West Virginia Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster BombsEvery World Cup tournament inspires young people worldwide to be the soccer players/ footballers of tomorrow. Yet for those living in cluster munition contaminated countries, this dream remains a difficult reality. A cluster munition, also known as a cluster bomb, is a weapon containing multiple explosive submunitions. Like landmines, these submunitions can remain a fatal […]
LANDMINES AND CLUSTER MUNITIONS represent an insidious and persistent danger to children affected by war. Children are particularly vulnerable to these weapons in a number of ways. If they are too young to read or cannot, signs posted to warn them of the presence of mines and remnants of war are useless. Children are far more likely […]
Credible evidence indicates that the Saudi-led coalition used banned cluster munitions supplied by the United States in airstrikes against Houthi forces in Yemen, Human Rights Watch said. Cluster munitions pose long-term dangers to civilians and are prohibited by a 2008 treaty adopted by 116 countries, though not Saudi Arabia, Yemen, or the United States. Photographs, video, and other […]
(Washington DC, April 2, 2015) President Barack Obama should commit to end U.S. use of cluster munitions, said the Cluster Munition Coalition U.S. in a letter to the president on the eve of the International Day for Mine Awareness and Mine Action. “The U.S. should renounce the use of cluster munitions under any circumstances and join the […]
Long after wars are waged some weapons remain a lurking threat to civilians in the peacetime that follows. Landmines are indiscriminate weapons that wait underground for years and sometimes decades maiming and killing children, farmers and everyday citizens who happen upon them. “LEND YOUR LEG” Remangate “Roll-up” Campaign began when people were asked to roll-up their pant leg to […]
PSALM students recognized the 16th anniversary of the MINE BAN TREATY ENTRY INTO FORCE. March 1, 2015 marks exactly 16 years since the Mine Ban Treaty entered into force and began making a difference in mine-affected communities globally – saving lives by ensuring the removal and destruction of landmines, as well as providing assistance to […]
Until the 1990s, antipersonnel landmines had been used by most armed forces of the world, in one form or another, causing tens of thousands of casualties a year and creating many hardships for affected communities that could no longer safely access land, buildings, and natural resources. The horrendous effect of landmines on communities throughout the […]
“The Most Vulnerable” Portraits of Children Survivors of Landmines and Cluster Munitions By PSALM Students opened Friday, January 9th,at the MONONGALIA ARTS CENTER, 107 High Street, MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA, USA. PSALM students displayed portraits and presented an art installation to raise awareness about […]
Fewer people were killed and injured by landmines in 2013 than in any previous year, and nearly all use and production of the weapon has ceased, said the latest annual report of the Nobel Prize-winning International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Landmine Monitor 2014 was released on the seventeenth anniversary of the signing of the Mine […]
A ban on cluster bombs In 2008 governments negotiated an international treaty, formally known as the Convention on Cluster Munitions, that bans the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of cluster bombs. It also prohibits all countries that have joined the Convention to assist anyone in any activity banned under the Convention, such as the production […]