Mine Action News - archive
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- Wartime ammunition found in north NAMIBIA (link no longer active)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- Taliban commander perishes by his own landmine (link no longer active)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)
Cluster Munitions News - archive
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
