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Threats to the Global Norms on Landmines and Cluster Munitions

• 4 July 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in Cambodia, Libya, Sudan, Thailand, USA
Tags: Cambodia, Cluster Munition Convention, cluster munitions, landmine treaty, landmines, Libya, Mine Ban Treaty, norms, Ottawa Convention, Sudan, Thailand, USA

LA Times: ‘Landmines in South Korea are a Threat to Civilians’

• 6 January 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in South Korea, United States of America, USA
Tags: DMZ, John Glionna, Landmine Monitor, landmines, Los Angeles Times, Mine Ban Treaty, Ottawa Convention, South Korea, USA, UXO

Op-Ed: Obama’s landmine stance doesn’t match Nobel rhetoric

• 15 December 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in United States of America, USA
Tags: Cluster Munition Convention, cluster munitions, landmines, Mine Ban Treaty, Nobel, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama, Ottawa Convention, Peace Prize, The Examiner, The Guardian

Cartoon of Obama’s Landmine Policy

• 30 November 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in United States of America, USA
Tags: Germany, landmines, Mine Ban Treaty, Neues Deutschland, Obama, Ottawa Convention, Rainer Hachfeld, USA

My Op-Ed in The Guardian on Obama’s Refusal to Sign the Landmine Ban

• 27 November 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in UK, United States of America, USA
Tags: Cluster Munition Convention, cluster munitions, Landmine, Mine Ban Treaty, Obama, Ottawa Convention, The Guardian

Former US Mine Action Czars Call on Obama to Join Ottawa and Oslo Treaties

• 23 April 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in United States of America, USA
Tags: Baltimore Sun, Barack Obama, Bush, cluster munitions, Convention on Cluster Munitions, Donald Steinberg, George W. Bush, Karl F. Inderfurth, landmines, mine action, Obama, Oslo Convention, Ottawa Convention

China’s Landmines and Cluster Munitions Policy

• 12 February 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in China
Tags: Africa, Amended Protocol on Landmines, Angola, Burundi, CCW, Chad, China Defense White Paper, China in Africa, China's National Defense in 2008, China's Role in Africa, cluster munitions, Cluster Munitions Convention, conventional weapons, Darfur, Demining, disarmament, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, explosive remnants of war, Group of Governmental Experts on Cluster Munitions., Guinea-Bissau, Landmine Monitor, landmines, Lebanon, Mozambique, Norway, Ottawa Convention, Peru, Sudan, UNIFIL, USA

USCBL: ‘Tell Obama to Ban Landmines and Cluster Munitions’

• 2 February 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Iraq, Kosovo, Laos, United States of America, Vietnam
Tags: Cluster Munition Convention, cluster munitions, landmines, Lynn Bradach, Ottawa Convention, Robert Gates, Travis Bradach-Nall, US Campaign to Ban Landmines, USA, USCBL

Britain Agrees to Demine Falklands/Malvinas

• 1 December 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in UK
Tags: Article 5, Demining, Falklands, International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Landmine Action, landmines, Malvina, Mine Ban Convention, Mine Ban Treaty, mine free, Ottawa Convention, UK

Time for a New US Mine Action Agenda

• 2 November 2008 • 6 Comments

Posted in Uncategorized, USA
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, CCW Explosive Remnants of War, Cindy McCain, Cluster Munition Convention, cluster munitions, Convention on Conventional Weapons, Demining, Department of Defense, HALO Trust, Iraq, John McCain, landmines, Leahy War Victims Fund, Mine Ban Treaty, Ottawa Convention, State Department, US, USAID, UXO, WRA

Political Minefields

Threats to the Global Norms on Landmines and Cluster Munitions

LA Times: ‘Landmines in South Korea are a Threat to Civilians’

Op-Ed: Obama’s landmine stance doesn’t match Nobel rhetoric

Cartoon of Obama’s Landmine Policy

My Op-Ed in The Guardian on Obama’s Refusal to Sign the Landmine Ban

Former US Mine Action Czars Call on Obama to Join Ottawa and Oslo Treaties

USCBL: ‘Tell Obama to Ban Landmines and Cluster Munitions’

Britain Agrees to Demine Falklands/Malvinas

Time for a New US Mine Action Agenda

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