Landmines and explosive remnants that remain after the wars go on killing or wounding between 15,000 and 20,000 people a year. The vast majority of these victims are civilians and 20 percent children suffering from the effects of these devices years or even decades after a conflict has ended. In some countries, like Afghanistan, most victims are under 18 years. Colombia, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Angola, Bosnia and Iraq are the countries most affected by landmines and where 300,000 survivors live of them, most of whom suffer some form of mutilation without access assistance necessary to overcome the physical and moral.
Economically, build a mine only costs 3 euros, but the process of demining is unaffordable for most affected countries, and to locate, disable and destroy each mine costs more than EUR 750, and given that most of them are in countries with few resources.
must stop the suffering and casualties caused by landmines, which kill or maim hundreds of people every week, mostly innocent and defenseless civilians, especially children, obstruct economic development and reconstruction, inhibit repatriation of refugees and displaced persons internally, and have other severe consequences for years after emplacement.
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