Table of Contents

Country Reports

LM Report 2003

In addition, the following people provided research and writing:

List of Contributors

ABKHAZIA: Vladimir Kakalia, Abkhazian Committee of the ICBL (Abkhazia)

AFGHANISTAN: Haji Attiqullah, Azam Haidery, & Sohrab Hakimi, Afghan Campaign to Ban Landmines (Afghanistan)

ALBANIA: Illyricum Fund (Albania)

ANGOLA: Anthony Zenos (Norway)

ARGENTINA: Miriam Liliana Lewin (Argentina)

ARMENIA: Jemma Hasratyan, Narine Mkhitaryan and Gayane Armaganova, Armenian Campaign to Ban Landmines (Armenia)

AUSTRALIA: Stephanie Koorey, ICBL Australian Network Inc., and Edgar Crook (Australia)

AUSTRIA: Judith Majlath, Austrian Aid for Mine Victims (Austria)

AZERBAIJAN: Khafiz Safikhanov, Leila Yunus, Tarana Hasanova & Arif Yunus, Azerbaijan Campaign to Ban Landmines (Azerbaijan)

BAHRAIN Violet Farid Bishay, Arab Network of Researchers on LM & ERW (Egypt)

BANGLADESH: Rafique Al Islam, Nonviolence International SE Asia (Bangladesh)

BELARUS: Yury & Tatiana Zagoumenov, Ihar Zahumionau, & Natalia Yakavets, SCAF (Support Center for Associations and Foundations) & Belarus Campaign to Ban Landmines (Belarus)

BELGIUM & LUXEMBOURG: Koen Baetens & Stan Brabant, Handicap International Belgium

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: Wenche Brenden & Slavisa Bjelogrlic (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

BOTSWANA, LESOTHO & SWAZILAND: Jette Lis Hansen (South Africa)

BRAZIL: Gustavo Oliveira Vieira - Campanha Brasileira Contra Minas Terrestres (CBCM) & Adonai Rocha - Associação do Jovem Aprendiz (Brazil)

BULGARIA: Karel Bartosik, Landmine Action (UK)

BURMA (MYANMAR) & SINGAPORE: Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan and Saw Ler Wah, Nonviolence International SE Asia (Thailand)

BURUNDI: Charles Ndayiziga, Centre d'Alerte et de Prevention de Conflits – CENAP (Burundi)

CAMBODIA: Denise Coghlan & Ny Nhar, Cambodia Campaign to Ban Landmines (Cambodia)

CAMEROON, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, GABON & REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: Jonas Mfouatie & Valère Ebosso, International Club for Peace Research (Cameroon)

CANADA: Paul Hannon & Gabrielle White, Mines Action Canada (Canada)

CHAD: Gilbert Maoundonodji (Chad)

CHILE: Dana Holahan & Fabiola Fariña (Chile)

CHINA: Yukie Osa, Yasuko Kikuchi & Katsuhiko Takeda, Association for Aid and Relief (AAR), Japan (Japan)

CÔTE D’IVOIRE: Traore Wodjo Fini, Club Union Africaine (Côte d’Ivoire)

CROATIA: Maja Stanojevic (Croatia)

CZECH REPUBLIC & SLOVAKIA: Pernilla Springfeldt (Sweden)

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: Simon Bokongo Lokofo Kawaya, Association des Medecins Congolais Pour La Paix (Congolese Physicians For Peace)/IPPNW (DR Congo) & Koen Baetens, Handicap International Belgium (Belgium)

DENMARK: Denise Sanderson (Denmark)

DJIBOUTI: Abdoulkader Elmi Elabe, Association de Soutien aux Victimes des Mines/ASSOVIM (Djibouti)

ECUADOR: Gualdemar Stefan Jiménez Ponton & Jhonny Stalin Jiménez Jiménez, Servicio Paz y Justicia del Ecuador (Ecuador)

EGYPT, ALGERIA, LIBYA, TUNISIA, & SAUDI ARABIA: Ayman Sorour, Landmines Struggle Center (Egypt)

EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA & HONDURAS: Maria Eugenia Villarreal (Guatemala)

ERITREA: Don Lieber and Marcy Trueb (USA)

ESTONIA, LATVIA & LITHUANIA: Igors Tipans, Baltic International Centre for Human Education (Latvia)

ETHIOPIA: Tilahun G. Kidan & Ambachew Negus, Rehabilitation and Development Organization/RaDO (Ethiopia)

