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• Standard microphones could detect buried landmines

  Published: July 29, 2007, 2:06 pm

  Tags: Georgia Tech, Georgiatech, Landmine, Microphone, Seismic, Sensor, Sensors

  safely clearing out buried landmines, but the current options certainly aren't easy on the wallet. Thanks to a recent investigation by Georgia Tech, however, commercially available microphones could actually be used "as near-ground sensors for seismic detection of buried landmines," and if effective, could replace the rather pricey radar-based

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• CCW: More scenes from a play

  Published: November 12, 2007, 12:30 pm

  Tags: Mine Ban Treaty, Icbl, Ccw, Cluster Munitions, Landmine Monitor, Multilateral Negotiations

  Campaign to Ban Landmines, with help from UNIDIR, launched the ninth Landmine Monitor report, attended by a good turn-out of media. As a means of civil society verification of the 1997 Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, Landmine Monitor plays a special role in disarmament and arms control. Far from being treated with skepticism by

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• Nations off-target on mine clearance

  Published: November 15, 2007, 6:17 am

  Tags: Cross Border, Civil Society, International Campaign To Ban Landmines, Landmines, Landmine Monitor Report, Mine Ban Treaty, Philippines

  in the campaign against landmines, many countries are not on target to meet their Mine Ban Treaty mine-clearance obligations, according to a report released early this week by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Of the 29 countries with treaty-mandated deadlines in 2009 or 2010, Landmine Monitor Report 2007 disclosed that 14 are

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• Landmines: Dead Sea Goals

  Published: November 26, 2007, 6:42 am

  Tags: Mine Ban Treaty, Icbl, Oslo Process, Landmine Monitor, Landmines, Icrc, Anti Personnel Mines

  Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and 1997 Nobel Prize Laureate with the ICBL) wrote that the agreement was an example of the "the new diplomacy" - one founded upon common humanitarian concerns, rather than traditional national security pre-occupations.Others were sceptical. But the Mine Ban Treaty has been extremely successful.

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• Cluster bomb ban would force issue - groups

  Published: May 19, 2008, 3:16 pm

  Tags: China, Conway, Dublin, Ireland, Israel, Martin, Message, Accept, Action, Ambitious, Attended, Ban, Being, Believed, Bomb, Campaigners, Cluster, Conference, Countries, Croke, Delivered, Drivetime, Hoping, Including, Issue, Ki Moon, Landmine, Manufacture, World

  It is a great pity that the US, China and Russia decided not to take part.Cluster munitions or cluster bombs are air-dropped or ground-launched munitions that eject a number of smaller submunitions ("bomblets"). The most common types are intended to kill enemy personnel and...read more

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