GENEVA (AN) — At least 5,554 people — mostly civilians, including many children — were killed or wounded last year because they stepped on a land mine or other unexploded devices left behind in war, advocacy groups reported on Thursday.
The 2019 figures amount to a 40% increase from the 3,956 victims reported a decade earlier, which were at that time the lowest number for any year since the first Landmine Monitor report in 1999. The report is produced by Geneva-based International Campaign to Ban Landmines, or ICBL, a global network of nongovernmental organizations in 100 nations.
Human Rights — Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) — Colombia — Global Issues — Handicap International (HI) — Human Rights Watch (HRW) — International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) — Iraq — Mali — Mine Ban Treaty 1999 — Myanmar — Nigeria — North Korea — South Korea — Switzerland — Syria — U.N. Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) — Ukraine — Americas — Yemen — Asia-Pacific
