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International Mine Awareness Day: US Advocacy Groups Call on White House to...
In marking International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, advocacy groups called on the US to lend its support to the global ban on antipersonnel landmines. Human Rights Watch...
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Why I Have Joined the International Committee on Robot Arms Control
“Military robots and remote-controlled weapons pose a range of concerns but a line should be drawn at fully autonomous weapons,” says Article 36, one of several advocacy organizations calling for...
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Is Canada ‘Dropping the Ball’ on Landmines and Cluster Munitions?
Canada played such an important role in championing the cause of banning and clearing landmines in the 1990s that the Antipersonnel Landmine Ban Treaty is called the Ottawa Convention. It was also in...
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Sign Petition Calling on Obama to Join the Mine Ban Treaty!
In 2009, the Obama Administration announced that they were conducting a policy review of US policy on landmines, which had backslid during the Bush Administration from an already rather moribund...
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“You Can’t Court Martial R2D2″: Political Minefields Featured in New...
Autonomous Robots: Banning Killing Machines, a new documentary by Amy Kohn and her colleagues over at theDroneMediaProject, considers the case for banning “Killer Robots“, military robots that can...
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US Close to Announcing Result of Landmine Policy Review
Despite campaigning in 2008 on the promise that he would “lead the way” on “international initiatives to limit harm to civilians caused by conventional weapons”, President Barack Obama maintained the...
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US Landmine Policy Review: Supposedly Ending “Soon”, Still Stalled for Now
It’s been 4 years & we’re still waiting for an announcement of the #US #landmine policy review. #banminesusa pic.twitter.com/yH1PylzC0n — USCBL (@banminesusa) November 1, 2013 When he was...
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Bosnian Flood Landmine Danger Reveals Need for Reinvigorated Demining Effort
Matthew Bolton:To answer all the queries I’ve been getting about the tragic situation in Bosnia with the massive flooding, I wrote this piece for the blog of the International Campaign to Ban...
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Obama’s New Landmine Policy: Change I Can Believe In, Tentatively
Without much fanfare last week, representatives of the State Department announced subtle but crucial changes to the US government’s stance on landmines, distancing itself from the unilateral tone of...
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Progress on Landmines in 2014
The new Landmine Monitor* report has recorded “the lowest number of new casualties ever and the completion of clearance obligations in four states.” In other good news, Oman acceded to the treaty in...
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