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  • The Ottawa Convention: Signatories and States-Parties
    Fact Sheets & Briefs
    March 4, 2013

    March 2013
  • The Ottawa Convention at a Glance
    Fact Sheets & Briefs
    March 4, 2013

    March 2013
  • Mine Policy Review Near End, U.S. Says
    Arms Control Today
    January 16, 2013

    The Obama administration is nearing the end of its ongoing, three-year-long review of its landmine policy and expects to announce the results in 2013, a U.S. official said Dec. 6.
  • Nigeria Clears Mined Areas
    Arms Control Today
    July 7, 2011

    Nigeria announced on June 20 that it had cleared all mined areas from its territory, making it the 17th country to declare itself mine free.
  • Mine, Cluster Bomb Use Reported in Libya
    Arms Control Today
    May 3, 2011

    There is evidence that the Libyan government has deployed both cluster munitions and landmines during recent clashes with rebels and that rebel groups have used landmines in the conflict despite pledges not to do so.
  • Israel Passes Landmine Removal Bill
    Arms Control Today
    April 4, 2011

    The Israeli Knesset last month approved a bill paving the way for the removal of “non-operational” anti-personnel landmines in Israel through the establishment of a national mine action authority.
  • Mine Ban Treaty: Time for a Positive U.S. Decision
    Issue Briefs
    February 28, 2011

    Volume 2, Issue 2

    March 1 marks the 12th anniversary of the 1999 entry into force of the Mine Ban Treaty, which seeks to eliminate the use of one of the most destructive and indiscriminate weapons of war. It has been over a year since the Barack Obama administration began a comprehensive review of its landmines policy. During those months, U.S. and international leaders have made a clear case that now is the time for the United States to join with the global consensus and accede to the treaty.
  • At Mine Ban Meeting, U.S. Still Mum on Policy
    Arms Control Today
    January 10, 2011

    For the second year in a row, the United States sent an official delegation to the annual meeting of parties to the Mine Ban Treaty, but Washington has not indicated whether it will join
  • Arms Experts Welcome Nobel Laureate Call for Obama to Join Mine Ban Treaty
    Press Room
    November 30, 2010

    Experts at the Arms Control Association welcomed the call for President Obama to join Mine Ban Treaty made today by 15 past Nobel Peace Prize winners.
  • Mine Ban Treaty by the Numbers
    Issue Briefs
    November 23, 2010

    Volume 1, Number 37

    Last year the Obama administration announced that it was conducting a comprehensive review of its landmine policy, including whether the United States should join the 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, also known as the Mine Ban Treaty. States-parties will meet next week, Nov. 29 to Dec. 3, in Geneva to review the treaty.