| Any additional sponsorship we get will go to Mine Action Group who clear landmines around the world. |
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| There are an estimated 110 million unexploded landmines in war zones in 64 countries around the globe. |
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| Because all the landmines and nasty surprises are going off in the backyards of those people who have chosen a life of unloveliness, we are told. |
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| Scattered around the airstrip are some of Afghanistan's 10 million landmines, which every day leave innocent civilians limbless. |
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| Those that do not explode lie on the ground like landmines, waiting for people to step on them. |
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| It has developed a range of weapons capable of delivering calmative chemicals, including specialized bullets, landmines and a mortar round. |
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| Phil is putting himself through physical torment so that little children don't step on landmines and die. |
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| Most are the result of roadside bombs, landmines and rocket attacks on military camps. |
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| Compared with landmines, unexploded ordnance is not only more visible, but also easier and cheaper to remove. |
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| To reduce or eliminate the use of certain weapons that are indiscriminate in character, such as anti-personnel landmines. |
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| The actress told of her crusade against landmines during a flying visit to Cheshire. |
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| They, too, were followed by waves of aftershocks which hampered rescue work in an area littered with landmines laid during years of war. |
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| The same application could be useful for disposing of unexploded bombs and landmines. |
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| There are those who decry landmines as inhumane, but that is not always the case. |
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| We had all done a lot of training with explosives and landmines and things. |
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| At the grave risk of committing sacrilege, let's tread some dangerous ground infested with landmines. |
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| A team of experts will travel in May to clear landmines in Cambodia, one of the worst landmine contaminated areas in the world. |
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| They have been desperate to avoid setting off an array of landmines with hair triggers. |
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| None of you were massively keen on the idea of remotely triggered landmines. |
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| He said the country would now move to demine the 41 sites identified through the national survey to be affected by landmines. |
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| I'll be staying with villagers who live with landmines literally on their doorsteps. |
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| Thousands of landmines have made patches of the fertile land into no-go zones. |
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| Celebrity campaigning is a logical extension of celebrity charity work, as Princess Diana showed when she took up landmines. |
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| According to Oxfam there are some 50 to 100 victims of landmines and unexploded ordnance every week. |
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| Soon there were troops, Humvees, tanks and armored vehicles squeezed into every space cleared of landmines. |
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| We were worried about enemy patrols and the risk of tripping landmines on the trail or on the site of the old encampment. |
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| Since 1975, landmines have killed over a million people, far outstripping the deaths caused by those well-publicized bugaboos, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. |
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| Second, I understood that the main aim of landmines is not to kill but to maim, and this makes this moral issue so loaded. |
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| Anti-personnel landmines continue to kill or maim indiscriminately long after wars have finished. |
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| I was in a different party at the time we were pursuing and pushing hard for the landmines treaty. |
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| Africa is the continent most afflicted with landmines, which pollute at least 28 of its countries. |
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| Meanwhile, the international community was still talking about legitimizing new types of landmines. |
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| Many failed to detonate on impact, becoming de facto landmines, which have proven to be a deadly threat to unsuspecting civilians. |
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| His country was doing more than at any time in its history to address the problem of landmines. |
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| In fact, landmines are the poison that prevents a country from being able to be financially stable. |
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| Each year thousands of people are killed or maimed by landmines and other explosive remnants of war. |
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| A blanket ban on all types of anti-personnel landmines might therefore be counterproductive. |
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| The move on landmines shows that progress can be made towards a humane society which does not profit from death and destruction. |
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| That tragic incident serves as a reminder of the enduring threat posed by landmines in the buffer zone. |
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| Will Canadian forces be immune from prosecution when they break Canadian law by being involved in operations involving landmines? |
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| I am reminded that China also continues to stockpile enormous quantities of anti-personnel landmines. |
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| Some have seen their houses destroyed or pillaged and are wary of the dangers of the landmines and unexploded ordnance littering the capital. |
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| We are upland farmers, but landmines have been planted around our fields so we dare not cultivate our crops. |
