The Ottawa anti-personnel mine Treaty binds more than two-thirds of the world's States to ban the production, trade and use of anti-personnel mines, eliminate them from their stockpiles and clear them from their lands. But growing bureaucracy and inadequate funding for mine clearance means that landmines are not being cleared as quickly and effectively as they should to meet the ten year mine clearance deadline the Ottawa Treaty sets for member states.
Now a new book, launched on June 29, looks at the way forward for mine action programmes.
Mine Action After Diana, progress in the struggle against landmines, is written by Stuart Maslen and published by the Pluto Press in association with Landmine Action and the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund. The book is available, at £15.99, through all good bookshops or from www.plutobooks.com.
