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Mercy Across Borders, Maureen Morton
Mercy Across Borders, Maureen Morton
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
What is it worth when a life is on the line and every moment counts? Will initial first aid arrive? Is emergency surgery available? Are painkillers and antibiotics guaranteed? The landmine victim now waits for help that varies in quality according to international funding and whatever remains of post-conflict medical and community infrastructure. Prosthetics, physio, occupational , psychological therapies and home care are serious issues; conspicuous by their absence. Independent life skills need to be learned, and occupational training depends on the availability of work and on the type, degree and combination of disabilities.
Icbl Working Group On Victim Assistance, Jerry White
Icbl Working Group On Victim Assistance, Jerry White
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Landmine Survivors Network (LSN) currently chairs the ICBL Working Group on Victim Assistance. It is in this capacity, working together with over 20 humanitarian and development non-governmental organizations (NGOs), my ICBL colleagues and I welcome this opportunity to discuss Article 6 which covers States Parties responsibility to provide "care and rehabilitation, and social and economic reintegration of mine victims."
Afghanistan An Eye Witness Account, Stefan Smith
Afghanistan An Eye Witness Account, Stefan Smith
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
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Boch Non The Village Of Many Widows, Paul Giannone
Boch Non The Village Of Many Widows, Paul Giannone
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Battambang Province has rich soil, precious gems and forests. The area once produced enough food to feed the entire country. Now the major harvest is landmines and unexploded munitions. But the province, now at peace, does provide opportunity. Villages are springing up wherever road improvements are made. People are homesteading regardless of the risk of landmines and buried bombs or the fact that there is no infrastructure to support them. Those that can't cope, and many can't, end up back in refugee camps or destitute in the larger cities.
Vietnam Veterans Of America Foundation, Cisr Journal
Vietnam Veterans Of America Foundation, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
"Most international humanitarian aid organizations pride themselves on remaining above the fray; non-partisan, objective and silent on issues affecting the people for whom they provide vital assistance. We don't," said Bobby Muller, president of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF).
What You Should Know About Landmine Victims, Margaret S. Busé
What You Should Know About Landmine Victims, Margaret S. Busé
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
One million people have been killed and maimed by anti-personnel mines. Twenty-six thousand people a year become victims, 70 people a day, or around one person every 15 minutes. Three hundred thousand children and counting are severely disabled because of landmines. Half the people who step on an anti-personnel mine die from their injuries before they are found or taken to hospital. An even higher percentage of children die because, being smaller, their vital organs are closer to the blast. After the end of hostilities, decades afterwards, anyone who strays into a mine field is at risk. Everyone is vulnerable: …
Patrick J. Leahy War Victims Fund, Cisr Journal
Patrick J. Leahy War Victims Fund, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
In 1989, Sen. Patrick Leahy started a fund to get medical aid to victims of landmines. There are an estimated 100 million unexploded land mines in over 60 countries, where they kill or maim an estimated 26,000 people each year. Vast areas of countries like Cambodia, Bosnia and Angola have become death traps.
Queen Noor Of Jordan A Commitment To Landmine Victims, Margaret S. Busé
Queen Noor Of Jordan A Commitment To Landmine Victims, Margaret S. Busé
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Her Majesty Queen Noor visited Vietnam and Cambodia in October 1999 to see firsthand the plight of the land mine problem in these countries. As the patron of the Landmine Survivors Network (LSN), she also does fundraising activities for the organization. She recently was in the United States working in this capacity in September 1999.
Sustainability Of Prosthetic And Orthotic Programs, Mike Boddington
Sustainability Of Prosthetic And Orthotic Programs, Mike Boddington
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
This paper examines the overall incidence of disability, and specifically of motor-disability, in low-income countries of the world. It observes the attitude of society roward those suffering from disabilities, and argues that there is a need for long term support for services to the motor-disabled by the international community. In order ro generate this support, low-income countries must develop highly efficient services that minimize the call on international resources. Such services are likely to be outside government. They will be within private nonprofit organizations: ring fenced, transparent, and capable of regular audit.
Teaching Them To Fish, Ernest Burgess
Teaching Them To Fish, Ernest Burgess
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Vietnam, 1969. Uganda, 1978. Lebanon, 1986. Iraq, 1991. Rwanda, 1994. Kosovo, 1999. The world at war has greatly changed in the years that span these conflicts. Leaders and regimes rise and pass away from memory. Political objectives can and will shift. Weapons of destruction become ever more efficient. There is a constancy that can always be relied upon: the anguish, the loss of life and limb, and the starvation are the enduring legacy of warfare.