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| Most of the delegates here have never seen a minefield or experienced firsthand the horror caused by landmines. |
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| Mine clearance machines are those machines whose stated purpose is the detonation, destruction or removal of landmines. |
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| In Angola, landmines have created an extra burden, as land remains inaccessible and unproductive. |
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| In the end this is about something like prohibiting chemical weapons, or landmines. |
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| Of grave concern, however, is the presence of unexploded ordnance and landmines, especially in the north. |
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| Fifthly, we agree that it is necessary to put an end to the terrible humanitarian consequences of cluster bombs and anti-personnel landmines. |
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| If thorns, spines, prickles, and trichomes are the spear brigade, idioblasts are the landmines. |
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| We have certainly responded in those areas and are working with governments where landmines are a concern. |
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| I took a shortcut instead of following the main road, but I had no idea there were landmines there. |
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| The rebel groups did use landmines, but, to date, there were no reports of the death or injury of children on that account. |
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| We will be producing a communication on anti-personnel landmines, actually the use of sensor equipment. |
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| It used landmines only for defensive purposes and mainly to demarcate the limits of military installations. |
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| It includes a commitment by Mongolia to accede to the Ottawa Convention on anti-personnel landmines. |
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| As you can easily imagine, this creates a very different reality to that of clearance of anti-personnel landmines. |
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| Once in the ground, cluster bombs have the same effect as landmines, and may lie dormant for years before exploding on contact. |
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| If this debate was about landmines, then who was more suited than survivors to provide evidence of the indiscriminate nature of the weapon? |
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| Many civilians, including children and women, have fallen victim to landmines in conflict and post-conflict situations. |
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| They risk life and limb to remove the thousands of landmines that litter this country, making the land available for use once more. |
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| Another speaker said that landmines were used irresponsibly in some parts of the world and had injured women and children. |
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| Unlike landmines, small arms still arouse a countervailing sense of national interest. |
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| Now the first thing that troops do when they set up camp is defend their position, and they do so by setting up a perimeter by laying landmines. |
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| The use of weapons, including landmines, against the civilian population continues to be a matter of utmost concern. |
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| It also requires that remotely delivered landmines have effective self-destructing and self-deactivating mechanisms. |
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| Every year, thousands of people step on landmines and loose limbs or their lives over it. |
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| It was his initiative, long before it was a topical or faddish thing to do, to support the abolition of landmines. |
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| Some child soldiers must also lay or clear landmines, with all the risks that this activity entails. |
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| Collection of data on child protection improved in several areas, including in relation to landmines and children in conflict situations. |
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| Children who had survived cluster bombs, napalm and nerve gas were today at risk from landmines and unexploded ordinance. |
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| The area is still littered with landmines and unexploded ordnance. |
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| He would be even angrier at those who manufacture and sell the anti-personnel landmines that kill 200 equally innocent, but non-Australian people, every couple of days. |
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| At present, those who had survived cluster bombs, napalm and nerve gas were being killed by landmines and unexploded ordnance. |
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| By studying how the use of land has changed, a trained eye can spot a wealth of clues to the presence or absence of landmines. |
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| Further into the future, a clever robot that is dexterous enough to unearth and carry away landmines may well be developed. |
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| Many will doubtless hear, at barbecues over the July 4th weekend, that voters want landmines in the Yuma desert and crocodiles in the Rio Grande. |
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| We heard warnings and saw signs throughout Cambodia especially, warning not to wander off of the paths due to the threat of undetonated landmines still very much a reality. |
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| Two landmines went off in our faces, drenching us both with warm milk, the pressure too much to be contained in the transparent vessels before us. |
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| Political demands for which Terre des hommes seeks to lobby and raise awareness, in cooperation with other agencies, include the banning of all types of landmines and of the recruitment of minors. |
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| Furthermore, the presence of landmines continues to be a major threat. |
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| I could see the traps and landmines ahead and avoid them, a real artful dodger. |
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| Several factors place greater constraints on the role of civil society in effecting change in the nuclear weapons arena than was the case for cluster munitions and landmines. |
