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One pants leg up is the norm in Geneva today

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:20:42 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva is lending legs 4 April to the UN’s international day for landmine action: around the world, for the fourth such day, people are rolling up one pants leg to show solidarity with efforts to ban landmines and rid the world of those already planted. The Swiss federal government in Bern today [...]

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S Sudan agrees to land mine ban treaty; fears grow over cross-border bombing

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:40:06 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Friday 11 November was a day of rising fears internationally that tensions are building along the Sudan-South Sudan border after a series of bombs were dropped just inside South Sudan’s Unity state, hitting a refugee camp. Several Geneva-based humanitarian groups expressed their growing concern Friday. And then late Friday came some good [...]

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Demining group condemns Syria’s new Lebanese border mines

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:58:35 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Syria has reportedly become the fourth nation to lay down new landmines in 2011, according to ICBL, the Nobel Peace Prize International Coalition to Ban Landmines, which has strongly condemned the development. Reports have been surfacing, starting the last weekend in October, that Syria has put down antipersonnel land mines along its [...]

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Libya uses landmines, Nigeria gets rid of them

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:30:10 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Concern over Libya’s use of landmines in the conflict that began in February, and praise for Nigeria, which has destroyed its last landmines, have been part of the agenda at meetings in Geneva of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention’s Standing Committees. The meetings are taking place from 20 to 24 June and [...]

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Tango Concert to benefit demining of a Palestinian Village

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 26 May 2011 21:22:10 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Villagers of Husan, in the West Bank could benefit from an Israeli-Palestinian initiative to clear the territory of landmines. Philanthropists in Switzerland have decided to join in the cause by throwing a New Tango benefit concert in Tannay, Canton Vaud, an evening of delightful music for a good cause. Also see GenevaLunch’s story on the [...]

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Landmines attacked on two fronts to diminish their impact

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:30:22 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Landmine groups meeting in Cambodia this week are calling for more countries to sign the 1997 Landmine Ban Treaty. They are marking International Mine Awareness Day 4 April by drawing attention to the case of Cambodia, one of the world’s most heavily affected countries, with 44,000 survivors. States Parties the convention, [...]

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Libya using anti-personnel mines, says Geneva group

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:16:18 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Libya has been laying new landmines, says Geneva-based International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). The group said in a statement issued Thursday 31 March that it strongly condemns “the reported use of antipersonnel mines by the Libyan Armed Forces in recent fighting with rebels in eastern Libya.” More than 50 antipersonnel [...]

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11-year-old shifts minds on mines

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:20:54 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Israeli mine survivor’s uncomplicated prose begs for clearer political thinking Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Daniel Yuval is 11, an Israeli sixth grader who is in Geneva to make one thing perfectly clear to the world: it should get rid of its landmines and not another single child should be hurt by one. He appears to [...]

Demining makes “record-breaking progress” in 2009

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:27:08 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Nearly 4,000 people were victims, yet figure was lowest on record Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Landmine Monitor 2010, released 24 November in Geneva, shows that 2009 was a record-breaking year in several ways, for implementing the 1997 Landmine Treaty. Nepal was removed from the list of countries which produce mines, leaving 12 on the list. [...]

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Colombian government asks ICRC to condemn Farc over child soldiers

Laila Rodriguez — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:32:36 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Gontard case friction easing with Swiss, Colombian cooperation; $27 billion victim compensation programme high on Colombian gov’t agenda Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – “Our goal is that in 15 years, lands can be given back to the farmers exiled from their homes and that social programmes will be in place to help them,” Vice-president Angelino Garzon [...]

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