Landmine Action

A NETWORK OF MEMBERS
COMMITTED TO ACTION

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

Our aims:

Landmine Action has three main aims:

to educate the public, decision makers and opinion formers about the humanitarian, developmental and human rights impact of landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW)

to achieve the improvement, universalisation and full implementation of international legislation covering landmines and other conventional weapons.

to assist in the relief of the effects of landmines by securing resources for the provision of humanitarian mine action, with specific emphasis on communities in immediate post-conflict areas.

How we achieve our aims

In mine-affected countries

Training and capacity building

Expert technical advice

provision of resources

In the UK

Landmine Action co-ordinates a network of UK-based organisations involved in advocacy and awareness-raising work. These include specialist NGOs and leading development and human rights agencies

As the UK arm of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Landmine Action continues to:

advocate the universalisation of the Ottowa Landmine Treaty and press the last missing countries to sign the Ottawa Convention
monitor the implementation of the Treaty's obligations

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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