A Promise To Our Children, Charles E. Maccormack
A Promise To Our Children, Charles E. Maccormack
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
On May 22, 1999, President Clinton announced a decision on anti-personnel landmines that commits the United States to sign the Ottawa Treaty by the year 2006. With this initiative, Clinton cleared the way for the United States to join the more than 120 nations that already have signed the treaty, which is an international agreement that bans the stockpiling, use, and import and export of anti-personnel landmines. This is welcome news for the children, families and communities whose daily lives are affected by the scourge of landmines.
The Impact Of Landmines Yesterday And Today, A. G. Marangione
The Impact Of Landmines Yesterday And Today, A. G. Marangione
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
On April 20, 1945, at about 5 a.m., still dark, I and two of my companions from Troop A 16th Cavalry, were on a reconnaissance patrol on the outskirts of Dusseldorf, Germany. I was in the passenger seat of a jeep. I had a driver and one man in the rear manning a .30-caliber machine gun. His name was Clarence Brown, but because he was a huge fellow we affectionately called him "Bear." We had been together since our Cavalry-Squadron was formed in 1942 in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. On April 20 we were part of a very proud and successful …
Angola, An Eyewitness Report Of The Landmine Crisis, Helen Long
Angola, An Eyewitness Report Of The Landmine Crisis, Helen Long
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Leaving the humidity and incessant noise of the Angolan capital, Luanda, whose streets are cluttered with cars and bands of children who subsist on a diet of refuse and insults, the elderly Hercules, a plane loaded with American corn, climbed unsteadily into the gray monsoon sky. It was the second flight the Hercules had made that morning to Malange, the northwestern provincial capital, and another ten planes laden with food were scheduled to follow that day. Malange is just one of more than 20 destinations that food and relief supplies are flown to everyday to keep alive the 2 million …
Care, Cisr Journal
Care, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere) is one of the world's largest private international relief and development organizations. CARE USA has operations in 50 countries around the world.
Landmine Survivors Network, Cisr Journal
Landmine Survivors Network, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Landmine Survivors Network (LSN) works to help mine victims and their families recover through an integrated program of peer counseling, sports, and social and economic re-integration into their communities. In countries in the developing world where landmines are prevalent, survivors lose more than a leg or arm; they often lose their place as a valued and respected member of their society. LSN works with survivors and their families to support their efforts to retake their place and become productive members of their communities. for example, landmine survivors play a crucial role in landmine education, particularly for children within communities at …
Save The Children, Cisr Journal
Save The Children, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Save the Children's unique self-help approach to relief, recovery, and ongoing development has nurtured the seeds of hope for millions of people. Save the Children of the United States is a nonprofit, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization working in more than 35 nations around the globe. More than 60 years of experience working hand-in-hand, shoulder-to-shoulder with families and communities at home and abroad has taught us that poverty need not be a life sentence.
War Child, Cisr Journal
War Child, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Heavily mined areas take the highest toll on the poor civilian populations that surround post-conflict areas.
Mine Action's Cracked Pillar, Joe Lokey
Mine Action's Cracked Pillar, Joe Lokey
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Just about anyone doing anything regarding land mines knows the four pillars of mine action. We routinely acknowledge that mine awareness, mine clearance, victim assistance and advocacy must all proceed simultaneously if the world is to be aware of the threat of mines, have safe roads, fields and schoolyards, support the rehabilitation and reintegration of victims and survivors, and convince all governments to move quickly toward a mine-free world.
Gathering In Geneva, Dennis Barlow
Gathering In Geneva, Dennis Barlow
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
From September 15- 17, 1999, victim assistance experts met in Geneva to provide input to the Standing Committee of Experts on Victim Assistance (VA), Socioeconomic Reintegration and Mine Awareness; one of several committees called into being as a result of meetings in Maputo dealing with mine action aspects of the Ottawa Treaty. T he foll owing observations are made in the context of that meeting, which was hosted by the Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Demining.
