arms, MANPADS and cluster munitions go into effect
- CZECH REPUBLIC gives another 100,000 Euros to ITF (link no longer active)
- AFGHANISTAN: MACA hands over cleared land to 8 communities
- A Disarming Line of Work
- GEORGIA, US Sign Agreement on Demining (link no longer active)
- SRI LANKA and UNHCR, "We are partners in the true sense"
- Rail to be Cleared in SOUTH SUDAN (link no longer active)
- Major project to identify, destroy unexploded ordnance across JORDAN
- JAPAN may slash funds for clearing landmines in CAMBODIA
- Confronting remnants of war
- Foreign Minister plays down landmine case on CAMBODIAN Border
- AZERBAIJAN: ANAMA cleared 1,695,875 square miles of mines and UXO last month
- GEORGIA/RUSSIA: ICRC continues to assist the most vulnerable
- Landmine victims become survivors at CAMBODIA'S Miss Landmine contest
- Award-winning U.N. deminer wants to donate his prize money
- TAIWAN: Demining in Kinmen 25 percent complete
- Fighting spirit: What the landmine doesn't destroy
- Children Against Landmines chapter hosts "Strut-Your-Mutt" event
- Mary evokes memory of Diana with landmine clearing in UGANDA
- PHILIPPINES: Landmine attack in North Cotabato foiled
- UGANDA embarks on demining
- Making IRAQ a safer place, one enemy weapon at a time
- SOUTH AMERICAN soldiers find new hope at Mayo Clinic
- FRANCE urges ISRAEL to hand over LEBANON sub-munitions map
- TURKEY plans landmine clearance
- ANGOLA: Mapping the hidden enemy
- ANGOLA: Over 4000 victims of landmines assisted
- SUDAN: Southern town celebrates end of demining (link no longer active)
- IRAQI police discover cache, largest find to date
- Bombs into angels: Sculptor melts weapons to make art, peace
- DynCorp International wins new contract for demining and explosives removal (link no longer active)
- iRobot receives $5.8 million order from UNITED STATES
- SUDAN: Responding to an accidental explosion
- INDIA: Landmine, detonators seized in Bihar
- Situation Report on the situation in GEORGIA (23 Sept 2008)
- Arms Control Today Q&A with U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama
- Joint venture undertaken to produce anti-landmine vehicles
September '08
- AUSTRALIAN photo exhibit: CAMBODIA's tragic legacy
- Soap company cleans up landmines
- NORWAY to assist GEORGIA in demining
- Landmine survivors tell their story in pictures
- California woman mortgages house to help landmine victim from ZIMBABWE
- Award given to mine action programme in southern LEBANON
- MND-B Soldiers find ordnance, detain 4 in Baghdad
- SUDAN: Land returned to Kapoeta community
- LEBANON: MAG improving quality of life in Sejoud
- More CAMBODIANS die from lightning than from landmines
- Video of Handicap International's Awareness Day (link no longer active)
- Two TURKISH soldiers killed in landmine explosion
- CAMBODIA's dog-tired demining mission needs fresh recruits, cash
- U.K.: Royal Marine soldier Mark Ormrod back at post after Taliban blast
- IRAN/IRAQ: Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan destroys anti-personnel mines
- Anti-tank mine kills 5, wounds 3 in CAMBODIA
- UNICEF leads campaign to get displaced children in GEORGIA back to school
- Historic clearance of deadly minefield in SOUTH SUDAN
- SRI LANKA: Demining in Jaffna High Security Zone underway
- IRAQ: Mine detection dogs arrive in Chamchamal
- Stay off firing range, Montana Guard warns (link no longer active)
- NIGER: Army seizes outlawed anti-personnel mines
- UN peacekeep killed in LEBANON
- Kurdish group destroys landmine stockpile
- JAPAN funds humanitarian demining in North and East
- CHAD: unexploded ordnance kills one, injures five; 95 victims this year.
- Demining operations underway in Basra (link no longer active)
- COLOMBIA to send demining experts to AFGHANISTAN
- US search continues for WWII Ordnance
- UN warns GEORGIA returnees of uncleared land mines
- Contractors to hunt for munitions in US
- Responding to the emergency needs of IDPs in SUDAN
- JORDAN clears minefields in the South
- GERMANY supports mine clearance in GEORGIA
- Bomb squad disposes of unexploded ordnance in Oklahoma
- SOMALIA: Five arrested over threats to NGO workers
- Kidnapped AFGHAN deminers should be immediately released
- MILF denies using landmines
- CHILE not expected to meet 2012 demining deadline
- JAPANESE NGO worker killed in AFGHANISTAN
- SUDAN: Responding to the emergency needs IDPs
- ANGOLA: 'Vote in safety' is MAG's election message
- Light metals against bombs and grenades
- SUDAN: Maximizing impact in Juba
- CHAD children help IRISH bomb experts
August '08
- "Explosive" paper set to save lives
- NPA SUDAN starts mine clearance in RWANDA
- ANGOLA: Over 120,000 Landmines destroyed countrywide
- SERBIA needs $31 billion for demining activities
- ZIMBABWE president praises Army's demining efforts
- Peak Resources enters exclusive landmine detection technology development agreement (link no longer active)
- UN cleans Abeyi, SUDAN, of unexploded weapons
- Conflict in GEORGIA: UXO poses high risk for civilians, displaced populations
- Children are main victims of CHAD violence
- Southern communities in JORDAN welcome return of mine-free land
- Congress Considering UXO Technology Transfer Initiatives
- COLOMBIA may send demining troops to AFGHANISTAN
- CHAD: Deaths from UXO on the rise says MSF
- NEPAL expresses commitment to becoming mine free (link no longer active)
- MAG saves lives in Pirijan, IRAQ
- Binding treaty eludes small arms trade
- Nearly 1.4M sq m of AZERBAIJAN cleared of mines and UXO last month
- Conventional weapons destruction, landmine clearance in SOMALIA (link no longer active)
- EOD mission changes during IRAQ deployment, public safety still protected
- Golden West Humanitarian Foundation helps educate people, remove landmines (link no longer active)
- Farming a deadly risk in mine-laden southern SENEGAL
- IRAQ: Soldiers seize cache, discover UXO
- Old rocket blamed for CHAD blast (link no longer active)
- Mortars and ammunition removed from IRAQI museum
- Army recovers NPA bomb components in PHILIPPENES
- Experts say KOSOVO to be clear of mines by 2013 (link no longer active)
- Daily brief on COTE D'IVOIRE includes SA/LW update
- Successful small arms conference may boost prospects of 'arms trade treaty'
- Danish Demining Organization finds human skeleton in SRI LANKA
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund dedicates center in VIETNAM
- EGYPT to start demining northern coast next September
- Operation to comb out small arms to be carried out
- AFGHANISTAN: Historic city of Bamyan to be cleared of all mines
- ANGOLA: 10 demining machines expected from JAPAN (link no longer active)
- YEMEN strives to stop small arms proliferation
- RWANDA destroys over 100 tons of light weapons, ammunition
- CAMBODIA: JAPAN gives $750,000 to demine Battambang (link no longer active)
- SRI LANKA: Demining in Jaffna peninsula likely to stall
