LANDMINEFREE2025
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  • About Us
  • The Problem
  • Support the campaign
  • Reports
    • State of Play: The Landmine Free 2025 Commitment
    • The Ottawa Treaty's 2025 Goal for Clearance
    • Removing Barriers to Growth - How Landmines Affect African Development
    • Mine Action's Fair Share: An Agenda for Change
    • Landmine Free does not mean victim free
  • Prince Harry
    • Prince Harry - International Mine Awareness Day 2017
    • Prince Harry Calls on States to Keep their Promise for a Landmine Free 2025
  • Stories
    • International Women's Day
    • Landmines, Improvised Explosive Devices and Displacement
    • HUMANITARIAN MINE ACTION and the EMPOWERMENT of WOMEN
    • LANDMINE CLEARANCE: REMOVING LETHAL BARRIERS TO DEVELOPMENT
    • CLEARING LANDMINES AND BUILDING FUTURES IN ANGOLA
    • STICKS, SAFETY AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY IN ZIMBABWE
  • EVENTS & NEWS
    • 2021 Mine Ban Treaty intersessional meetings
    • EVENT: Can achieving a Landmine Free 2025 help the world to re-build after COVID-19?
    • Mine Awareness Day 2020
    • Landmine Free 2025 opening statement at the Mine Ban Treaty review conference
    • Prince Harry calls for a Landmine Free 2025 as casualties double
    • State of Play: The Landmine Free 2025 Commitment
    • Prince Harry Marks International Mine Awareness Day at Kensington Palace
  • CONTACT US

THE PROBLEM

Landmines are not a problem confined to the past.
Women, girls, boys, and men living in countries from Angola to Cambodia, do so in daily fear from these savage remnants of conflicts that are often long since over.

Landmines don’t obey peace accords or ceasefire agreements. They can lie in the ground for decades after the fighting has stopped, killing or maiming those trying to re-establish their lives and livelihoods.

Landmines prevent people from travelling freely and safely, to school, to the market, to health centres and water sources. They stop impoverished communities from being able to use their land to grow crops and earn a living. They deny people displaced by war the chance to return home safely.
 
When conflict is over, all most people want is to return to normality. Instead they find they cannot do so because their land is not safe: paths, roads, fields, villages, schools and other local amenities have been mined. If they return, at best they live in fear of injury or death, and may lose crucial livestock in a landmine explosion. At worst they step on a landmine and have one or more limbs blown off, or die.
 
Despite dedicated work that has led to 33 countries and territories now being declared free from the threat, landmines are not being cleared fast enough for the people who still live in constant terror from them. With the right will and support this problem can be dealt with. Help us to create landmine free 2025.
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  • Home
  • About Us
  • The Problem
  • Support the campaign
  • Reports
    • State of Play: The Landmine Free 2025 Commitment
    • The Ottawa Treaty's 2025 Goal for Clearance
    • Removing Barriers to Growth - How Landmines Affect African Development
    • Mine Action's Fair Share: An Agenda for Change
    • Landmine Free does not mean victim free
  • Prince Harry
    • Prince Harry - International Mine Awareness Day 2017
    • Prince Harry Calls on States to Keep their Promise for a Landmine Free 2025
  • Stories
    • International Women's Day
    • Landmines, Improvised Explosive Devices and Displacement
    • HUMANITARIAN MINE ACTION and the EMPOWERMENT of WOMEN
    • LANDMINE CLEARANCE: REMOVING LETHAL BARRIERS TO DEVELOPMENT
    • CLEARING LANDMINES AND BUILDING FUTURES IN ANGOLA
    • STICKS, SAFETY AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY IN ZIMBABWE
  • EVENTS & NEWS
    • 2021 Mine Ban Treaty intersessional meetings
    • EVENT: Can achieving a Landmine Free 2025 help the world to re-build after COVID-19?
    • Mine Awareness Day 2020
    • Landmine Free 2025 opening statement at the Mine Ban Treaty review conference
    • Prince Harry calls for a Landmine Free 2025 as casualties double
    • State of Play: The Landmine Free 2025 Commitment
    • Prince Harry Marks International Mine Awareness Day at Kensington Palace
  • CONTACT US