Tell the Obama Administration to Join the Mine Ban Treaty!

To a landmine, there is no difference between an enemy soldier and a  young child playing soccer. To date, hundreds of thousands of civilians have been killed or maimed by landmines. Thousands of people are injured or killed by land mines each year despite a reduction in casualties following the adoption of the Mine Ban Treaty. Landmines kill indiscriminately, and their use must be stopped. 

Landmines remain in the ground throughout areas of conflict -- in Southeast Asia and Africa -- where they pose an invisible and deadly threat. The majority of new landmine victims are civilians, and many are children.

While the United States donates to programs aimed at clearing landmines and assisting victims, it is not party to the Mine Ban Treaty, adopted in 1997 and joined by 162 nations. Those who join the treaty have vowed to stop producing, transferring, stockpiling, and using antipersonnel landmines, along with clearing mined areas and helping mine victims. The US government in 2014 indicated it intended eventually to sign the treaty and committed not to use these weapons anywhere in the world except the Korean Peninsula, where US military forces are deployed. 

The price of continued inaction is too high. 

Tell the Obama Administration to overcome the obstacle of continued use of landmines in Korea and to join the Mine Ban Treaty. Too many civilians have been injured and killed by landmines, and it's time for the US to be part of the solution—not the problem.

Image caption: Naseema Akhtar lost her left leg in a landmine explosion in 1995 while crossing a field between India and Pakistan
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