CAMPAIGN TO BAN LANDMINES

Let President Bush know you support a ban on landmines!

The Bush administration has abandoned all plans for the U.S. to join the life-saving Mine Ban Treaty. Click here to read LWR's reaction to this decision. Let your voice be heard on this important issue! Contact the White House at 202-456-1111, by fax at 202-456-2461 or by email at president@whitehouse.gov.

According to a major poll on Americans’ views on foreign policy released in late September 2004 by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, 80% of the American public believes that the U.S. government should support the international treaty banning landmines. For the full poll results, visit www.ccfr.org (landmine question on page 38 of the report).

For the latest ways to take action with the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines, please visit their website at www.banminesusa.org.

Colombian Government Destroys Landmines

On October 24, 2004, the government of Colombia came one step closer to fulfilling its commitment to eliminate more than 20,000 stockpiled landmines by February 2005. The Colombian armed forces destroyed 6,800 landmines while victims' groups, national and international leaders watched the explosion from a ceremony in another location.

Colombia has the fourth-largest number of annual casualties due to landmines, after Chechnya, Afghanistan and Cambodia. The International Campaign to Ban Landmines reports that the number of casualties from landmines in Colombia more than doubled from 216 in 2001 to 530 in 2002.

Learn more about the conflict in Colombia.

Flash video and online petition from the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines!

The U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines has developed a new one-minute flash video presentation about the global landmine crisis. To visit the USCBL website and view the video, click here.

Let the presidential candidates know you support a ban on landmines! At the end of the flash video presentation, you can link to an online petition urging President Bush and Senator Kerry to come out in favor of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty.

Earlier this year, the U.S. administration abandoned all plans to join the life-saving Mine Ban Treaty. Click here to read LWR's reaction to this decision. Let your voice be heard on this important issue!

According to a major poll on Americans’ views on foreign policy released in late September, 2004 by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, 80% of the American public believes that the U.S. government should support the international treaty banning landmines. For the full poll results, visit www.ccfr.org (landmine question on page 38 of the report).