1. The Right to Sight and to Walk Without Fear

2. 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

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

4. 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

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