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Campaign to Ban Landmines
Deadly artifacts of past wars, landmines are responsible for the death and maiming of thousands of innocent civilian men, women, and children in countries already ravaged by the economic, environmental, and psychological scars of violent conflict. Most countries have banned the weapon, but not yet the United States.
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PHR's Research and Advocacy Fueled the Ban Landmine Movement In 1997, the Norwegian Nobel Committee applauded the International Campaign to Ban Landmines for changing a ban from "a vision to a feasible reality."
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The Global Landmine Problem
and the US Role in It
Three quarters of the world's nations have joined the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, including virtually all of NATO, except for the United States.
The US State Department estimates that fewer than one in four landmine amputees is fitted with a proper prosthesis.
The United States has one of the largest mine arsenals in the world.
Though the United States has not produced, sold, or traded antipersonnel landmines in many years, it is one of only about 14 countries that refuses to agree that it will never again produce the weapon.
Landmines have injured and killed thousands of US and allied troops in every US-fought confpct since World War II, including dozens recently in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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