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April 2008: International Mine Awareness Day, 4 April 2008

Feb 2008: 138 Countries Now Supporting Oslo Process to Ban Cluster Munitions

February 19, 2008: Countries Seek to Undermine Treaty with Loophole for US Cluster Bombs

February 24, 2008: Cluster Bomb Treaty: Momentum Builds

November 2007: Mother of Soldier Killed in Iraq by US Cluster Bomb Calls on Senate to Act

October 2007: Nobel Peace Prize Winners Call for Cluster Bomb Ban in 2008

September 2007: Senate Votes to Restrict Cluster Bomb and Landmine Exports

September 2007: Cluster Bomb Ban: Former Bush Administration Officials Call for Treaty

September 2007: Senate Votes to Restrict Cluster Bomb and Landmine Exports

Cluster Bomb Ban: Former Bush Administration Officials Call for Treaty

September 2007: 80 Countries Now Supporting Oslo Process to Ban Cluster Munitions

September 2007: US further isolated, as Iraq becomes 155th State Party to Mine Ban Treaty

July 2007: Senate Panel Passes Far-Reaching Export Restrictions on Cluster Munitions

June 2007: USCBL Expands Mission to Include Cluster Munitions

May 2007: Ten Years Later, The U.S. Is No Closer to Mine Ban

September 2006: USCBL Urges Senators to Cosponsor Victim-Activated Landmine Abolition Act

September 2006: U.S. further isolated, as Iraq becomes 155th State Party to Mine Ban Treaty

August 2006: Senators Seek to Block First U.S. Landmine Production in 9 Years

May 2006: USCBL Calls on Congressional Appropriators to Support Increased Funding for Demining, Fulfill President's Demining Commitment

April 2006: Congressman Lane Evans to Retire–Leading House Supporter for Abolishing Landmines

March 2006: Mine Ban Treaty Turns 7

January 2006: Congress Blocks New Landmine Production–Requires Pentagon to Review Indiscriminate Effects of New Weapons Before Production

November 2005: Global Use of Landmines Falls, While U.S. Ponders New Production

August 2005: Pentagon Poised to Resume Production of Antipersonnel Mines

September 2005: U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines Calls on Congress to Support Increased Funding for Demining

October 2004: Considering Attending the Nairobi Summit on a Mine-Free World?

September 2004: USCBL Represented in Bangkok at UN-Sponsored Global Conference on Landmines

October 2004: Night of a Thousand Dinners to Raise Awareness and Funds on Landmines

August 2004: New International Campaign to Ban Landmines Website; ICBL Job Candidates Sought

December 2003: UN Secretary-General Speaks at Demining Event on Anniversary of Mine Ban Treaty

November 2003: New Chair of USCBL

October 2003: New 2003 Report on Global Landmine Situation Released

September 2003: USCBL Represented in Bangkok at UN-Sponsored Global Conference on Landmines

May 2003: Physicians Group Calls on US to Release UXO Information in Iraq

December 2002: Advocates Discuss Creation of Treaty to Protect Disability Rights
 
November 2002: Senator Collins (R-ME) urges Bush to Ban AP Mines

September 2002: US Senate Passes Victim Assistance Bill
 
August 2002: Support an Anti-Landmine Quilt Project
 
June 2002: U.S. and Russia May Face Anti-Mine Pressure from G8
 
May 2002: United Nations Event Honors Demining Efforts
 
April 2002: Landmines Debate on National Public Radio
 
April 2002: Landmine Victim Assistance Bill Gains Support in Congress
 
March 2002: U.S. Navy SEAL Killed by Mine in Afghanistan
 
March 2002: 80 Major US-Based Groups Sign Letter Asking Bush to Join Treaty
 
January 2002: India Lays New Mines: US Unable to Criticize
 
December 2001: Largest Gathering Ever of Nobel Laureates
 
December 2001: Researchers from Physicians for Human Rights Interview Landmine Survivors in Afghanistan
 
December 2001: More than 120 Members of Congress Ask President Bush to Give up Mines
 
December 2001: USCBL Says Goodbye and Thank You to Eileen Campbell
 
November 2001: 500 Veterans Send Letter to President
 
November 2001: Landmines on Film
 
September 2001: Landmines Monitored

May 2001: Senior retired U.S. Generals send a letter to President Bush urging him to join Mine Ban Treaty.

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