There’s a ‘worrying rise’ in deaths from landmines
by editors@theworld.org (Shirin Jaafari) from The World: Latest Stories on (#71ZA7)
A new report by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines raises concerns about a sharp rise in the number of people killed or injured by landmines. The majority of the casualties are civilians, it said. This comes at a time when five European countries are walking away from a decades-old treaty that banned the production and use of landmines. A development that has activists worried. The World's Shirin Jaafari reports.