US Friends push for landmine ban

US has ‘a moral obligation to the past victims of landmines and to future generations to do better’

by Rebecca Hardy 18th June 2021

Two US Quaker organisations joined thirty-four other leaders in calling on Joe Biden to adopt a new landmine policy after the administration announced that it was conducting a review.  Representatives from both the American Friends Service Committee and Friends Committee on National Legislation signed a letter calling on the US government to set out a new policy that puts the United States on course not just to ‘curtail the use of landmines’, but to ban their use without geographic exception, and to swiftly accede to the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty.