Campaign news, reports on the ICBL, interviews with the ICBL
Myanmar’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, U Wunna Maung Lwin, stated at a meeting in Phnom Penh, that the country is seriously considering joining the Mine Ban Treaty, along with other disarmament conventions, as part of its state reforms. The Foreign Minister was attending a meeting of ASEAN Foreign Ministers, H.E. Read more…
Photo Exhibition shown at the Eleventh Meeting of States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty in Phnom Penh, Cambodia Photo journalistic presentation of the lives of some of the victims of landmines living along Thailand’s border with Burma. URL : http://www.flickr.com/photos/minefreeworld/sets/72157629443191444/detail/ Financial support provided by the International Campaign to Ban Read more…
The Landmine Monitor report, the annual report of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (1997 Nobel Peace Co-Laureate) was released in Bangkok yesterday. Included was the annual updated report on Myanmar/Burma. Globally, Myanmar/Burma is one of four states whose formal armed forces use antipersonnel mines (the others are Israel, Syria Read more…
The Myanmar Information Management Unit [UN MIMU] has released two maps which show townships with a known hazard due to the presence of antipersonnel mines, and the number of victims per township in 2010-2011. This is the third map produced in a collaboration between MIMU in Yangon and Landmine & Read more…
Myanmar/Burma continues to produce the World’s Largest Landmine Victims Pa Hae Po arrives after a difficult trip from the Burma-Thai border at the FAE Hospital in Lampang, northern Thailand. September 2011. Photo: Friends of the Asian Elephant Halt Mine Use in Burma, 30 September 2011 On 3 August 2010 an Read more…
Agence France Presse, Danger underfoot in Myanmar war zones, Daniel Rook Article interviews two mine victims from Karen State of Burma, both of whom were receiving assistance at Mae Tao Clinic on the Burma/Thai border. Also interviews with Landmine Monitor and Mae Tao Clinic prosthetic technician. Article can be accessed Read more…