Caring for landmine victims

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS (ICRC)

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June 2005
24 p

This booklet examines the challenges involved in providing assistance to landmine victims, many of whom cannot be provided with sufficient care because of poverty and a lack of health facilities. It also highlights the responsibilities of states to the Ottawa Convention and the new protocol on explosive remnants of war (ERW), and encourages increased efforts by both health-care systems and governments to support the victims

Document No:0863/002 06.2005 6,000 

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