The international treaty to ban landmines, signed in Ottawa on Dec. 3, 1997, is slowly eradicating the production and use of the crippling weapons, according to a study released Wednesday.
Landmine Monitor, an annual report by the Nobel-prize winning International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), says that fewer people were killed and injured by landmines in 2013 than in any previously monitored year.
But Canada, which spearheaded the treaty negotiation against aggressive opposition from the United States and other major landmine producers, is criticized in the latest ICBL report for falling behind in its funding for landmine clearing, support for victims and …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