- THAILAND, CAMBODIA disagree on border (link no longer active)
- RUSSIAN mine clearers to disable NATO bombs in SERBIA
- SUDAN: Historic clearance of Kapoeta minefield completed
- Photo gallery: CAMBODIAN minefield scenes
July '08
- More than 6.5 million square meters of land in AFGHANISTAN cleaned up from explosive devices (link no longer active)
- Quakers establish fund to help rid world's hotspots of landmines
- SOMALIA: Puntland authorities destroy anti-personnel mines
- CAMBODIA: Many landmines have been destroyed but work still remains (link no longer active)
- CANADIAN helps victims of landmines
- 2,500 mines cleared from northern IRAQ (link no longer active)
- UN official: AFGHANISTAN making significant progress in mine clearance
- ANGOLA: Halo Trust deactivates over 2,000 landmines (link no longer active)
- U.S. Marine Corps orders "green" training ammo
- CANADIAN math students hunt UXO (link no longer active)
- A recent history of the disability rights movement in EL SALVADOR
- Former EGYPT MP calls for landmine removal
- JAPAN finances education, demining projects in CAMBODIA
- IRAQI-KURDISH landmine official discusses clearance program (link no longer active)
- Third Biennial Meeting on small arms and light weapons
- 24 INDIAN policemen killed in landmine explosion
- PHILIPPINES: Rebels refute Army's claim on landmine use
- Bomb detector was front for scam
- Rehabilitation project launched for child victims of landmines
- Bomb-disposal robots get new life sniffing out chemicals
- U.N. Sec-Gen: Universal action needed to halt illegal proliferation of SA/LW
- ITALY contributes additional funds to OAS demining programs
- SUDAN: MAG returns more land in Kapoeta
- DynCorp International builds mine awareness in AFGHANISTAN
- 15,000 mines still exist in Uganda-Kabwegere
- European Commission offers new landmine destruction project to Belarus
- Wartime bomb kills three in Vietnam
- UK terror attack survivor to help landmine victims in CAMBODIA
- TURKEY clears SYRIA border mines, boosts trade hopes (link no longer active)
- CAMBODIA: Clearance helps hundreds in Malai district
- Expolsions rock old BULGARIAN munitions depot
- UEFA/ICRC "Score for the Red Cross" humanitarian campaign a success
- Central African survivors' project under way
- AFGHANISTAN: Landmines impede civilians' return to volatile Arghandab
- BURUNDI demining mission aims to defuse explosive tensions
- Center for training on neutralizing UXO to be established in AZERBAIJAN
- Soccer star Bobby Charltan launches anti-landmine campaign
- Searching in ANGOLA for the hidden enemy: landmines
- Baku hosts seminar of NATO/PfP Trust Fund
- Kidnapped DANISH, SWEDISH aid workers freed in SOMALIA
- Deadly Harvest: Clearing IRAQ'S killing fields
- Mirror therapy to help treat afflictions, including phantom limb pain (read to end for applicability to amputees)
- AFGHANISTAN: Volatile security hampers United Nation's ability to clear landmines
- New generation of mine clearing dogs born in CAMBODIA
- Wives and girlfriends of footballers pose for photos to aid mine victims (link no longer active)
- ETHIOPIA: LSN awards members for good results at sporting event
- IRISH Minister of State pledges new support for landmine victims in ANGOLA
June '08
- Indian Army hosts camp for landmine blasts victims (link no longer active)
- Landmine clearing saves lives in NEPAL
- IRAN: Hidden menace of "iron soldiers"
- UNDP demining near Yeri, CYPRUS
- CHECHEN landmine survivors score goals on the football pitch
- Environmentally friendly bombs planned
- CAMBODIAN deminers return from U.N. peacekeeping missions
- Route clearance team makes IRAQ safer
- Photo series: CAMBODIAN Female demining team
- BURUNDI: MAG helps gov't reduce threat of weapons and stockpiles
- AFGHANISTAN: ISAF troops providing awareness on UXO
- A legacy of war worth cheering for (link no longer active)
- U.N. mine clearance expert talk
- Blasts in AFGHAN capital were controlled, says official
- Photo journal: Demining BURUNDI
- INDIA: Three troopers killed in Maoist blast in Chhattisgarh
- AFGHANISTAN: Designed to maim
- THAILAND: Elephant's landmine injury fixed with a fake leg
- RED CROSS urging fans to help landmine victims (link no longer active)
- VIETNAM: Blast kills two shell-recyclers in central highlands
- AFGHANISTAN: Digging for life
- Casualties from landmines, other explosives in sharp decline
- Iraqi kids dream of artificial limbs (link no longer active)
- UGANDA: 'The forgotten victim' of the Northern War
- NEPAL: Demining under way but threat of casualties persists
- MAG LAO female team leader makes her mark
- Humanitarian mine action in DR CONGO
- UK seeks extension on FALKLANDS mine clearance
- Landmine-sniffing rats of MOZAMBIQUE
- Scrap metal search a risky business
- INDIA-PAKISTAN border fence affecting wildlife
- NDC explodes 95 unexploded shells in Aden, YEMEN
- EU allocates 2.6 million euro to help tackle problems of UXO in SERBIA
- The nose knows: mine-sniffing dogs shows skills at Parkway school (link no longer active)
- Amputee and IRISH rescuer swap memories
- Digging up mines buries war horror
- Former AFGHAN landmine experts retrain for new employment
- Unexploded munitions claim lives in VIETNAM
- New weapon against mines in AFGHANISTAN
- Demining and destruction of unsafe explosives in NEPAL (link no longer active)
- AFGHAN mine victims proudly work as bicycle couriers
May '08
- Students host blood drive to raise awareness about landmines
- DR CONGO: Diving for bombs
- Demining of Persian Gulf under way
- Metal scavengers risk lives on US bomb sites
- EOD essential to safety in Kosovo
- 60% of demining in Angola to be complete by August 2008 (link no longer active)
- UK troops makes explosives safe in Basra operation
- Senegal ratifies convention on small arms
- Weapons removal and safety education aided by U.S. grants
- Egypt: Clearing mines, helping victims (includes video)
- SENEGAL: Lack of peace accord hampers demining in Casamance
- Old rocket leaves 3 AFGHAN kids dead
- Juanes impresses during four-night L.A. run
- Fourth former Khmer Rouge arrested in killing of BRITISH mine clearer
- ANGOLA: Welfare minister starts visit to learn of demining progress
- UGANDA study: 90% of female mine victims divorced
- Back into war with just one leg (link no longer active)
- Film documenting CAMBODIAN landmine casualties ends shoot in Dublin
- BURUNDI aims to rid itself of landmines
- SENEGAL: Landmines claim new victims in Casamance
- MOZAMBIQUE wants more time for demining
- CHINA donates 600,000 USD for demining
- 2,500 mines cleared from northern IRAQ
- ICBL urges all countries to join newly enacted UN disability rights convention
- CAMBODIAN embassy in Washington plans wine tasting for mine clearing
- Landmine blast kills 9 in PAKISTANI border town
- SUDAN: 'I have a mine in my living room, what should I do?