EUROPEAN UNION: Annalisa Formiconi, Handicap International Belgium (Italy)

FINLAND: Eeva Suhonen (Finland) & Sylvie Brigot (France)

FRANCE: Christine Lefort, Handicap International (France)

GEORGIA: Narine Berikashvili & Mamuka Gachechiladze, ICBL Georgian Committee (Georgia)

GERMANY: Markus Haake & Thomas Küchenmeister, German Initiative to Ban Landmines (Germany)

GREECE & CYPRUS: Louisa O'Brien (Greece)

GUINEA, LIBERIA & SIERRA LEONE: Bram Posthumus (The Netherlands)

GUINEA-BISSAU, MOZAMBIQUE, PORTUGAL, CAPE VERDE, SÃO TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE: Tiago Douwens Prats, ALEM-SOLVIG (France)

HUNGARY: Tamás Csapody (Hungary)

INDIA: Balkrishna Kurvey & K. A. Shete, Indian Institute for Peace, Disarmament & Environment (India)

INDONESIA: Silvia Dian Anggoro Yekti & Ingvild Solvang, Jesuit Refugee Service (Indonesia)

IRAN: Khalil “Haji” Dokhanchi (USA)

IRELAND: Tony D'Costa (Ireland)

ISRAEL: Ann-Christin Raschdorf, Trinity College, IIIS (Ireland)

ITALY: Emilio Emmolo, Italian Campaign to Ban Landmines/Campagna Italiana Contro le Mine (Italy)

JAPAN: Toshihiro Shimizu, Yasuhiro Kitagawa, Motoko Mekata, Michiyo Kato & John Yoshiyuki Oshima, Japan Campaign to Ban Landmines (Japan)

JORDAN: Kamel Sa’adi (Jordan)

KENYA: Cornelius Nyamboki, Kenya Coalition Against Landmines (Kenya)

KOREA, D.P.R.: John H. Kim (USA)

KOREA, R.O.: Jai-Kook Cho & Siu Lee, Korea Campaign to Ban Landmines (South Korea) and John H. Kim (USA)

KOSOVO: Andy Wheatley, Hainworth Consulting (UK)

KUWAIT: Abdullah Y. Al-Ghunaim & Said Mahfouz Center for Research and Studies on Kuwait, and Raafat Misak, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (Kuwait)

KYRGYZSTAN: Cholpon Galieva & Nurlan Brimkulov, IPPNW-Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyzstan)

LAOS: Annalisa Formiconi, Handicap International Belgium (Italy)

LEBANON: Habbouba Aoun, Landmines Resource Center for Lebanon, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Balamand (Lebanon)

MACEDONIA, FYR: Robert Pokrovac (Croatia)

MALAWI: Undule D.K. Mwakasungura (Malawi)

MAURITANIA: Boubacar Diabira (Mauritania)

MAURITIUS, COMOROS, MADAGASCAR & SEYCHELLES: Sheila B. Keetharuth & Fabiola Ramsamy, Ban Landmines Group (Mauritius)

MÉXICO & BELIZE: Claudio Torres Nachón & Georgina Echániz Pellicer, DASSUR (México)

MONGOLIA: Tungalag Johnstone (Mongolia)

NAMIBIA: Phil ya Nangoloh, Namibian Campaign to Ban Landmines (Namibia)

NEPAL: Purna Shova Chitrakar & Surendra Pandey, Ban Landmines Campaign Nepal (Nepal)

THE NETHERLANDS: Jan Habraken, Stichting Vluchteling (The Netherlands)

NEW ZEALAND and the PACIFIC (Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu): John Head, Campaign Against Landmines (New Zealand)

NICARAGUA: Peter James Sundberg and Uriel Antonio Carazo (Nicaragua)

NIGERIA: Adedeji Ebo (Nigeria)

NORWAY & ICELAND: Janecke Wille, Norwegian People's Aid (Norway)

OMAN & QATAR: Dalma Føldes (Yemen)

PAKISTAN: Faiz Muhammad Fayyaz, Pakistan Campaign to Ban Landmines (Pakistan)

PALESTINE: George Abu Al-Zulof, Ayed Abu Q'taish & Adam Hanieh, Defense for Children International/Palestine (Palestine)

PANAMA: Gabriela Torres Spalding, Asociación de Estudios Internacionales y Nacionales (Panamá)

PERÚ: Jacqueline Fowks de la Flor (Perú)