Handicap International, Sylvie Brigot
Handicap International, Sylvie Brigot
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
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Prosthetics & Orthotics A Personal View From Cambodia, Carson Harte
Prosthetics & Orthotics A Personal View From Cambodia, Carson Harte
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Landmine victims have been the focus of attention since the formation of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), and this naturally peaked in 1997 with the signing of the Ottawa agreement. This event, while incredible, needs to be looked at as part of an ongoing process in the rehabilitation of people with mobility impairment living in low income. These are often considered as only landmine victims, but the context is wider. While the continuing work of ratification, awareness raising, advocacy planning etc. goes on, it is useful to look at the context of the ongoing work in rehab, the …
Effect Of Conventional Weapons On Civilian Injuries, Robin M. Coupland, Hans O. Samnegaard
Effect Of Conventional Weapons On Civilian Injuries, Robin M. Coupland, Hans O. Samnegaard
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
The use of weapons against people or targets containing people inevitably has a direct impact on the health of those people. This impact is related to factors dependent on the design of weapons and on their use. The nature of injury is closely related to the design of the weapon; wounds from bullets, fragments, and buried anti-personnel mines are distinguishable. Factors dependent on the user, such as discipline and desire to avoid or injure civilians, determine the number and kind of people injured and may, in the case of bullets, determine which part of the body is injured. This century …
Animal Casualties Of The Underground War, Adam M. Roberts, Kevin Stewart
Animal Casualties Of The Underground War, Adam M. Roberts, Kevin Stewart
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
It has become increasingly evident that animal activists need to join the fight to ban forever the use of violent, indiscriminate landmines that destroy the lives of both humans and non-humans with their devastating force.
Doctors Without Borders, Cisr Journal
Doctors Without Borders, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
When a natural or a man-made disaster strikes a developing country, death and disease is often compounded by a lack of adequate medical care. In many war-torn countries, animosity is so great between warring factions that medical care is often denied to those in need because of their religion, ethnic identity, or political affiliations. In such cases, who will help the helpless? In 1971, a group of concerned physicians established Doctors Without Borders/ Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), to provide emergency assistance wherever wars and man-made disasters occur. Since then, MSF has grown into the world's largest independent international medical relief …
International Committee Of The Red Cross, Cisr Journal
International Committee Of The Red Cross, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance. It directs and coordinates the international relief activities in situations of conflict. It also endeavors to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles. Established in 1863 on the principles of Henry Dunant and the meeting of the Geneva Conventions, the ICRC has also originated the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, and plays a significant …
Norwegian People's Aid, Cisr Journal
Norwegian People's Aid, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Founded in 1939, Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) is one of Norway's largest nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Although NPA is currently involved in more than 300 projects in thirty countries, the organization still adheres to the basic principles set forth by its labor movement founders; solidarity, unity, human dignity, peace, and freedom. The range of NPA's projects is diverse, from extensive outreach programs for the people of Palestine, to short term emergency relief programs and long term development cooperation in over twelve countries in Africa, and more. One of NPA's most notable efforts is its humanitarian demining activities, centered in Asia and …
Prosthetics Outreach Foundation, Cisr Journal
Prosthetics Outreach Foundation, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Prosthetics Outreach Foundation (POF) is a non profit medical service organization that provides urgently needed high quality prostheses (artificial limbs) to amputees in developing countries and in the United States. Since 1988, the staff and volunteers have fitted over 10,000 children and adults with new prostheses, enabling each amputee to walk again with dignity. POF helps communities to meet the needs of their own amputees by establishing clinics to create and fit artificial limbs and workshops to manufacture prosthetic components with local materials.
Journal Of Mine Action, Issue 3.3 (1999), Cisr Journal
Journal Of Mine Action, Issue 3.3 (1999), Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Victim & Survivor Assistance | Notes from the Field | Organization Profiles
Vietnam Assistance For The Handicapped, Cisr Journal
Vietnam Assistance For The Handicapped, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Vietnam Assistance for the Handicapped (VNAH) is dedicated to assisting the disabled in Vietnam on an equal access basis without regard to social or political status. They operate exclusively for humanitarian, charitable purposes. Through their support for rehabilitation clinics in Vietnam, they are enabling the disabled to get on their feet, regain their dignity and walk toward a new, productive life.
Defining The Pillar Of Victim Assistance, Sue Eitel
Defining The Pillar Of Victim Assistance, Sue Eitel
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Mine victim assistance has become one of the main agendas on the international political platform. The United Nations' definition of mine victim assistance includes the identification and clearance of mines, mine risk education and victim assistance. The increase in attention to mine victim assistance is a result of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, as well as efforts from the late Diana, Princess of Wales.