- LEBANON: MAG cleared 287,255 sq meters during March
- Rats to de-mine northern region of UGANDA
- Plans to clear landmines on the FALKLAND ISLANDS (link no longer active)
April '08
- Mongooses 'can sniff-out landmines'
- Europe and UN to help JORDAN clear border landmines
- "Fragments" art exhibit to return to LONDON
- RUSSIA to clear landmines in SERBIA
- CAMBODIAN mine legacy lives on after Pol Pot
- Slideshow: UXO in DARFUR (link no longer active)
- US NGOs donate wheelchairs to poor in VIETNAM
- WEST AFRICA: Renewed call to ratify Ecowas Arms Convention
- NORWAY: Ski trek for landmine charity is nearing finish
- UN mine service considers new ways to clear land more effectively
- CONGO: Hidden killers on the loose
- UGANDA: Landmine victims appeal for help
- IRAQ: Two thousand demining jobs up for grabs
- GAMBIA: 3 months after Gilanfari landmine explosion, no sign of demining
- European football teams team up with the ICRC to help victims of landmines in AFGHANISTAN
- UN says unexploded ordnance in IRAQ hampers development projects (link no longer active)
- Charity boxing match scores a knockout for landmines (link no longer active)
- Landmines exist in nearly every governorate of YEMEN (link no longer active)
- SPLA destroys landmines in SUDAN
- AUSTRALIA commits $10m to clear AFGHANISTAN landmines
- UNICEF boosts mine awareness in IRAQ (link no longer active)
- IRAQ marks international day for mine awareness
- Landmine victim helping CYPRUS become mine free
- U.N.: AFGHAN mines killed more than 600 in '07
- The long, long cleanup in LAOS
- Ahead of International Day, senior UN official urges support for mine action
- International day for mine awareness and assistance in mine action observed in SUDAN
- 2008: Crunch time for mine action
- KPC marks United Nations International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action in KOSOVO
- International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action observed in LEBANON
- Jaipur foot for ANGOLA landmine victims
- FRANCE recognizes International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action
- Int'l Mine Action Day marked at OSCE-supported centre in TAJIKISTAN
- UGANDA: Landmine programme has saved millions
- Landmines no threat to IDPs in UGANDA
- ANGOLA: Amputee beauty pageant crowns Miss Landmine 2008
- PAKISTAN: Landmines ruin lives, leave hundreds dead
- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon marks International Mine Action Day
- Senior UN official marks International Mine Action Day
- Girl Scouts Do A World Of Good
- SUDAN demolishes over 6000 landmines in Juba
- CANADA: University of Waterloo students develop new landmine technology
- Dith Pran, Photojournalist and Survivor of the Killing Fields, Dies at 65
- UN mine expert loses part of leg in Cyprus blast
March '08
- Football's Ronaldo named Red Cross ambassador for landmine victims campaign (link no longer active)
- CANADA continues its support for OAS mine action program
- CHILE to spend millions removing borders' landmines
- ANGOLA to host landmine pageant
- Feds commission NMC students to conduct study on WWII ordnance
- Two more deminers killed in AFGHANISTAN
- Women join demining charge in south SUDAN
- Five Afghan deminers shot dead (link no longer active)
- OCHA Situation Report #2: ALBANIA ammunition depot explosion
- NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency experts to visit Azerbaijan
- YEMEN: Landmine-free by 2009?
- OCHA Situation Report: ALBANIA ammunition depot explosion
- Private companies to remove landmines in KOREA
- BOSNIA blast kills two mine clearers, injures one
- GERMANY donates mine detectors to ETHIOPIA
- LEBANON: Farmers Struggle to Stay on Their Land
- Nobel laureate speaks on landmines at Cornell University (link no longer active)
- New York art exhibit raises funds, awareness for landmine problem
- Albania mourns 17 killed in ammunition depot blast; 3 arrested, accused of negligence
- Eight killed in Ethiopian landmine blast
- IRELAND pledges 2 million euros towards global landmine clearance (link no longer active)
- Foreign Policy publishes photo essay on MineTech's clearance in IRAQ
- U.S. contributes major boost for OAS demining in COLOMBIA
- BOSNIA: Buried landmines impede tourism in and threaten locals
- CAMBODIA: Promoting economic security among landmine victims
- ITALY continues its aid to OAS mine action efforts in COLOMBIA
- Removing debris of war opens mountain sanctuary in AFGHANISTAN
- Landmine photos show remnants of war in VIETNAM
- California lecturer organizes campaign to remove landmines in AFGHANISTAN
- DynCorp International employee barters with AFGHAN children using soccer balls for safety
- COLOMBIA: Alarming increase in landmine casualties
- YEMEN uses German Shephards to find long-buried landmines (link no longer active)
- BURMA tops list for landmines
- United States Civil War Relics Collector Killed by Ordnance (link no longer active)
- NICARAGUA: Landmine-free by 2009?
