Informes

KABUL, 13 May (IRIN) - As part of its commitment under the Mine Ban Treaty, Afghanistan has begun destroying stockpiled landmines. In a UN-government joint venture, the first batch of 536 antipersonnel mines and 20 antitank mines were detonated…

NEW YORK, 8 May 2003 -- In response to attacks on staff and vehicles on 3 and 5 May, the United Nations has suspended mine clearance operations on areas of the road between the Afghan capital Kabul, and the…

Landmine Update is a quarterly newsletter prepared and disseminated by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). It reflects the activities of the ICBL, its member organizations, its partner agencies and pro-ban governments in a three-month…

Introduction On July 28th, 2002, his Excellency President Hamid Karzai announced that Afghanistan would become a State Party to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (also know…

Prepared by Norwegian People's Aid For the February 2003 Meeting of the Intersessional Standing Committee on Mine Clearance, Mine Risk Education and Mine Action Technologies of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty Destruction of Anti-Personnel Mines in Mined Areas and Status of…

A dedicated team of Afghan trainers and their dogs are perfecting techniques that are now in demand in trouble spots across the world. By Danish Karokhel in Kabul (ARR No. 41, 20-Dec-02) With an estimated 10 per cent of the world's entire…

The Landmine Update is the International Campaign to Ban Landmines quarterly newsletter. This edition is followed by a calendar of upcoming events (available online). To date, 130 countries have ratified the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, and…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] KARTE-YE PARVAN, 22 October (IRIN) As hundreds of thousands of returned refugees return to areas of Afghanistan that were once battlefields, one of the most important and life-saving programmes…

The Landmine Update is the International Campaign to Ban Landmines quarterly newsletter. This edition is complemented by a calendar of upcoming events. To date, 145 countries have signed the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, and 128 have…

World Embraces Ban Five Years After Treaty Handful Of Countries Continue To Use Author/Origin: ICBL (icbl@icbl.org) (13-Sep-2002) More than 34 million stockpiled antipersonnel mines have been destroyed by 61 states, including seven million in the past year, according to a global report released…