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| I also wish to congratulate the numerous volunteers who organized the second annual potluck dinner at Ashbury College in Rockcliffe Park last Friday night for the benefit of the landmines fund. |
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| With support from UNDP, Jordan has been clearing landmines in Wadi Araba to develop the tourism sector, and to make land accessible to the poorest communities in the Jordan valley. |
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| According to press reports, dozens of civilians have been killed in Kosovo since the end of the air campaign by the accidental detonation of unexploded cluster bomblets and landmines. |
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| This situation creates major humanitarian problems, since landmines and explosive remnants of war kill or mutilate more than ten thousand people per year, mostly civilians. |
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| Today as landmines and unexploded ordnance continue to kill and mutilate one person every 90 minutes, the organisation is pursuing its fight against these cowardly weapons. |
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| Even though the draft treaty did not impose upon states direct obligations to civilians, it did require states to ban and destroy landmines because they were generally recognized as extremely dangerous to civilians. |
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| Another area where concerted action on conventional weapons is well under way is in the global effort to rid the world of the scourge of antipersonnel landmines. |
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| Another issue close to the heart of my delegation is the humanitarian consequences of explosive remnants of war, including cluster munition remnants, and of anti-personnel landmines. |
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| It is also to be noted that the war has caused a mass exodus to towns and cities, due, inter alia, to the dangers posed by landmines in rural areas. |
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| Pakistan blamed India for the delay, caused by the need to unblock roads closed by landslides after the quake, to clear landmines, and to process the papers of those who had applied to cross. |
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| Later, when Chuol asks how many in the crowded classroom have seen real examples of the photograph of the landmines on a poster he holds up, hands shoot up across the classroom. |
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| The children and women in Eritrea remain vulnerable to pervasive undernutrition that limits young children's physical growth and development and to landmines that demarcate an often hidden border between safety and danger. |
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| High failure rates leave many of these bomblets undetonated, in essence turning them into lethal landmines. |
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| For many years I have worked to overcome the problem of anti-personnel landmines, but I have always sought to focus attention on the real culprits, who use such weapons indiscriminately and irresponsibly. |
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| Displacements and continuing incidents of claymore attacks, landmines, unexploded ordnance and aerial bombings have resulted in a climate of fear. |
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| I know it is a politically incorrect subject to address these days, but nonetheless many of their lives were saved because when human wave attacks came they had landmines to defend themselves. |
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| Other methods used to detonate IEDs and landmines, such as armoured machines that flail the ground or sift through it like a potato harvester, are less violent. |
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| It is reported that, since 2003, over 14 million children have been forcibly displaced within and outside their home countries, and between 8,000 and 10,000 children are killed or maimed every year as a result of landmines. |
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| Others have seen the use of cluster bombs whose duds have a landmine-like effect as egregious a problem as landmines and fault the ban movement for not being more proactive on such weapons. |
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| In particular, the Committee stresses the importance of educating children, parents and the public at large about the dangers of landmines and unexploded ordnance in order to prevent injury and death. |
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| Mine actions shall be integrated into all country strategies for those developing countries which suffer from the consequences of antipersonnel landmines. |
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| A draft Regulation on antipersonnel landmines, which is still on the table of the Council, provides for destruction of landmines and specific rehabilitation programmes both for affected individuals and communities. |
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| Each year the DDPS also provides material worth up to a maximum of 2 million Swiss francs, notably the SM-EOD system for destroying landmines and explosive remnants of war. |
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| They are affected by the proliferation of small arms and armed groups, landmines and unexploded ordnances, as well as terrorism and counterterrorism measures. |
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| According to community leaders, approximately 100 children have been killed or injured by landmines and unexploded ordnances in central and southern Somalia in the reporting period. |
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| In addition, frequent bandhs and blockades, enforced through terror and the use of landmines, are creating immeasurable social and economic hardship among the already impoverished population. |
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| Handicap International deals with risk factors by its mine clearance operations, awarenessraising to the danger of landmines and AIDS or filariasis prevention. |
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| The notion that we would be complementing or participating in the making of landmines is something that I am sure the pension board, after hearing this debate today, would rectify in a microsecond. |
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| Concern continues to be expressed about the presence of anti-personnel landmines and other unexploded ordnance in a number of public facilities, such as schools. |
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| However, it is now becoming more accepted that the illegal proliferation and misuse of light weapons pose different and more complex problems than banning anti-personnel landmines. |
