Background and Goals of the Campaign

The US Campaign to Ban Landmines (USCBL) is a coalition of thousands of organizations and people working to:

• Ban further US use, production, and export of anti-personnel landmines and cluster bombs.
• Encourage the US to join the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty and the cluster bomb treaty being negotiated in 2008.
• Get high levels of US government support for demining and assistance programs for victims of landmines, cluster bombs, and other unexploded remnants of war.

The USCBL is one of 90 country campaigns that comprise the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)—winner of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize.

The USCBL is also part of the global Cluster Munition Coalition, working for a strong treaty to ban use of cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians.

For more on the Mine Ban Treaty, go to www.icbl.org

US Campaign to Ban Landmines
c/o Handicap
International — US
6930 Carroll Avenue,
Suite 240
Takoma Park, MD 20912
Tel: (301) 891-2138
USCBL@handicap-international.us