The Latvian parliament on Wednesday voted in favour of withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention international treaty that bans ...

The Latvian parliament voted to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention, a treaty banning anti-personnel landmines, citing ...

The conversation on landmines cannot be reduced to a binary. Canada must instead explore whether there’s a different path ...

A three-decade global effort to end the use of land mines appears to be over. Finland and other European countries are ...

Finland has announced plans to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty as countries in Europe shore up against potential threats from Russia. The Ottawa Treaty is the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention ...

Against the backdrop of Russia's three-year war in Ukraine, Poland and the Baltics are preparing to exit the Ottawa Treaty, the landmark agreement that saw 164 countries destroy their arsenals of ...

Against the backdrop of Russia's three-year war in Ukraine, Poland and the Baltics are preparing to exit the Ottawa Treaty, the landmark agreement that saw 164 countries destroy their arsenals of ...

On Tuesday, Finland became the latest country to announce it was withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention, the 1997 treaty banning the use, sale, and production of land mines. This follows an ...

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It was adopted in 1997 and entered into force in 1999. It also commonly referred to as the Ottawa Treaty. Anti-personnel mines cause long-term human suffering, killing and maiming civilians—often ...