Reports Highlight Success of Mine Ban Treaty (June 23, 2014) [1]
On June 23, 2014, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines released a series of reports [3] coinciding with the Third Review Conference [4] of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction [5]. The Treaty prohibits States Parties from using, developing, producing, acquiring, stockpiling, retaining or transferring antipersonnel mines. According to the reports, “[o]ne of the most significant achievements of the treaty has been the degree to which any use of antipersonnel mines by any actor has been stigmatized throughout the world.” Since its entry into force, the total number of new casualties has decreased, and “87 States parties have completed the destruction of their stockpiled antipersonnel mines, destroying more than 47 million mines.”