The Right to Sight and to Walk Without Fear

Mine Ban Treaty Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction (Ottawa Treaty) 1997 States Parties: 160 34 not signed 2 signed but not ratified International Humanitarian Law

International Treaty in Force 1998: 26,000 reported landmine deaths 2011: 5,000 reported landmine deaths Source: International Campaign to Ban Landmines

Blindness from Landmines Highest rates of monocular and bilateral blindness from trauma ever reported 1% of monocular blindness from trauma (50% from APLs) Cambodia. Rutzen, Ellish, Schwab: 1996 4% of bilateral blindness from trauma (82% from APLs) Cambodia. Jackson, Foster: consecutive hospital study, 1997 24% of bilateral blindness from APLs Albania. Gilbert: blind school survey, 1997

Vision2020: The Right to Sight The Universal Declaration of Human Rights