THE PHILIPPINES & MALAYSIA: Miriam Coronel Ferrer, Soliman Santos Jr., Alfredo Lubang (The Philippines)

POLAND: Katarzyna Derlicka (Poland) and Pernilla Springfeldt (Sweden)

ROMANIA: Eugen Cioruga & Constantin Lacatus, People of Sibiu for Peace/Sibienii Pacifisti (Romania)

RUSSIA: Roman Dolgov, Valeriya Inozemtseva, Ekaterina Volkonsky, Elena Korosteleva, and Kirill Polyakov, IPPNW-Russia (Russian Federation)

RWANDA: Chrysogone Twilingiyimana (Rwanda)

SENEGAL: Boubine Touré (Senegal)

SERBIA & MONTENEGRO: Stipan Sikavica & Marijana Obradovic (Serbia & Montenegro)

SLOVENIA: Jasenka Haluzan (Croatia)

SOMALIA & SOMALILAND: Ahmed H. Esa & Abdirahman Ahmed Warsame, Institute for Practical Research and Training (Somaliland)

SOUTH AFRICA, CUBA: Noël Stott, South African Campaign to Ban Landmines operating as Mines Action Southern Africa (South Africa)

SPAIN: Xavier de Montellà Laurado and Raül Romeva (Spain)

SRI LANKA: Saliya Edirisinghe (Sri Lanka)

SUDAN: Waleed Mohamed El Bashir, Sudan Campaign to Ban Landmines (Sudan) and Peter Moszynski, Globewise Communications (UK)

SURINAME: Sheila Ketwaru-Nurmohamed (Suriname)

SWEDEN: Frida Blom, Svenska Freds - the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society - SPAS (Sweden)

SYRIA & UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Ghassan Shahrour & Hidayat Al-Abyad, Arab Network of Researchers on LM & ERW (Syria)

TAIWAN: David Lee & Robert Lin, Eden Social Welfare Foundation (Taiwan)

TANZANIA: Sarah Njeri (Kenya)

THAILAND: Siriphen Limsirikul, Emilie Ketudat & Kulachart Daengdej, Thailand Campaign to Ban Landmines (Thailand)

TOGO: Désiré Yétsowou Assogbavi (USA) and Ablavi Akakpo-Badohoun (Togo), Juris-Club

TURKEY: Mehmet Balci, Campaign for a Turkey Without Mines (France)

UGANDA: Edison A. Mworozi, IPPNW-Uganda and Deogratious K Sekimpi, UNACOH, Uganda Campaign to Ban landmines (Uganda)

UKRAINE & MOLDOVA: Yuri Donskoy & Alexandr Zavialov, Ukrainian Peacekeepers Veterans Association (Ukraine)

UNITED KINGDOM: Rosy Cave, Landmine Action (UK)

URUGUAY, BOLIVIA & PARAGUAY: Josefa Suárez (Uruguay)

USA: Mark Hiznay, Human Rights Watch (USA)

VENEZUELA: Antonio González Plessmann, (Venezuela)

VIETNAM: Andrew Wells-Dang, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (Vietnam)

YEMEN: Mohamed Masood, Nadra Kadoos & Shafika Saeed, Aisha Saeed, Yemen Mine Awareness Association (Yemen)

ZAMBIA: Robert Mtonga, IPPNW-Zambia/Zambian Campaign to Ban Landmines (Zambia)

ZIMBABWE: Frederick Sadomba, Centre for Defence Studies, University of Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)

In addition, the following people provided research and writing:

• Charlie Avendaño, Mines Action Canada: Colombia, Costa Rica & Guyana;
• Ian Doucet (UK): Andorra, Holy See, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, San Marino & Switzerland;
• Annalisa Formiconi, Handicap International Belgium: Bhutan, East Timor, and Maldives;
• Marielle Hallez (Belgium): Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger;
• Mark Hiznay, Human Rights Watch: Kazakhstan;
• Justin Koplow, Human Rights Watch: Chechnya, Nagorno-Karabakh, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan & Uzbekistan;
• Stephen LeCompte, Human Rights Watch: Iraq;
• Christine-Anne Roy, Human Rights Watch: Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Haiti, Federated States of Micronesia, Morocco, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, & Western Sahara;
• Noël Stott (South Africa): Equatorial Guinea, The Gambia & Ghana;
• Briana Wilson, Human Rights Watch: Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Palau, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, & Vanuatu.