LSN draws international attention to the fact that the United States did not sign the Mine Ban Treaty, the only country in this hemisphere other than Cuba still using landmines. We also launch the People's Petition to Ban Landmines, with thousands of signatures gathered to urge US leadership in Landmine Ban, as well as the Landmine Survivors Rehabilitation Database in collaboration with United Nations Mine Action Service. The database is designed to highlight rehabilitation services available to mine victims.
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December 1999LSN works with National Council of Churches to build coalition of US religious leaders in national Appeal to President Clinton to revisit US landmine policy and sign the Mine Ban Treaty. Appeal was published December 4 on the opinion-page of New York Times and is publicized through LSN website.
December 1999Oxygen Media and LSN launch "Dispatches from Southeast Asia"-Queen Noor's Online Trip Diary recalling her experiences on LSN's October '99 fact-finding mission to Vietnam and Cambodia.
November 1999Washington, DC. Landmine Survivors Network launches the Landmine Survivors Rehabilitation Database (www.lsndatabase.org) in collaboration with United Nations Mine Action Service. The website-database was designed to profile rehabilitation services available to mine victims and other persons with disabilities in mine-affected countries.
November 1999Washington, DC. Landmine Survivors Network conducts a Capacity-Building Training for Managerial Staff of the overseas networks. Participants included international trainers, landmine survivors and fourteen core network staff from Bosnia, Jordan, Ethiopia and Mozambique.
October 1999Vietnam and Cambodia. Jordan's Queen Noor and Jerry White travel with LSN Board Members and Supporters to Cambodia and Vietnam to promote humanitarian assistance to mine victims. The mission included visits to non-governmental organizations, prosthetic and rehabilitation centers, vocational training programs as well as meetings with high-level government officials.
September 1999Washington, DC. Queen Noor joins Landmine Survivors Network and key Members of Congress in raising awareness of global scourge of landmines and appeal for the United States to revisit landmine policy, destroy landmine stockpiles, sign Landmine Ban Treaty and increase US funding for demining and victim assistance programs in 2000.
September 1999Jordan. LSN participates in the Pan Arab Games for Persons with Special Needs, providing general assistance to the Jordanian Sports Federation for the Handicapped and supporting 15 survivors to attend opening of the games.
August 1999Bosnia. LSN-Bosnia hosts a Sitting Volleyball Tournament in honor of the late Princess of Wales. The Tournament brought together 45 survivors/amputees and three professional referees to compete in six matches.
July 1999New York, NY. LSN Director and His Royal Highness Prince Zeid Ra'ad of Jordan speak at Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater and LSN launches the People's Petition to Ban Landmines, with thousands of signatures gathered to urge US leadership in Landmine Ban.
June 1999LSN co-Founder Ken Rutherford publishes Banning Landmines in the American Century, in the International Journal on World Peace (Volume XVI, No. 2, June 1999, pp. 23-36.) The article uses the landmine case to discuss the character of international affairs and the uncertain role of the US, as well as the debate between military necessity and humanitarian law.
June 1999Boston, MA. LSN hosts Landmine Awareness Reception with Queen Noor of Jordan at home of LSN Board Member Vincent Ryan, and participates in UNICEF-arranged procession through Boston Common and Gala Dinner to raise funds for Mozambican victim assistance projects.
May 1999Maputo, Mozambique. Representatives of Landmine Survivors Network joined over 800 delegates in Maputo for the opening of the First Meeting of States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty. LSN introduces legal memorandum, State Responsibility for Landmine Survivor Assistance, and is re-elected as Chair of Working Group for Victim Assistance, International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
May 1999Maputo, Mozambique. First international training of LSN core staff from five countries.
May 1999Quelimane City, Mozambique. LSN-Mozambique becomes registered and can officially begin activities, including landmine survivor interviews within Zambezia Province.
April 1999Amman, Jordan. LSN Jordan is registered as a non-governmental organization and a local Coordinator, Mona Abdeljawad, was hired to set up the Network.
March 1999LSN co-founder Ken Rutherford publishes The Hague and Ottawa Conventions: A Model for Future Weapon Ban Regimes? in The Nonproliferation Review (Volume 6, Number 3, Spring-Summer 1999, pp. 36-49).
March 1999Washington, DC. U.S. military and civilian landmine survivors hold Press Conference with Senator Patrick Leahy and launch an appeal-"Why not US?"-to President Clinton to sign the Mine Ban Treaty.
February 1999Bosnia, LSN Director and Board Member Jane Olson join Howard Buffet on fact-finding mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
January 1999Princess of Wales Memorial Fund announces grants for landmine-related projects and LSN is named as only American-based charity to receive support from Fund.
January 1999Washington, DC. LSN begins partnership with United Nations Mine Action Services (UNMAS) and United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) to build global Rehabilitation Database for Landmine Survivors.
