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Featured Resources International Campaign to Ban Landmines: ToolKit Featured OrganizationsAdopt-A-Minefield is a campaign of the United Nations Association of the USA, which engages individuals, community groups, and businesses in the United Nations effort to resolve the global landmine crisis. The Campaign helps save lives by raising funds for mine clearance and survivor assistance and by raising awareness about the landmine problem. U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines seeks to convince the US government to join the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, which prohibits the use, trade, production, and stockpiling of antipersonnel landmines, and which requires its adherents to provide funding for landmine victim assistance and demining. Did You Know?Landmines set in motion a series of events that leads to environmental damage in the forms of soil degradation, deforestation, pollution of water resources with heavy metals and altering entire species' populations through degrading habitats and altering food chains.Landmines affect every aspect of human life including the ability for refugees to return to their homes. A report from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees published in 1997 stated that 13.2 million refugees, 4.9 million internally displaced people and 3.3 million returnees were at risk from landmines. The number of active mines in the world is decreasing. As of February 2004, a total of 68 signators of the Mine Ban Treaty have destroyed nearly 30.5 million antipersonnel landmines. Fifty-five of these countries have completed stockpile destruction while 13 are in the process of destruction. -Adopt-A-Minefield Factsheet |
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"When I was filming Tomb Raider in Cambodia I was faced with the harsh reality of the landmine crisis. I adopted a minefield in Battambang province through Adopt-A-Minefield. It has now been cleared and the people there can once again live in safety." - Angelina Jolie, (has an adopted son named Maddox, who was born in Cambodia)photo source
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