Global Solidarity – April 2020
April 4—International Day of Landmine Awareness & Assistance in Mine Action The effort to stop the production and use of landmines as weapons of war continues to be an urgent issue around the world. Thousands of people are maimed or killed by landmines each year, in 84 countries. In some of these countries armed conflicts have already been resolved, and yet undetected landmines still threaten children at play, farmers attempting to replant dormant fields, women going to collect water, and other innocent victims. Governments continue to seek out and destroy these buried weapons of war, but the process is painstakingly [...]