Add to ORKGColombia continues to be the country with the highest number of new anti-personnel landmine victims in the world, with 10 other countries on the American continents having problems with mines as well. This situation, however, seems not to exist for the international news media. Even specialized publications seldom show a picture or publish an article about Central or South America; consequently, most people still believe that the landmine problem is confined exclusively to Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia
Although the fighting is long over, a number of anti-personnel landmines still remain in Chile, posi...
More than 125 representatives from across the Hemisphere met in Bogotá from November 12 through 14, ...
The presence of unexploded ordnance and anti-personnel mines in regions of Colombia has displaced fa...
As a country plagued with landmines, Colombia has faced a number of challenges relating to victim as...
With a majority of Colombia’s municipalities reporting landmine or ordnance incidents since 1990, th...
Recognizing that children are the segment of the population most vulnerable to mine-affected areas, ...
Nearly a decade after launching an effort to build national capacity to clear landmines from its ter...
Landmines are indiscriminate weapons, wounding and killing not only soldiers but women and children ...
Among the great tragedies produced by the armed conflict in Colombia, antipersonnel mines (MAP) have...
In 1990, Nicaragua registered approximately 135,000 mines buried within its national territory and a...
Landmines and unexploded ordnance have had an enormous effect on countries in the Western Hemisphere...
Mr. Porfirio Gomez is a Mine Awareness Expert in Nicaragua. Though he suffers the loss of one leg, h...
Today, one of the populations in the world that suffers the most from landmine use by armed non-stat...
On December 10, 2002, Costa Rica declared itself the first country free from anti-personnel landmine...
Situated between Chile and Ecuador, next to the South Pacific Ocean, Peru faced a decade of military...
Although the fighting is long over, a number of anti-personnel landmines still remain in Chile, posi...
More than 125 representatives from across the Hemisphere met in Bogotá from November 12 through 14, ...
The presence of unexploded ordnance and anti-personnel mines in regions of Colombia has displaced fa...
As a country plagued with landmines, Colombia has faced a number of challenges relating to victim as...
With a majority of Colombia’s municipalities reporting landmine or ordnance incidents since 1990, th...
Recognizing that children are the segment of the population most vulnerable to mine-affected areas, ...
Nearly a decade after launching an effort to build national capacity to clear landmines from its ter...
Landmines are indiscriminate weapons, wounding and killing not only soldiers but women and children ...
Among the great tragedies produced by the armed conflict in Colombia, antipersonnel mines (MAP) have...
In 1990, Nicaragua registered approximately 135,000 mines buried within its national territory and a...
Landmines and unexploded ordnance have had an enormous effect on countries in the Western Hemisphere...
Mr. Porfirio Gomez is a Mine Awareness Expert in Nicaragua. Though he suffers the loss of one leg, h...
Today, one of the populations in the world that suffers the most from landmine use by armed non-stat...
On December 10, 2002, Costa Rica declared itself the first country free from anti-personnel landmine...
Situated between Chile and Ecuador, next to the South Pacific Ocean, Peru faced a decade of military...
Although the fighting is long over, a number of anti-personnel landmines still remain in Chile, posi...
More than 125 representatives from across the Hemisphere met in Bogotá from November 12 through 14, ...
The presence of unexploded ordnance and anti-personnel mines in regions of Colombia has displaced fa...