• US: Follow Up Rebuke to Syria on Landmines
    Press release
    Apr 4, 2012

    The United States should act on its recent condemnation of Syria’s use of antipersonnel landmines by joining the international ban on these weapons.

  • Libya’s Government Destroys Landmines
    Impact
    Mar 29, 2012

    Last week in Libya, Human Rights Watch witnessed the destruction of nearly 100 Chinese-made antivehicle landmines – weapons that kill or maim civilians, often children, long after the fighting has stopped.

  • Libya: Good Start on Landmine Destruction
    Press release
    Mar 25, 2012

    Libya’s first steps to destroy its vast stockpile of landmines are a positive development, and the demolitions should continue. 

  • Syria: Army Planting Banned Landmines
    Press release
    Mar 13, 2012

    Syrian forces have placed landmines near the borders with Lebanon and Turkey in recent weeks and months, based on reports and confirmations from witnesses and Syrian deminers. Civilian casualties have already resulted, the witnesses said.

  • Finland Joins Landmine Ban Treaty
    Press release
    Jan 11, 2012

    Finland’s action to join the international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines should spur the United States and others to get on board without delay. 

  • Landmine Treaty: Progress in Phnom Penh
    Press release
    Dec 2, 2011
    The international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines is making strong progress toward its objective of a mine-free world, as a major meeting on landmines wrapped up in Phnom Penh. However, the United States’ review of its policy has regrettably entered its third year without conclusion.
  • Statement on Mine Ban Treaty Compliance Issues
    Oral statement
    Dec 2, 2011

    Steve Goose, arms division director at Human Rights Watch and head of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) delegation, delivered a statement at the Mine Ban Treaty Eleventh Meeting of States Parties in Phnom Penh.   

  • Statement on Mine Ban Treaty Stockpile Destruction
    Oral statement
    Dec 1, 2011
    Mark Hiznay, senior researcher in the arms division of Human Rights Watch, delivered a statement on stockpile destruction obligations under the Mine Ban Treaty at the Eleventh Meeting of States Parties in Phnom Penh.
  • Statement on the Mine Ban Treaty during the Eleventh Meeting of States Parties
    Oral statement
    Nov 30, 2011

    Steve Goose, arms division director at Human Rights Watch and head of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) delegation, delivered a statement at the Mine Ban Treaty Eleventh Meeting of States Parties in Phnom Penh.  

  • Landmine Treaty: More Members, but Use Persists
    Press release
    Nov 22, 2011

    The new use of landmines in a handful of countries threatens to undermine progress toward banning the weapons. The membership in the international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines has expanded, however, to 158 countries.