- Sudan: The Battle is Gone But Landmines Remain
February '08
- ANGOLA: Government to set up 11 demining brigades countrywide
- Some 1,500 COLOMBIANS leave homes for fear of minefields
- DR Congo: Camp Ngashi clearance completed
- EGYPT: Unexploded mines block development in northwest
- NGO clears IRAQI minefield
- Tropical soils impede landmine detection
- Climbers call to help clear landmines blocking way to AFGHAN mountain
- IRAQ: Government plans massive mine clearance operation
- SUDAN: The battle is gone but landmines remain
- Ridding the community of SALW in KURDISTAN region
- IRANIAN landmines found in taliban commander's house (link no longer active)
- Foreign doctors killed by landmine in SOMALIA
- UGANDA: Over 900 mines destroyed in Acholi
- United States Efforts to Protect International Aviation from Man-Portable Air Defense Systems Attacks (link no longer active)
- Double amputee walks again with the help of bluetooth technology
- Some Countries to Miss Mine Treaty Deadlines
- Wartime bombs and landmines still plague central provinces of VIETNAM
- More Land To Be Cleared Of UXO in LAOS
January '08
- CHILE removes mines from BOLIVIAN border (link no longer active)
- ANGOLA: Over 100 AT, 250 AP mines deactivated
- ANGOLA: Over 130 landmine victims re-integrated
- AFGHANISTAN: Landmines and UXO kill and maim hundreds in 2007
- Reporter killed by landmine in NIGER
- IRAQI civil defense corps hands over large explosives cache to KAZAKH soldiers
- CAMBODIA: Chilling radio ad donated in support of landmine victims
- NIGER on landmine alert
- SRI LANKAN minister dies after landmine attack
- Wartime bombs and landmines still plaguing the central provinces of VIETNAM
- Jumping across LONDON, raising money for landmine cause
- LAO PDR strengthens UXO clearance
- Donor funds needed in MAURITANIA
- AZERBAIJAN needs $600M to clear occupied lands
- AFGHAN forces discover stockpile of APMs
- ANGOLA hails new success in demining
- How Does It Stack Up? The Mine Ban Convention at 10
- MAG Removes 100,000 Pieces of UXO in VIETNAM
- INDIA has 4 Million Mines Stockpiled
- Two Killed While Demining in BOSNIA
- HAWAIIAN Nature Reserve Reopens after UXO Clearance
- U.S. Still Top Financial Contributor to Humanitarian Mine Action (link no longer active)
- New Jersey church donates magnetic detectors for demining in TAJIKISTAN (link no longer active)
- Bombing in ALGERIA kills nine UN staff members
- YEMEN: 5 die every month as a result of landmines, report says (link no longer active)
December '07
- Deminers 'need one more year' to clear cluster bombs
- A decade of demining
- ZAMBIA facing landmine threat
- U.S. tests anti-IED laser (link no longer active)
- GAMBIA: Canadian NGO, UNICEF launch landmines education
- THAI deminers badly underfunded
- Hailstorms set off cluster bombs in southern LEBANON
- Charting progress and challenges at 10th anniversary of the Mine Ban Convention
- MOROCCO backs efforts to clear landmines
- ANGOLAN mine victims compete in beauty pagaent
- UN proposes US$404 million initiative to remove landmines
- Cornell engineering students design mechanical minesweeper
November '07
- Disabled World Cup for volleyball kicks off in CAMBODIA
- Ex-Supreme's singer raises mine awareness
- IED attacks decline in Iraq (link to short description with audio news report)
- Funding available for environmental R&D; seeking proposals on UXO remediation
- Landmine casualties drop in 2006, victim aid often insufficient
- BRITAIN, others likely to miss 2009 deadline for clearing landmines
- Pupils' landmine film to screen in LONDON
- Forty million mines destroyed under Ban Convention
- LSN co-founder and mine survivor calls for end to 'victim mentality' (link no longer active)
- CAMBODIA landmines clearance pushed back 10 years
- Still a long way to go for BOSNIA to reach mine-free goals
- Art inspired by landmine victims
- BAHRAIN to ratify mine ban
- BURUNDI: Project begins with MANPADS destruction
- Nearly 1,600 displaced Afghans return home this year with UN assistance
- YEMEN: Situation could worsen in north amid claims of new landmines being laid
- Lebanon: UNIFIL's Indian battallion treats over 80 mine victims in Jaipur foot clinic
- Turning CAMBODIA's minefields into gardens
- Mine targeting police forces in INDIA injures bus passengers
- Cornell engineering students design unmanned minesweeping vehicle
- MOZAMBIQUE sets five-year target to clear landmines (link no longer active)
- Over 2000 explosive devices deactivated in ANGOLA
October '07
- Nearly 1,600 displaced Afghans return home this year with UN assistance
- INDIA: Valley rebels shed mines from arsenal
- FRANCE tells ALGERIA location of landmines
- Fields of peril in AZERBAIJAN
- Educating NEPALESE youths about the dangers of explosives
- SUDAN: Landmine clearing operation complete work over 223 km in eastern region (link no longer active)
- Villagers flee MYANMAR's deadly landmines (link no longer active)
- Speakers to tell 'cluster bomb' story
- AZERBAIJAN: new play areas protect children from landmines
- BULGARIA contributes to a SALW destruction project in ALBANIA
- Landmines killed or wounded 2000 in DRC (link no longer active)
- SOMALIA: Puntland authorities grant unprecedented access to stockpiles (link no longer active)
- UAE task force clears over 6,800 mines from LEBANON
- Explosion in MOZAMBIQUE forces evacuation of neaby families
- CANADIAN troops unveil new weapon against IEDs
- UGANDA: IDPs returning home still face many challenges
- AFGHANISTAN: Strategic Kabul hill demined
- ECUADOR delivers report on destruction of over 1,000 landmines
- IRAQ: Agriculture benefits from clearance operations
- New threat in NIGER as flooding displaces landmines
- University in CANADA hosts photo exhibit of landmine victims
- High tech's slow march in landmine campaign
- Robots to the rescue in mine action
- LEBANON: Yohmer village - a year on
- SLOVENIAN-run ITF and UNMAS sign cooperation agreement
- EU donates €2 million for mine action in YEMEN
- YEMEN: Lawyers seek settlement for landmine victims
- UGANDA: Gulu landmine victims earn a living from clay
- UN Mine Action Team calls for Cluster Bomb Treaty
September '07
- Poisoned by war, LEBANON reaps meagre harvest
- AFGHANISTAN: Last 3 kidnapped deminers freed
- SERBIA to learn where bombs were dropped (link no longer active)
- Part of AFGHAN capital now free of landmines
- 3 casualties in explosion in VIETNAM (link no longer active)
- UN experts enter LEBANON battle camp
- Filmmakers and cast to donate movie profits to demining in former YUGOSLAVIA
- AFGHANISTAN: Gunmen free 10 abducted deminers
- ANGOLA: Call to ex-Plan fighters to help demine country
- AFGHAN war amputees become prosthesis pros (link no longer active)
- LEBANON: ECHO funded mine/UXO clearance project in the Tyre region
- U.S. Senate passes bill on cluster bomb use
- Amputee to walk for charity in CAMBODIA
- Deminers demand security guarantees before resuming work in Kandahar, AFGHANISTAN
- Coalition Munitions Clearance Prorgram security contractor killed in IRAQ
- ANGOLA: 250 kilometers of road opened by Mines Advisory Group
- TAIWAN: Vice Minister Yang signs anti-landmine resolution
- COLOMBIAN rebels increase landmine use, raising casualties (link no longer active)
- Groundbreaking radar-based landmine detection system developed
August '07
- NEPAL: Committee to be formed to aid landmine victims (link no longer active)
- Cluster bomb kills one demining expert and wounds three others in LEBANON
- U.S. landmine clearance to expand in VIETNAM
- Vehicle-mounted laser pod could destroys bombs (link no longer active)
- IRAQ: First phase of Landmine Impact Survey (LIS) complete (link no longer active)
- Landmines uprooted by floods pose serious risk in NEPAL
- MOZAMBIQUE says landmine deadline will not be met (link no longer active)
- Cougar armored trucks to stalk mines on the battlefield
- U.S. condemns terrorist use of landmines in COLOMBIA
- Mobile movie theater conducts mine risk education in LEBANON
- Three deminers kidnapped and murdered in AFGHANISTAN
- Conventional weapons being destroyed globally with U.S. aid (link no longer active)
- Professor invents device to aid landmine survivors in CAMBODIA (link no longer active)
- European Commission signs contract for demining of CYPRUS buffer zone (link no longer active)
- Mine-resistant vehicle to provide protection for U.S. troops (link no longer active)
- COLOMBIA: Mine use skyrockets, creates world leader in mine victims
- MAPA makes sweeping progress in AFGHANISTAN
- UK and KENYA share Firmin Sword of Peace
- CHINA clearing landmines on Sino-Vietnamese border
- Cheap microphones listen for landmines (link no longer active)
- Landmines in GUINEA BISSAU: The forgotten crisis?