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| After the successful realization of a convention banning anti-personnel mines, there is a need to help landmine survivors participate in the ongoing debates related to landmines. |
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| Mine actions shall be integrated into all country and cooperation strategies of such third countries which suffer from the consequences of anti-personnel landmines. |
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| I call on the President to put pressure on the Commission to look into the detail of the possible consequences, which will include the loss of life through uncleared landmines and cluster munitions. |
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| Her Majesty Queen Noor announced Jordan would sign and ratify the Mine Ban Treaty and pledged to continue her work to eradicate landmines as LSNs new Patron. |
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| It entails a total ban on anti-personnel landmines and exhorts states to a concerted approach aimed at providing a solution to the suffering caused by landmines. |
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| Utilize an arsenal of Power-ups like nitro speed boosts, shock attacks, defensive shields, and landmines to beat your rivals across the finish line. |
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| To symbolize the fight against landmines, Handicap International Belgium developed the Blue Laces campaign, symbolizing victims of mines who must learn how to walk and tie their shoelaces again. |
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| My delegation also wishes particularly to stress the impact on children of the illegal traffic in small arms and light weapons, landmines, cluster munitions and unexploded ordinance. |
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| Since 1979 landmines, shells, bombs, and other unexploded ordnance have been left behind. |
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| More than the rebellious phenomenon, she defied the use of landmines, which has been banned by the UN as it causes indiscriminate destruction. |
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| He is one of many children in Yemen affected by landmines and unexploded ordinance. |
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| In post-war Kosovo, unexploded cluster bomblets caused more civilian deaths than landmines. |
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| The weapons disperse submunitions over a wide area and leave explosive bomblets that become de facto landmines. |
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| The results will add an important element to on-going research work on predicting the effects of environmental factors on the process of vapour transportation from landmines to the air at surface level. |
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| The disarmament community has benefited a lot through the engagement with civil society, as evident in the case of landmines, small arms and light weapons and other arms control treaties. |
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| Syrian Arab residents were subject to detention, denied employment opportunities, separated from their families and were exposed to landmines and to the deleterious effects of buried nuclear waste. |
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| The presence of landmines and improvised explosive devices in the community continued to cause harm, but there has been a significant reduction in casualties as compared with the previous two years. |
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| Given our security compulsions and the need to guard our long borders not protected by any natural obstacles, the use of landmines forms an important part of our self-defence strategy. |
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| Returnees face an uncertain future, given that many of the areas of return are heavily contaminated by landmines and offer little in the way of infrastructure or basic social services. |
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| Canadian church communities, responding to God's call to all people to be agents of love and healing in a world that still knows great pain, participated in the movement to ban landmines. |
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| Its 27-year civil war has left a landscape dotted with millions of landmines and a deep suspicion of outsiders among the victorious guerrillas, who tend to speak Portuguese, the former colonial language, rather than English. |
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| The presence of landmines and explosive remnants of war on routes will affect the mobility of the operation's personnel and the provision of humanitarian assistance. |
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| As I am sure members of this Conference are aware, Africa is one of the continents which has suffered greatly as a result of the use of anti-personnel landmines. |
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| They remain committed to ensuring that mine action in Africa reflects the needs and priorities of the governments and people in countries where landmines present an obstacle to development. |
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| During her visit, she called on her own country to ban landmines. |
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| Two men have been killed in recent months when they drove over landmines planted in the Lut Desert hundreds of kilometers from any former war zone. |
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| Casualties caused by landmines and unexploded ordnance stand at 100 people per month and it's unfortunate to say most of the victims happen to be children. |
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| Due to the adaptive possibilities of the pedipulators to obstacles, the robot can adjust the working position of the demining sensors while searching landmines. |
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| The BfR Combat Boot, designed to be used as standard military issue, features a patented technology, which helps protect the wearer against anti-personnel landmines. |
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| Many bomblets often do not explode, becoming de facto landmines. |
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| Through deployment of its operations teams, APACOMINAS will alleviate the impacts of landmines and UXO in the affected communities of Kwanza Sul province. |
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| The meeting aimed to discuss the incidents in Djebel Chmbi, Kasserine city, where three landmines went off yesterday and earlier today, wounding a number of security men. |
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