GLOBAL: NGO concerned over US landmine policies
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NAIROBI, 1 Dec 2004 (IRIN) - An American NGO that campaigns against landmines said on Tuesday that Washington&#39;s refusal to join the international treaty banning the use of the mines had set a bad example to other countries that have not stopped using the
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua  - Nicaragua has found  thousands of anti-personnel mines left over from its 1980s-era  civil war, ending hopes of declaring the country safe from the  weapons this year.
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DELEGATES from more than 140 countries gathered yesterday seeking to eliminate and ban landmines that kill or maim up to 20,000 people a year worldwide.
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WASHINGTON - The Asia Division of Human Rights Watch has sent a letter to US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld demanding accountability in Washington for crimes allegedly committed by US troops in Afghanistan.
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African people affected by landmines are anxiously waiting for a determined common African action on landmines, an African Union (AU) official told the opening session of a four-day conference on landmines.
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he United States is treating the globe like one giant battlefield for its war on terror, eroding rights worldwide, a leading human rights group said Wednesday
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Colombia destroyed around 7,000 land mines on Sunday, in efforts to implement the Ottawa Convention that bans the use of antipersonnel mines, according to local reports.
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The United States said Thursday it has raised its concerns with Zimbabwe over a political opponent's arrest which it called a bid to intimidate and muzzle democratic opposition.
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The number of people killed and injured by landmines last year fell, says a report - but there are still thousands of victims.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The UN nuclear watchdog group expressed concern yesterday about the disappearance from Iraq's nuclear facilities of high-precision equipment that could be used to make nuclear weapons.
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A US official expressed alarm Thursday about a possible nuclear-weapons related test site in Iran and accused the UN nuclear watchdog agency of keeping silent on its own concerns about the issue.
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NAIROBI : Much has been done to rid the world of landmines since a ban was born in 1997, but major challenges, many of them financial, must be overcome to wipe the devices off the planet, a conference in Nairobi heard.
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The United States is greatly  concerned by the humanitarian crisis in northern Uganda arising  from an 18-year rebellion by the Lord's Resistance Army, a  State Department official said on Friday.
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Diplomats from countries that have signed a treaty banning land-mine use, production, stockpiling, and transfer are assessing the accord&#39;s impact at a conference in Nairobi.
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Multinational Force Iraq and the Iraq Survey Group are examining facts and circumstances regarding when several hundred tons of explosives went missing from the
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The United States has long been criticized for being behind in its promised contributions to various international organizations -- including NATO, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the World Health Organization, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and so on.
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Senior officials of 143 governments are calling for the total ban of production and use of anti-personnel landmine. Senior government officials of 143 countries across the world