- NORTHERN IRELAND: Student wins grant for inventing limb (link no longer active)
- French deminer with U.N. peacekeepers killed in SOUTH LEBANON explosion
July '07
- Rats and cats team up to sniff out landmines (link no longer active)
- African elephants learn to avoid landmines in war-torn ANGOLA (link no longer active)
- LEBANON: Commercials to warn children of danger of unexploded ordnance
- Costs of war and recovery in LEBANON and ISRAEL
- Portable robots intercept IEDs in IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN
- Over 600 tons of weapons destroyed in ANGOLA
- Illinois man builds landmine detonation device
- UXO disposal class is "booming"
- AFGHANISTAN: Monthly landmine casualties down, says UN (link no longer active)
- U.S. Senate considers curtailing purchase of cluster bombs using American military aid
- The Sole of Africa launches global landmine initiative for Africa
- U.S. Commemorates Small Arms Destruction Day with "Millionth Weapon Destruction" Events (link no longer active)
- The NETHERLANDS suspends the use of cluster bombs
- U.S. Senate considers cluster munitions restrictions in new foreign operations appropriations bill
- 16 abducted AFGHAN deminers released by Taliban
- U.S. makes statement on cluster munitions (link no longer active)
June '07
- Red Cross announces new landmine awareness program in ARMENIA
- U.S. elementary school sponsors mine detection dog (link no longer active)
- Taliban forces expected to release captive deminers
- Mine action in AFGHANISTAN allows 1000 families to return home
- Refugees in LEBANON return to threat of UXO
- NEPAL: Clearance of explosives a post-conflict challenge
- JORDAN offers to help KUWAIT with ERW removal
- Two casualties in landmine clearance accident in BOSNIA
- JAPAN to back ban on cluster bombs
- Alliance of BURMESE opposition organisations issues position on landmines (link no longer active)
- U.K. offers demining equipment to NEPAL army
- U.S. Surgeon helps disabled get to their feet in VIETNAM
- UNMACA and AFGHANISTAN government sign Memorandum of Understanding for victim assistance and mine risk education
- UNITED STATES making progress in elimination of shoulder-fired missiles.
- Unexploded ordnance hampering aid deliveries to refugees in LEBANON
- Researchers pursue truly functional prosthetic arm
- NEPAL: Some 12,500 landmines planted by insurgents (link no longer active)
- SOUTH AFRICAN "scrap" turns out to be live mortar
- U.S. Department of State Awards $2.2 million to Deal With ERW and Landmines (link no longer active)
- Croatian mines replaced by wines
- U.S. Army allows amputee soldiers to return to active duty (link no longer active)
- New Jersey beach re-opens after nearly 3 months of unexploded munitions disposal (link no longer active)
- A second provincial governor donates land to injured deminers in AFGHANISTAN (link no longer active)
- 68 countries push for ban on cluster munitions
- CANADIAN soldier/landmine victim still game for action (link no longer active)
- CROATIAN bees sniff out landmines
May '07
- Provincial govenor in AFGHANISTAN donates land to 26 injured deminers
- New grants to deal with explosives remnants of war and landmines
- Mine kills 9 policemen in INDIA
- ANGOLA: Soldiers rehabilitate road, bridges
- Six soldiers killed in TURKEY landmine blast
- NIGER: Aid workers in north threatened by carjacking, fresh landmines
- SRI LANKA roadside bomb, clash kill 4 soldiers
- UGANDA: Bombs after war
- More UAE demining personnel arrive in LEBANON
- Cluster bombs cause decades of harm, says study
- Report indicates 400 million people live in "minefields"
- FINLAND does not endorse total ban of cluster weapons
- Honor for injured mine clearing expert
- TURKEY: Two soldiers killed by landmine
- Soldier loses foot to landmine
- Mine explosion wounds 3 children in SOMALIA (link no longer active)
- SRI LANKA: STF uncovers a claymore mine and a pressure mine
- ANGOLA: Mechanised demining programme launched
- An all-female team works precisely and fearlessly to clear minefields in rural CAMBODIA
- GICHD: A Guide to Mine Action and Explosive Remnants of War - 3rd Revised Edition
- Landmine blast wounds 4 policemen in SOMALIA
April '07
- UN asks ISRAELIS for locations of cluster attacks
- Armed group to plant more anti-personnel landmines in SRI LANKA
- African and European Unions unite to clear African continent of landmines (link no longer active)
- First national capacity for weapons clearance established in WESTERN SAHARA
- BELGIAN Defense Minister demands that ISRAEL pay for cluster munition clean-up
- Landmines still killing unsuspecting people in NEPAL (link no longer active)
- The human impact of cluster munitions
- UNICEF fights landmines in Vietnam
- US funding support for humanitarian demining in Bosnia and Herzegovina (link no longer active)
- UN Secretary-General calls for elimination of landmines
- ISRAELI Defense Secretary admits cluster bomb use a "mistake"
- Press Announcement from RONCO based on comments made at memorial service held in Kabul for the 7 Afghans killed in the deminer attack (link no longer active)
- Landmines still a crucial threat in southern SUDAN
- UGANDAN survivors plead for landmine production ban (link no longer active)
- Richard Kidd cites significant progress in removing landmines (link no longer active)
- 7 Afghans including 6 deminers working for RONCO killed in Taliban attack
- Landmines threaten the lives of children in COLOMBIA (link no longer active)
- Swiss deminers clear path for 70,000 in LAOS (link no longer active)
- Lack of international assistance plagues TAJIKISTAN mine action capabilities
- UN commits to renewed efforts in SUDAN on Mine Awareness Day
- 170 CAMBODIAN soldiers receive mine clearance training from INDIA
- UXO threat looms after recent Kinshasa Conflict in CONGO (link no longer active)
March '07
- NEW ZEALAND work clearing cluster bombs in LEBANON is much appreciated
- Clearing landmines in VIETNAM
- UNICEF Situation Report MOZAMBIQUE, 22-25 March 2007
- Landmines still kill in southeast TURKEY
- Partial UK ban on cluster munitions falls short of target
- UN Secretary-General criticizes ISRAEL and LEBANON (link no longer active)
- CLUSTER MUNITION INTERACTIVE MAP (link no longer active)
- FINLAND'S prime minister hopefuls debate postponing signing the Mine Ban Convention in 2016 (link no longer active)
- Two minefields discovered in UGANDA
- Mine clearance poses security challenges in TURKEY
- Schonstedt Instruments donates demining equipment to KENYA (link no longer active)
- CAMBODIA calls for united front on landmines from four members of ASEAN that have not signed Mine Ban Convention (link no longer active)
- BELGIUM criminalizes investment in cluster bomb manufacturers
- ISRAEL claims that SYRIANS threw 10 mines into area near Golan Heights on Saturday afternoon (link no longer active)
- WESTERN SAHARA: Polisario Front destroys second landmine stockpile (link no longer active)
- FINNISH military cannot afford cluster weapons ban (link no longer active)
- Finally, safe demining in PERU
February '07
- US clearance of unexploded cluster munitions (link no longer active)
- Cluster munitions to be banned by 2008
