Landmine Survivors Network

Landmine Survivors Network

Assisting landmine victims

Annual landmine casualty rates

Annex V Annual landmine casualty rates

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That's what I got stuck doing the landmine campaign.

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Thus Russia has shown its readiness to solve the landmine problem.

Livestock are understood regularly to be maimed or killed in landmine incidents.

Table 2. Recommended awards for claims for personal injuries resulting from landmine explosions

There was also an ongoing need to meet the needs of landmine survivors.

Physical rehabilitation is a crucial means to landmine victims' ultimate aim full reintegration.

Welcoming the efforts of the Community to make southern Africa a landmine free zone,

Clearing mined areas Assisting landmine victims Other matters essential for achieving the Convention's aims

We call upon the international community to provide the necessary assistance to landmine clearance operations, as well as to the rehabilitation of the victims and their social and economic integration into the landmine affected countries.

Noting the continued efforts of the Community to make Southern Africa a landmine free zone,

See for example, the World Rehabilitation Fund's Guidelines for Socio Economic Integration of Landmine Survivors.

The hallmark of the landmine process was the way it combined field experience and political action.

Physical rehabilitation and prosthetic services are preconditions to the full recovery and reintegration of landmine survivors.

We also urge that assistance be provided for landmine clearance operations and to rehabilitate the victims.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan had held a landmine seminar in Tokyo in March 2004.

While not forgetting the responsibilities to landmine victims wherever they may be, a greater emphasis must be placed on the fulfilment of the responsibilities to landmine victims by the above mentioned States Parties and on providing assistance where necessary to these States.

Peer support is a fundamental strategy in the rehabilitation of landmine survivors in Afghanistan, Bosnia, El Salvador and Vietnam.

The UNMEE Mine Action Coordination Centre continued to monitor closely the landmine and unexploded ordnance threat in all sectors.

India has set up a number of camps for the fitting of artificial limbs to landmine victims in Afghanistan.

According to Landmine Monitor 2006, Colombia had 1,110 victims last year, followed by Cambodia with 875 and Afghanistan with 848.

However, the problems faced by landmine victims are similar to the challenges faced by other persons with injuries and disabilities.

Addressing this challenge will not be easy for the States Parties in which there are large numbers of landmine victims.

Another landmine, close to one of the towers and also to the local school, killed a 17 year old Awá boy .

The Summit featured the largest ever gathering of representatives of non governmental organizations with an interest in the global landmine problem.

In that context, Jordan stresses the need for the international community to mobilize resources and provide necessary assistance for landmine clearance operations as well as for the rehabilitation of landmine victims, including their social and economic reintegration, so that Member States can live up to their obligations under the Convention.

We believe that the protocol offers the best possible solution to the landmine problem and is realistic from the viewpoint of effective implementation.

The establishment of the Convention was the impetus for the development of the Global Survey Initiative to better understand the global landmine problem.

Providing for the care, rehabilitation and reintegration of landmine victims often requires that attention be given during the entire lifetime of these individuals.

In the first case, the claimant seeks compensation for the MPA he allegedly suffered resulting from his personal injuries following a landmine explosion.

Most included a measure of disarmament, demobilization or reintegration, while landmine clearance remained essential for the revival of the economy in war torn countries.

Assistance to landmine victims should be viewed as a part of a country's overall public health and social services systems and human rights frameworks.

In the second case, the claimant seeks compensation for the MPA he allegedly suffered resulting from his personal injuries, also following a landmine explosion.

It was also ready to cooperate with other countries and international and non governmental organizations to assist mine affected countries to eliminate landmine problems.

They include one category D claim filed by Kuwait on behalf of an individual who was recently killed as a result of a landmine explosion.

Problems faced by States Parties in which there are significant number of landmine victims, and their plans to address these problems, progress and priorities for assistance

Kuwait subsequently filed two further category D claims pursuant to decision 12 on behalf of two individual claimants who suffered personal injuries resulting from landmine explosions.

Kuwait subsequently filed two further category D claims pursuant to decision 12 on behalf of two individual claimants who suffered personal injuries resulting from landmine explosions.

The Mission also acknowledges a 1.7 million donation of equipment from the Government of Japan, including vehicles, tents and landmine detection devices, delivered in Mombassa in October.