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US refused to sign anti-personnel landmine treaty [this day at law]
November 24, 2012 by Kimberly Bennett
On November 24, 2009, the US State Department (DOS) stated that the US would not sign a treaty banning the use of anti-personnel landmines, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction. Though the US did not.... [more]
Rights groups renew calls for US to join landmine treaty
March 2, 2010 by Ximena Marinero
Several human rights groups and anti-mine activists on Monday urged the US to join the Mine Ban Treaty, marking the eleventh anniversary of the treaty's status as binding international law. Despite initial statements from the US State Department in November that the US would be maintaining its....... [more]
US should reverse current policy and sign treaty banning landmines [comment]
December 3, 2009 by Andrew Wood
Susannah Sirkin: As a founding member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) was alarmed and deeply disappointed by a Department of State spokesperson's pronouncement on November 24 that President Obama does not intend to sign the landmark 1997....... [more]
US will not become party to anti-personnel landmine treaty
November 25, 2009 by Hillary Stemple
The US State Department (DOS) stated Tuesday that the US will not be signing the treaty to ban the use of anti-personnel landmines. The announcement comes a week before the Second Review Conference the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel.... [more]
UN SG calls for universal adherence to landmine treaties
April 4, 2007 by Joshua Pantesco
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday urged all countries to sign and abide by international treaties banning landmines International Mine Awareness Day. Those treaties include the Ottawa Treaty, which bans all anti-personnel landmines, and the Protocol Five to the Certain Conventional.... [more]
US considers new 'networked munitions', rejects treaty banning landmines
September 12, 2005 by Tom Henry
US Pentagon officials are in the final stages of determining whether to implement a new weapons program that would mandate the production of a new era of landmines, dubbed networked munitions, in the face of international opposition to such weapons. Doreen Chaplin, division chief for net....... [more]
US charges Dutch citizen for crimes in Iraq
July 30, 2005 by Holly Manges Jones
The US Department of Justice said Friday that it has charged Dutch citizen Wasem al Delaema with attempting to kill US soldiers in Iraq during October 2003. Iraqi-born al Delaema is a member of the Fighters of Fallujah, seen on a videotape obtained by Dutch prosecutors showing the group....... [more]
International brief ~ UN Security Council extends mission in Ethiopia/Eritrea
September 15, 2004 by D. Wes Rist
The UN Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1560 Tuesday, authorizing the extension of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea until March 15, 2005. The resolution also approved recommendations made by Secretary-General Kofi Annan about the redistribution of military forces in.... [more]
Amnesty warns of dangers posed by indiscriminate, illegal weapons
March 27, 2003 by Bernard Hibbitts
In a statement released in London Thursday in the wake of Iraqi accusations made Wednesday that Coalition forces were using cluster bombs, Amnesty International called upon the US, UK and Iraqi authorities to immediately halt the use of weapons which are inherently indiscriminate or otherwise....... [more]
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