ABOUT US
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines-Australian Network Inc is popularly known as the Australian Network to Ban Landmines. We are a non-profit, non-political organisation with no paid staff.
The Network works towards:
Universalisation of the
Mine Ban Treaty (Ottawa Treaty) to ban the use, production, stockpiling
and transfer of antipersonnel landmines
Funding and resources
for landmine clearance and landmine awareness programs.
Funding and resources
for landmine survivors.
The ANBL also campaigns against Cluster Munitions
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Landmines and Cluster Bombs do not discriminate for age, gender, or occupation.
The Mine Ban Treaty
The Mine Ban Treaty, sometimes called the
Ottowa Treaty came into force on March 1 1999.
Over the past 10 years, the number of countries
joining the treaty has continued to grow—from 71 as of 1 March 1999 to 156 as of 1 March 2009. Underthe treaty’s guidance States Parties have cleared and returned to productive use large tracts of land; educated mine-affected communities about therisk of antipersonnel mines and other unexploded ordnance; provided support to and protected the rights of landmine survivors; and destroyed millions of stockpiled antipersonnel mines, ensuring they can never be planted in the earth again. Today, use of antipersonnel mines is the exception rather than the rule, and the trade in these weapons has virtually stopped. Thanks to the advance of mine clearance and risk education programs, the number of new
landmine casualties has steadily decreased.
However, many challenges still remain on the roadt o a mine-free world, especially in the areas of mine clearance, stockpile destruction, and ensuring real and lasting change in the lives of landmine survivors,their families and communities.
For more information on the mine ban treaty go to
:http://www.icbl.org/Treaties/MBT/Treaty-Basics
