Landmines and Australia's aid program

Progress so far

• Since 1997, 151 countries have signed an international Mine Ban Convention and agreed to remove all landmines from their territories
• Of these countries 134 no longer have stockpiles of anti-personnel landmines. Together they have destroyed more than 38 million mines.
• Since 1996 the 34 states that previously traded in landmines no longer do so.

While we have achieved much, an estimated 60 to 70 million landmines remain.

For more information on landmines and Australia's aid program see on this website:

• Mine Action Strategy 2005-2010
• Australian Aid: Mine Action
• Landmines and Australian aid

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