- NEW ZEALAND super fund to terminate investments in landmine manufacturing (link no longer active)
- Governments meet to discuss humanitarian cluster munitions treaty
- State Department co-hosts NATO partnership for Peace Trust Fund workshop (link no longer active)
- Pressure builds over AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN border landmines plan
- Cluster bomb conference seeks to address continued problems
- SOUTH AFRICA commended for cluster munitions stance
- UNICEF supports mine-risk education in south LEBANON
- Taliban rebels reinforce captured town with trenches and landmines
- US: Senators Feinstein and Leahy announce plan to continue efforts to restrict federal funds for use, sale or transfer of cluster bombs (link no longer active)
- PUERTO RICO: ridding former US bombing range of cluster bombs is a perilous task (link no longer active)
- The 'toys' that kill in LEBANON
- Peres interview with Al Jazeera: cluster bombs (link no longer active)
January '07
- ANGOLA'S landmine legacy (link no longer active)
- CAMBODIA plans to clear 28 million square meters of mined areas in 2007
- US assesses ISRAEL'S use of cluster munitions in LEBANON
- Demolition waste, damaged water infrastructure & mined agricultural land are legacies of LEBANON conflict
- UGANDA: landmines and warriors are hindering resettlement
- Ban Ki-moon's system-wide probe of UN field activities to start with NORTH KOREA
- ANGOLA: Over 7000 explosive devices (mostly anti- tank and personnel mines) deactivated near railway (link no longer active)
- BOLIVIA and CHILE build trust in efforts to work together demining heavily mined mutual border (link no longer active)
- SOUTH SUDAN'S demining priorities and other maps as of 1/2007
- LIBYA reactivates demining program (link no longer active)
- 11 mine accidents in 2006 in AZERBAIJAN
- NORWAY to help SERBIA remove NATO's cluster bombs
- Landmines causing starvation in BURMA (link no longer active)
- US supports Southeast ASIAN and BALKAN landmine removal projects (link no longer active)
- More equipment to clear landmines and unexploded ordnance in VIETNAM (link no longer active)
- Update from south LEBANON
- Update from AFGHANISTAN
- Unexploded ordnance -- killer of innocents
- UK ground troops to get state-of-the-art new robots
Cluster Munitions News - archive
December '09
- IRAQ signs cluster munition ban treaty
- BALI conference a key opportunity to ban cluster bombs in ASIA
November '09
- Living without a leg
- New global campaign targets banks funding cluster bomb producers
- LEBANON: Cluster-bomb clearing teams call for cash (link no longer active)
- MALAWI and MACEDONIA (FYR) 22nd and 23rd countries to ratify ban
- Report slams bank links to cluster bomb production
- LEBANON: MAG celebrates lifesaving clearance milestone
- UK and FRANCE: Demilitarization of MLRS Rockets
- New global campaign targets banks funding cluster bomb producers
October '09
- 1mil Danish kroner for clearing cluster bombs
- CMC Newsletter September 2009
- Report slams bank links to cluster bomb production
- UN: States urged to support swift global ban on cluster bombs
- First Committee debates issues of cluster munitions, other arms issues
- LEBANON: Cluster-bomb clearing teams call for cash
- MALAWI and MACEDONIA (FYR) 22nd and 23rd countries to ratify ban
- World Peace March starts off
- LEBANON: Swathe of cleared land returned to owners
- Is a brighter future possible for CAMBODIA?
- ITALIANS clear LEBANESE farms
- LAO PDR: Battle zone's lethal harvest
- World leaders push cluster bomb ban forward in NEW YORK
- CHILE hosts regional meeting on cluster bomb ban treaty
- CMC Newsletter - August 2009
- NGOs ask SLOVAKIA to sign Convention on Cluster Munitions
- LAOTIAN bomb hunters
September '09
- AUSTRALIA: Committee delivers report on cluster munitions convention
- Cluster bomb treaty one step closer to reality
- GHANA to ratify two Conventions on small arms
- Chronology of international movement to ban cluster bombs
- USA: Minnesota Senator to back limits on cluster-bomb use
- DanChurchAid clears cluster bombs in LEBANON
- ERITREA to pay ETHIOPIA millions for war damages
August '09
- Cluster bomb ban on track to become international law soon
- AUSTRALIA looking to toughen cluster bomb laws
- LEBABON official: ISRAEL's maps of cluster bombs useless
- In LEBANON, cluster bomb kills SYRIAN
- Three years on, ISRAELI cluster bombs keep killing and maiming
- GICHD publishes 'A Guide to Cluster Munitions
- LEBANON brothers wounded by cluster bomb
- Handicap International remembers cluster bomb victims
- Photo gallery: Trip to LEBANON (link no longer active)
- New US MCC resources on cluster bombs available
- Photo gallery: Trip to LEBANON
- Video: UXO demolition by Phoenix Clearance Ltd. In LAOS
- NEW ZEALAND: Cluster bomb bill passes first reading
- Cluster bomb bill before NEW ZEALAND parliament
- SAN MARINO and LUXEMBOURG ratify CCM
- Cluster Munitions Coalition June 2009 Newslette
July '09
- BERLIN Conference debates cluster bomb destruction (link no longer active)
- FSD Deployed to Kfar Shouba, a cluster munition affected area in South Lebanon
- SLOVENIA to ratify cluster munitions convention
- BERLIN Conference on the destruction of stockpiled cluster muntions
June '09
- SPAIN and ALBANIA push cluster bomb ban ratifications in double figure
- Millions of Cluster Bombs ready for Destruction GERMANY
- Staying true to the ban on cluster munitions
- NIGERIA signs UN convention on cluster munitions
- JAPAN's upper house approves cluster bomb ban (link no longer active)
- Mines Advisory Group clears cluster bombs in LEBANON
- Cluster munitions ban expected to come into force in 2010
- CMC Newsletter - May 2009
- NIGER 8th country to ratify cluster bomb ban
- 31 treaty signatories still have stocks
- Report: TURKEY among producers of cluster munitions
- Banning cluster munitions: Gov't policy and practice
- Women celebrate international disarmament successes
- Factbox - Cluster bombs: A deadly legacy
- CAMBODIA: Gov't urged on bomb pact
- Report: Countries destroying cluster bomb stockpiles
- Anti-cluster bomb campaign begins in Geneva
- Nations must step up to make new cluster bomb ban work
May '09
- LEBANON: Funding shortfall threatens cluster bomb demining
- Cluster Munition Coalition April Newsletter
- LEBANON bomb victim faces uncertain future
- COLOMBIA destroys last of cluster bombs (link no longer active)
- JAPAN's Lower House approves ratification of CM ban (link no longer active)
- Cluster bomb technology used for seed planting
- NORWEGIAN cluster munitions soon to be history
- UK's commitment cluster ban treaty tested
- MCC postcards advocate cluster-bomb restrictions
- NORWAY destroys cluster weapons
- CMC receives major peace aAward
April '09
- MAG LAO PDR April magazine
- UNESCO Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict
- Global Week of Action to Ban Cluster Bombs, 29 May-4 June
- SRI LANKA: Civilians dying, hospital paralyzed
- Conference on cluster munitions slated for June in GERMANY
- Using postcards to ban cluster bombs
- UN envoy: ISRAEL must hand over maps of cluster bomb locations
- BALKANS: Cluster bombs threaten thousands
- New Report: Use of Cluster Munitions by Russia and Georgia in August 2008
