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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sanjay Basu)
Thu Jan 24 20:03:22 2002
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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:59:07 -0500
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From: Sanjay Basu <sanjayb@MIT.EDU>
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In three weeks, MIT students will begin a campaign to clear minefields in
Afghanistan.
Interested?
Come see Eileen Campbell, member of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize-winning
group Physicians for Human Rights, discuss the campaign to ban landmines:
Fri Jan 25, 1pm, Room 3-133
Free and open to the public
Between 60 and 70 million landmines in the ground in at least 70 countries.
Landmines maim or kill approximately 26,000 civilians every year, including
8,000 to 10,000 children. In Cambodia alone there are over 35,000 amputees
injured by landmines--and they are the survivors. Many others die in the
fields from loss of blood or lack of transport to get medical help. An
international mine ban treaty, the 1997 Convention on the Use, Stockpiling,
Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines, has been signed by over
130 countries…but not by the United States.
Find out what to do about it.
Come to the lecture, sponsored by the MIT student group United Trauma
Relief (http://web.mit.edu/utr) and the MIT Hippocratic Society. This
lecture is part of the larger lecture series on poverty, health and human
rights: http://websis.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-4010.html
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