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The View covers breaking news and media on the Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World.

From November 30th to December 4th, 2009, hundreds of international organizations will meet in Cartagena, Colombia to assess the impact of the 1997 Ottawa Treaty, a watershed agreement between states and nations to ban all anti-personnel mines.

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    United States provides Mozambique 2 million USD in landmine assistance

    Photo: Guy Oliver/IRIN

    To date, the U.S. has provided Mozambique more than 47 million USD in assistance under its Humanitarian Mine Action program. In related news, a recent IRIN article provides a comprehensive, insider’s look into the work of HALO, Mozambique’s biggest humanitarian deminer:

    “The deminer’s world is the square metre that he or she kneels before, which is swept with mine-detectors about 35 times on average, only pausing between each sweep to run a piece of metal across the detector’s head to ensure it is working. Tirebuck expects the terrain will allow for each deminer to clear about 40m of a corridor 1m wide each day.”



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    November 03, 2009, 1:37pm   Comments

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