- CMC issues March newsletter
- CMC Newsletter March 2009 PDF
- AUSTRIA Signs Cluster Bomb Ban Convention
- U.S. Cuts Cluster Bomb Supply
- LAOS: JAPAN grants money for UXO clearance
- SERBIA: Ministries clash over CM ban
March '09
- Article features US Army's EOD team
- US lawmakes hail new curbs on cluster bomb sales
- US using robots to clear firing ranges of UXO (video)
- US bans export of most CMs as part of omnibus bill
- JAPAN approves banning production, possession of cluster bombs (link no longer active)
- First stone laid at razed refugee camp in LEBANON
- Report says thousands endangered in SERBIA by CMs
- AFGHAN security forces safely destroy munitions, UXO
- SERBIA: 'Human rights respected,' but UXO problem remains
- VIETNAM opens new bomb disposal unit
- UXO still taking toll in LAOS
- US: Washed up bomb destroyed on Martha's Vineyard
February '09
- CMC issues open letter to government of SRI LANKA
- Construction workers find bombs in Hanoi
- HRW issues updated CM information chart
- US Congress to reconsider CM protection bill
- UXO didn't stop water project in ENGLAND
- Presiding bishop calls for review of US policy on mines, cluster munitions
- Taliban's random IED attacks leave Canadian troops wary (link no longer active)
- Civilian UXO training program celebrates 10th anniversary
- FSD deploying EOD teams to GAZA
- EOD company deploys to AFGHANISTAN
- GAZANS set up exhibit of Israeli weapons
- US Army hosts public demonstration of robotic technologies for UXO removal (link no longer active)
- NORWAY blacklists shares of CM manufacturing firm
- Video: Controlled UXO detonation in IRAQ
- IRAQI Security Forces seize UXO, weapons
- ISRAELI lawyer who approved bombings under attack at university
- WW2 mortars found in US's Manila embassy
January '09
- JORDAN plans Gaza field hospital to help with UXO, other injuries
- UNICEF provides educational supplies and safe spaces for children in Gaza
- ANAMA announces clearance figures from 2008
- Two children die in UXO explosion
- SOUTH KOREA agency plans bunker-busting bomb by 2012
- NY Times correspondent answers questions about CM use, situation in GAZA
- Study finds old ordnance under sea my be toxic (link no longer active)
- CAMBODIA: UXO destoryed
- EOD teams to stay busy across AFGHANISTAN
- Cluster bomb campaigners awarded peace price
- FINLAND reserves right to use cluster munitions
- Cluster Munitions Convention Leaders Voted 2008 "Arms Control Persons of the Year"
December '08
- AFGHANISTAN: Boys killed playing with mortar shell (link no longer active)
- SRI LANKA: CM use raises international ire
- Pacific shipwrecks potentially toxic time bombs
- Irish finance minister wants 'ethical test' for investments on CMs
- CMs still threatening GEORGIA (video)
- US State Dept. answers questions on CM Treaty (link no longer active)
- FINLAND decides to keep cluster bombs
- Japanese government to pledge 6 million dollars to support victims of cluster munitions (link no longer active)
- Mother of Marine killed in Iraq seeks stronger measures on CMs (link no longer active)
- JAPAN: Defense minister says country will not acquire new cluster bombs (link no longer active)
- UK to export cluster bombs to Germany for destruction
- How the cluster munition ban was won
- HRW claims GEORGIA used defective, Israeli-made cluster bombs
- Cookies for bombs
- NEPAL CBL starts signature campaign against cluster bombs
- Cluster-bomb activists visit army deminers in SOUTH LEBANON
- ECUADOR: Quito Conference on the Convention on Cluster Munitions
November '08
- GEORGIA fired more cluster bombs than thought
- Cluster Munitions Coalition Newsletter: Issue 4, October 2008
- Human Rights Watch's updated Cluster Munition Information Chart PDF
- Fact sheet: Cluster munitions in the AMERICAS and CARIBBEAN
- The moving images behind a weapons ban
- CMC Fact Sheet: Cluster Munitions in the Middle East and North Africa PDF
- Beirut Regional Conference on Cluster Munitions
- Treaty will stigmatize use of cluster bombs
- RUSSIA: Evidence on journalist's death not enough (link no longer active)
- Video urges signatures to the People's Treaty on cluster munitions
- AUSTRALIA to sign international treaty to ban cluster bombs
- UGANDA: Blow them up!
- LAOS hosts Southeast Asia meeting on cluster bomb ban (link no longer active)
- Photo galley: Cluster bomb survivor tour
- LAO PDR: Unexploded cluster bombs hold up farming
- DUTCH journalist killed by RUSSIAN cluster bomb (link no longer active)
October '08
- Global week of action against cluster bombs 27 October-2 November
- UGANDA army backs move to rid country of cluster weapons
- NGO, Diana fueled campaign to ban cluster bombs (link no longer active)
- Fact Sheet: Cluster Munitions in the ASIA-PACIFIC region PDF
- CCW considers limits on cluster munitions
- LEBANESE House Speaker demands compensation for cluster bomb victims
- Oslo process paved the way to cluster bomb ban (link no longer active)
- Media Invited on Trip to Most Cluster Bomb Affected Country: LAO PDR
- Cluster Munition Coalition September 2008 Newsletter PDF
- Stopping cluster bombs (Part 1): Gathering data in war zones (link no longer active)
- Event to raise awareness of cluster bombs, landmines
- EU to urge RUSSIA, GEORGIA to defuse unexploded cluster bombs (link no longer active)
- Campaign against landmines visits Earlham College Monday (link no longer active)
- Senators call on Secretary Gates to scrap cluster bombs
- Cluster bomb survivors tour launches in midwest
- Ban Bus drives through Europe
- CCM signing conference-Deadline to register: 10 October
- Cluster bombs survivor tour Friday, October 10th
- RWANDA: Mine victims appeal to government
- African countries agree to sign international treaty on banning cluster bombs
- ISRAEL switches from U.S. cluster bombs, buys local
- Africa continues to lead the way on cluster bomb ban PDF
- South East Asia Regional Conference on the Convention on Cluster Munitions to be held in October
- Africa and the Oslo process to ban cluster munitions PDF
- 'Smart' cluster bombs spark fears (link no longer active)
September '08
- PHILIPPINES: Expert gives tips on handling bombs
- FINLAND: Defense chief warns of cluster bomb treaty fallout
- Russians clear NATO bombs in SERBIA
- New Factsheet: Overview of CMs in Eastern Europe, the Caucuses and Central Asia PDF
- AFRICA: Cluster Munitions to be discussed
- Insecurity in GEORGIA remains high putting the elderly at greatest risk
- Cluster bomb ban meeting to be held in Sofia, BULGARIA
- The US government plans to clean New Jersey beach of UXO (link no longer active)
- POLAND sees nothing wrong in cluster bombs
- IRISH Bill to stop pensions investment in cluster bombs
- '£30m' to destroy cluster devices
- Discovery of three WWII-era bombs forces GERMAN town's evacuation
- NPA condemns RUSSIAN and GEORGIAN use of cluster bombs
- Negotiations at the CCW enter into a decisive stage
- GEORGIA: MoD says it uses cluster bombs, but not in populated areas
- TOKYO requests 4.8 trillion yen in outlays for FY 2009
- Cluster Munition Coalition condemns GEORGIAN use of cluster bombs
- US mine-clearing agency to stop work in SOUTHERN LEBANON as funds dry up.
