By Windy Borman, TakePart What do United States students holding painted prostheses, a flash mob in Germany, an 11K race in Colombia, a concert i...
On April 4, 2013, the world will mark the 8th annual United Nations International Day of Mine Awareness, a global observance designed to grow the movement to ban anti-personnel landmines, promote disarmament and clearance, and provide victim services.
Every year, between 4,000 to 5,000 people are killed or maimed by landmines. Approximately, 72 percent of the casualties are civilians, and 30 to 40 p...
Not long ago, there were people who feared the camera, believing it to be 'a tool of the devil.' They feared this 'evil instrument' that captures and ...
In respect to gun ownership, we fall off the chart in every standard-setting category for a modern society. Our civilians pay the price as our laws empower the criminals. How long must we bury our heads in the sand and deny ourselves the decency of a 21st-century civil society?
We are painfully aware of one cruel, ironic fact of the Sahel food crisis: many acres of fertile fields are littered with landmines and explosive remnants of war, rendering them too dangerous for seeding.
The United States should act on its recent condemnation of Syria's use of antipersonnel landmines by joining the international ban on these weapons.
Tulasi Pariyar was 8-years-old when she ran into a minefield to rescue a goat. Tulasi lost a leg in the accident and her family had to use all of thei...
Meet Marian Bechtel. She's a 17-year-old pianist, scientist, 2012 Intel Talent Search finalist, and passionate anti-war activist. Oh, and a normal hig...
(Tripoli) – Libya’s first steps to destroy its vast stockpile of landmines are a positive development, and the demolitions should continue...
Multiple accounts by witnesses appear to confirm that the Syrian army has planted landmines near its border with Turkey in 2012.
The January 2012 issue of National Geographic features a fascinating article on Cambodia's continuing struggle to clear the millions of landmines plac...
Past conflicts between Ecuador and Peru have left the landscape dotted with mines, and their removal is risky business. This important job is done by ...
It takes a true visionary to see a Buddhist monk deploying a pack of giant rats as the solution to the devastating danger posed by landmines.
SALT LAKE CITY -- Multiple flights were delayed after four inert land mines were found in luggage at Salt Lake City International Airport. Transporta...
Approximately 75 percent of the technicians who work at the clinic are landmine victims and amputees themselves, giving them a special understanding of how to make prosthetic limbs that are comfortable in practice, not just in theory.
In Southeast Asia, UXOs left over from the Vietnam War injure and kill hundreds of people each year.
Helen Gray remembers a field of 30,000 mines that ran straight through a village in Mozambique in south east Africa. Some of the homes were on one sid...
MOSCOW — A farmer in Russia's Far East has been handed a suspended prison sentence for planting explosives in his field to ward off potato thiev...
As long as Lebanon refuses to embrace the Ottawa Treaty and categorically outlaw landmine use, many of its citizens will continue to suffer abuses of a fundamental prerogative - the right to safety and security.
The United States is the third largest stockpiler of land mines in the world, behind China and Russia. Like those two countries, we have refused to sign an agreement banning the manufacture, stockpiling and use of land mines.
When Geronimo Basilio borrowed $100 from Santa Rosa Unida, the local NGO with a micro-credit loan fund in his northern Nicaraguan village, he did so a...
My family invested nearly $15,000 last year in Barack Obama, Inc. stock. We bought in heavily out of accumulated capital and it was a significant amount for us...
The country's landscape is littered with leftover, unexploded ordnance -- still deadly after 34 years. Those farmers who dare till the land often step on landmines in their own fields.
An elephant in Thailand is walking again after receiving a new prosthetic leg. Motala lost her leg after a landmine explosion ten years ago. Motala...
