Anyone who believes that our military need these repulsive weapons, need only listen to our own Vietnam Veterans:
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Campaign for a Landmine Free World is a comprehensive program addressing the global landmine crisis: it operates post-conflict rehabilitation clinics and landmine awareness programs around-the-world, it conducts mine impact surveys in landmine-affected nations, it educates the public on the worldwide landmine problem, and works to ensure that the US government will join the Ottawa Convention.
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Post-Conflict Rehabilitation and Landmine Awareness
Campaign for a Landmine Free World provides physical rehabilitation services to the innocent victims of war in post-conflict societies. It operates clinics in Cambodia, Vietnam, El Salvador, Angola and Sierra Leone. In addition to these physical rehabilitation programs, Campaign for a Landmine Free World began mine awareness and victims' assistance programs for the people of Kosovo in 1999.
Global Surveys and Landmine Removal
Campaign for a Landmine Free World leads an international consortium conducting mine impact surveys, the first step in a comprehensive mine clearance program. We coordinate an unprecedented global effort to catalog and analyze the precise social and economic impacts caused by landmines and to support the enhanced effectiveness of mine clearance, mine awareness and victim assistance activities.
Public Awareness and Education
Campaign for a Landmine Free World is working closely with the American government to ensure that the United States joins the Ottawa Convention banning the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of antipersonnel landmines. As the co-founder of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize-winning landmine campaign - our organization is acknowledged as the leader in the worldwide effort to eradicate this terrible weapon.
Our "Concerts for a Landmine Free World" series takes the issue of landmines directly to the American public - with a schedule of musical events that feature some of America's most well-known singer-songwriters: Emmylou Harris, Sheryl Crow, Steve Earle, Bruce Cockburn, Nanci Griffith and many others. |
