The International Campaign to Ban Landmines released their annual report yesterday, November 12. The report, compiled by a worldwide network of researchers, tracks each country’s progress in eradicating landmine threat, and includes updated numbers such as annual casualties, landmines removed, and risk education recipients.
Overall, the results are encouraging. In the past decade, over 2.2 million anti-personnel mines, 250,000 anti-vehicle mines and 17 million other explosives left over from wars have been removed. But there is still a long way to go, especially in aiding landmine survivors:
Despite this high level of overall funding, over the past decade victim assistance has made the least progress of all the major sectors of mine action, with funding and action falling far short of what was needed. Most efforts remained focused on medical care and physical rehabilitation, often only when supported by international organizations and funding, rather than on promoting economic self-reliance for survivors, their families, and communities.
Check out the full report here. And learn how you can help landmine surivors by visiting the Survivor Corps website.
November 13, 2009, 3:59pm Comments
