No Exceptions, No Reservations, No Loopholes: The Campaign for the 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, Transfer, and Use of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction
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No Exceptions, No Reservations,
No Loopholes: The Campaign for
the 1997 Convention on the
Prohibition of the Development,
Production, Stockpiling, Transfer,
and Use of Anti-Personnel Mines
and on Their Destruction
Shawn Roberts*
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Extent of Landmine Problem
Landmines have been called a weapon of mass destruction in slow
motion.' One hundred million landmines are found in 64 countries-most
in the developing world-and they constitute a severe problem in some
twenty of these. Over 400 million landmines have been deployed since the
beginning of World War II, including more than 65 million2 in the years
* Shawn Roberts received her Juris Doctor from the University of California at
Davis. Ms. Roberts serves as the legal director for the Center for Justice & Accountabil-
ity, a San Francisco-based anti-impunity organization. She was formerly the
attorney-researcher for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Vietnam Veterans
of America Foundation (VVAF). Ms. Roberts coauthored AFTER THE GUNS FALL SI-
LENT: THE ENDURING LEGACY OF LANDMINES (Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation 1995),
a detailed socioeconomic study of the impact of landmines in Afghanistan, Angola, Bosnia
and Croatia, Cambodia, and Mozambique with Jody Williams, the recipient of the 1997
Nobel Peace Prize.
1. THE ARMS PROJECT OF HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH AND PHYSICIANS FOR HU-
MAN RIGHTS, LANDMINES: A DEADLY LEGACY 3 (Kenneth Anderson et al. eds., 1993)
[hereinafter THE ARMS PROJECT].
2. See Stephen Goose, The Economics ofLandmines, UNIDIR NEWSLETTER, U.N.
Doc. 28/29, Dec. 1994-May 1995, at 13.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/colenvlp9&div=19&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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