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Landmine Action co-ordinates a network of UK-based agencies and charities who campaign and advocate on landmines and explosive remnants of war as well as having programmes in the field.

Network members include large organisations such as Oxfam, Amnesty International, and Save the Children as well as smaller ones such as the Cambodia Trust, and Handicap International UK.

For a full list of members and links to their websites, go to Contacts

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About Landmine Action

Landmine Action works to save lives and livelihoods through the elimination of landmines and other explosive remnants of war (ERW).

Helping to fight a continuing threat

  • Landmines and ERW cause deaths and injuries to people as they attempt to carry out their everyday activities.
  • They deny communities access to their most vital resources,to grazing and arable land, to water sources and sanitation, to health care and education.
  • They deny movement and block infrastructure, leaving communities socially and economically isolated.
  • They inhibit post-conflict reconstruction.

Mines contaminate more than 80 nations, many of them the world's poorest. Despite the presence of international legislation to ban the landmine, many mines remain in the ground or in stockpiles and 42 countries have yet to sign up to the legislation; these include the US, Russia, China, Pakistan, Finland, Sri Lanka and India.

Co-ordinating role

Landmine Action co-ordinates a network of more than 50 organisations in the UK (see left). It is the UK arm of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and a founding member of the Cluster Munition Coalition. Landmine Action provides the secretariat to the UK Parliament's All Party Landmine Eradication Group.

Research and fieldwork

  • We are engaged in a range of policy research projects, including an ongoing survey of the global impact of explosive remnants of war.
  • We are working with national partners to deliver education and awareness-raising projects in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, India, Bangladesh and Burma.
  • We are supporting the implementation of humanitarian mine action programmes with national NGO partners across the Sudan.

For more information on landmines, unexploded ordnance and their impact on communities, go to The Problem. For published material, research documents and photographs go to Resources.

News

TWO AWARDS SCOOPED

Landmine Action's investigations with BBC Radio 4's Today programme into the alleged illegal sale of anti-personnel mines by PW Defence won the Amnesty International Award for radio in 2003.

Our sponsor The Co-operative Bank won Business in the Community's 2003 Cause-Related Marketing Award for Excellence 2003, for its campaigning work with Landmine Action.

 

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