- US Army works to defeat explosively formed penetrators in BAGHDAD
- GEORGIA admits to dropping cluster bombs
- U.N. landmine clearing Peacekeeper killed in LEBANON
- UNAMA Update Summer 2008 now available
- SERBIA: RUSSIAN help in cluster bomb clean-up valuable
- UN: Conference on disarmament hears from GEORGIA and RUSSIA on South Ossetia
- 'Arsenal of weapons' at Ni?airport
- Cash crisis hits LEBANON cluster bomb clearance
August '08
- IRISH Foreign Minister 'concerned' over cluster bomb use in GEORGIA
- Human Rights Watch warns of unexploded bombs in GEORGIA
- Lessons on cluster bombs from LEBANON and ISRAEL (link no longer active)
- Two years on from war in LEBANON progress on cluster munitions
- Rights group accuses RUSSIA of using cluster bombs (link no longer active)
- New cluster bomb casualties two years after the LEBANON war
- SOUTH AFRICA: A run to ban cluster bombs
- Remember LEBANON on 13 August
- Sofia Conference on Cluster Munitions registration form: Register by 13 August
- Kampala Conference on Cluster Munitions: Register by 13 August
- CMC briefing paper on Convention on Cluster Munitions
- LEBANESE MAG worker wounded by a cluster bomb in southern LEBANON (link no longer active)
- Documentary follows civil society advocacy at Dublin CM Conference VIDEO
- Further progress made toward a new CCW protocol on cluster munitions
July '08
- Fires rage amid cluster bombs and mines in LEBANON
- Helping cluster ban volunteers to paper into practice
- SPAIN to move fast on destroying cluster bombs
- ISRAEL didn't know of cluster bomb use (link no longer active)
- UNITED STATES seeks new agreement on cluster munitions
- INDIAN peacekeepers help victims of cluster bombs walk again (link no longer active)
- Cluster Munition Coalition issues statement to CCW Working Group (link no longer active)
- Group of Experts to CCW meets this month to discuss cluster munitions
- Activists decry new Pentagon policy on cluster munitions (link no longer active)
- Spain to ban cluster bombs 'soon'
- U.S. policy on cluster munitions (link no longer active)
- Cluster Munition Coalition statement to the CCW Group of Governmental Experts (link no longer active)
- Bombs Away? The Dublin Cluster Bomb Ban
- Bomb Hunters
- CAMBODIA adopts CCM (link no longer active)
- Local Voices, Global Ban grant applications deadline: 2 JULY (link no longer active)
- Cluster bombs have cost south LEBANON farmers at least $22 million
- Guitar amp signed by Paul McCartney auctioned for cluster muntions charity (link no longer active)
- Questions and answers on the cluster munitions convention
June '08
- JAPAN: Government seeks cluster bomb alternatives
- Goodbye, cluster munitions: Will we regret it?
- Alternative needed to cluster bombs
- Why cluster bombs are a deadly legacy
- Treaty backers predict that U.S. will no longer use cluster bombs (link no longer active)
- Report: The economic impact of cluster munition contamination in LEBANON
- Banning cluster bombs: Light in the darknes of conflicts
- Opinion: Cluster-bomb ban not as ineffective as it might seem (link no longer active)
- UNICEF says new global ban on cluster bombs will save millions of young lives
- Opinion: Cluster munitions ban an international humanitarian law milestone
- International ban adds to pressure to make cluster bombs smarter
- Cluster munitions agreement is 'best available compromise'
- U.S. cluster bombs were faulty
- Cluster bomb survivors applaud strong language on victim assistance
- Observers laud landmark cluster bomb ban
- U.S. wary of treaty banning cluster munitions
- Wrong bomb' row over MoD payouts
- First 'Cluster Bomb Olympics' held in Washington DC
May '08
- Ban on cluster bombs "very close"
- U.S. Cluster Munitions Policy (link no longer active)
- Due to ISRAELI use cluster bombs, S. LEBANON remains a minefield
- Pope backs global ban on cluster bombs
- Negotiaters gather in Dublin to ban cluster bombs
- GLOBAL: Timeline of cluster munitions use
- Dublin conference targets cluster bomb ban
- AFGHANISTAN: UXO destruction may have caused damage to religious statue
- Senate hearing debates U.S. position on CCW treaty, cluster munitions
- Dublin photography gallery hosts exhibit on impact of cluster munitions
- Wartime cluster bombs still reap deadly harvest in LAOS
April '08
- Report from the Wellington Conference on Cluster Munitions PDF
- Celebrities sign petition against bombs (link no longer active)
- NETHERLANDS destroying CBU-87 cluster bombs
- MEXICO/ECUADOR joint statement includes commitment to cluster bomb ban process
- UNDP publication: Prohibiting Cluster Munitions: Our Chance to Protect Civilians
- Faith leaders' appeal for an international treaty to ban cluster munitions
- ZAMBIA: Championing ban of cluster bombs
- Make It Happen: A Photographic Potrait of the Human Suffering Caused by Cluster Munitions (link no longer active)
- Statement by the Cluster Munition Coalition to the Group of Governmental Experts of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (link no longer active)
- The terrible human cost of cluster bombs
- US to skip cluster bomb meeting in Dublin, focus on Geneva talks
- NEW ZEALAND Super Fund to stop investing in cluster bombs
- International Mine Awareness Day to kick off a month of activity in U.S. to achieve cluster bomb ban (link no longer active)
- Strong landmark African Declaration to ban cluster bombs
- African Cluster Munitions conference underway in Zambia
- Nearly 20 African countries take part in cluster munitions treaty effort
March '08
- MSU's Ken Rutherford appearing on cluster munitions panel at Harvard Law School (link no longer active)
- LEBANON: This Amputation Won't Be the Last
- Cluster munitions talks gain steam
- World Politics Review: two international efforts to impose cluster bombs restrictions
- Draft treaty reached for cluster munitions ban
- Opening Address by UNICEF Official at NEW ZEALAND Wellington Conference
February '08
- New treaty prohibiting cluster munitions needs clear standards to protect civilians
- International conference opens on banning cluster bombs
- Campaign to clear cluster bombs is still a work in progress
- Wellington Conference to address cluster munitions threat
- "Bombs Left Behind" premieres Feb. 12th on HDNet (link no longer active)
- U.S. Statement on Humanitarians Aspects of Cluster Munitions
- Ambassador: China attaches importance to cluster munitions issue
- US plans cluster bomb task force
- LEBANON: deminers find cluster bomb sites without help from ISREAL
