GEO 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Demining, Marshall Islands, Ottawa Treaty
17 Sep 2017
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For the solider, two out of every three would die of disease: 20th century, 4-5% of all human deaths were caused by other people, terrorist bombing, executed dissidents, battlefield casualties (world wars eps) Personnel mines and on their discursion, bans completely all anti-personnel landmines (ap mines: state parties that have signed and ratified the ottawa agreement to the ban landmines. Those in yellow have signed but not ratified. Countries in white are non-signatories to the agreement: 122 countries stated their intention to implement the treaty on 3 december. 1997: by january 2011, 156 countries have signed and ratified the treaty poland and the marshall islands have signed but not ratified. Thirty-seven, including the peoples republic of china, india, pakistan, russian and the united stated have no signed: current de-mining programs measure their programs in terms of a few square kilometres of cleared land per year. 2: afghanistan about 25 square kilometre of land cleared per year about.
