On the tenth anniversary of the Ottawa convention banning anti-personnel mines celebrated on 3 December 2007, the ICRC calls on all remaining states to accede to the Treaty. This report shows victims from Iraq and Chechnya as well as clearance work in South Lebanon.

Geneva (ICRC) – Much progress has been made in the past decade towards eradicating anti-personnel mines worldwide, but the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) views the 10th anniversary of the Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-personnel Mines (Ottawa Convention), on 3 December, as a time when States should pause to reflect on the major challenges that remain.

Brussels (ICRC) – The use of weapons such as cluster munitions and anti-personnel mines, and their regulation under international humanitarian law (IHL), will be the focus of this year's Bruges Colloquium in Belgium.

Geneva (ICRC) – The annual meeting of the 151 States party to the Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines opened today in Geneva, nine years to the day after governments agreed to comprehensively ban these inhumane and indiscriminate weapons.

Geneva/Zagreb (ICRC) - The annual meeting of the 147 States party to the Convention on the prohibition of anti-personnel mines opened today in Zagreb, Croatia with a call from the vice-president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for governments to devote more effort and resources to clearing mined areas and ensuring mine victims have access to the lifelong assistance they need.

The Nairobi Summit on a Mine-Free World concluded today with a renewed commitment by the 144 States that have banned anti-personnel mines to persevere in their efforts to eradicate this insidious weapon.

Geneva (ICRC) – Exactly five years have passed since the global ban on anti-personnel mines took effect and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) welcomes the remarkable progress achieved in this period. So far 141 States have joined the Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines and all the others have made political commitments to the eventual total elimination of anti-personnel mines.

The ICRC's regional delegate based in Buenos Aires took part in a ceremony on 4 December at which the last remaining Argentine anti-personnel mines were destroyed at Campo de Mayo military base.

On 13 October 2003, Sudan deposited its instrument for ratification of the Convention on the prohibition of the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of anti-personnel mines and on their destruction (Ottawa Convention), thus becoming the 140th State to join the international effort to put an end to the widespread suffering caused by these weapons.

Geneva (ICRC) - Six years ago, the adoption of the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines brought tremendous hope to mine-affected communities around the world. The Convention held out the promise of a safer life, free of the fear of death or mutilation by hidden mines infesting fields, pastures, footpaths and playgrounds.

Close to 30 million stockpiled anti-personnel mines have been destroyed by the Ottawa Convention’s first deadline. Forty-four States Parties will have completely destroyed their stocks on time for their 1 March 2003 deadline, which coincides with the fourth anniversary of the Convention’s entry into force.

Five years ago, one hundred twenty-one States signed a Convention in Ottawa which the ICRC claimed at the time marked the "beginning of the end of anti-personnel landmines", a weapon that was identified as the cause of immense and irreversible human suffering throughout the world.

Geneva (ICRC) – President Jakob Kellenberger of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is leading a delegation from the organization at a conference in Oslo on "The Future of Humanitarian Mine Action" (13-14 September 2002).