Organizations, Programs and Campaigns

Adopt-A-Minefield
Adopt-A-Minefield®, a program of the United Nations Association of the USA saves lives by raising funds for mine clearance and survivor assistance and by raising awareness about the landmine problem. The Campaign seeks national and international sponsors to adopt minefields that the United Nations has identified as being in urgent need of clearance.

Handicap International

Human Rights Watch: The Campaign to Ban Landmines
Human Rights Watch is a co-founder of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and a member of its Coordinating Committee.

IICRC - International Committe of the Red Cross - Landmines
Throughout the 1990's, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, international organizations and NGO's worked relentlessly to achieve a prohibition on anti-personnel mines, and to bring relief to mine victims and mine affected communities.

International Campaign to Ban Landmines
Winner of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, the work of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines has brought about tremendous change in a short period of time. In Ottawa, in December 1997, 122 countries signed a treaty that bans the use, production, stockpiling, and transfer of antipersonnel mines. To date over 143 countries have signed and 125 countries have ratified the Mine Ban Treaty.

IPPNW - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War - Campaign to Ban Landmines
With a special focus on Africa and on Russia and the Former Soviet Union, IPPNW has organized major conferences on the medical and social consequences of landmines and workshops on the long term care and rehabilitation of landmine victims.

Landmine Action (UK)
Landmine Action is working to eliminate landmines and to find solutions to the problems caused by cluster bombs and other UXO. We work to help individuals and communities affected by these explosive remnants of war. Our members are active throughout the world, clearing mines/UXO, assisting landmine victims, and education people about the dangers of landmines. Landmine Action is involved in international research and policy development.

Landmine Survivors Network
Landmine Survivors Network works to help mine victims and their families recover through an integrated program of peer counseling, sports, and social and economic integration into their communities.

MAG: Mines Advisory Group
MAG i assists people affected by landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO - bombs, mortars, grenades). MAG clears and destroys the landmines and left-over weapons that make areas unsafe after war.

Mines Action Canada
Coalition of Canadian NGOs; affiliated with the ICBL.

The People's Treaty
Sign the People's Treaty to ensure that governments keep their promises in ratifying and implementing the Ottawa Treaty.
International Campaign to Ban Landmines

United States Campaign to Ban Landmines
A coalition of more than 500 U.S.-based organizations dedicated to a total ban on antipersonnel landmines. It is one of 90 country campaigns that form the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL).

OneWorld Guides: Landmines
OneWorld

SafeLane: Canada's Guide to the Global Ban on Landmines
Government of Canada: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Landmine links and webdirectory
Open Directory Project

Landmine Websites
International Campaign to Ban Lindmines