International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)

<body TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK="#FFCC99" VLINK="#000000" ALINK="#0000EE"> <p><font face="Arial,Helvetica">ICBL - International Campaign to Ban Landmines - is a network of more than 1.400 non-governmental organizations in 90 countries, working for a global ban on Landmines. Co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize. </font></p> <p><b><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) calls for:</font></b>  <ul> <li><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">An international ban on the use, production, stockpiling, and sale, transfer, or export of antipersonnel landmines</font> </li> <li><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">The signing, ratification, implementation, and monitoring of the mine ban treaty</font></li> <li><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Increased resources for humanitarian demining and mine awareness programs</font></li> <li><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Increased resources for landmine victim rehabilitation and assistance</font></li> </ul> <p><font face="Arial">Your browser does not support frames, please open <a href="frames/main.php3">this</a> page</font></p> <a href="/icbladdressbook/"><img src="/gfx/p.gif" border="0"></a> <p>As some search engines aren't smart enough to see that landmines is the same thing as land mines and also that the words land mine would make into the same thing as a landmine I had to write this little paragraph down here. <p>By writing land mine and land mines a couple of times down here one could hope that those search engines would get the idea without thinking that we try to fool them. Just to make it very clear also - that the International Campaign to Ban Landmines is not different from the International Campaign to Ban Land Mines. We are, in fact, very much in favours of banning land mines or landmines if you prefer that. Or some could maybe say a landmine ban, again land mine ban would be the same. <p>We are also in favour of banning anti-personnel landmines or banning antipersonnel land mines. Some say antipersonnel mines and others like to use anti-personnel. Others again don't exactly know how to spell and will put antipersonel or antipersonnell. <p>Jody Williams was the one coordinated the landmines campaign from the beginning, but she wasn't the creator alone. Nice organisations not liking land mines were behind her, those were Handicap International, Human Rights Watch, medico international, Mines Advisory Group, Physicians for Human Rights, and Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation came together in October 1992 to formalize the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). Just now I hope this was enough to make those search robots understand but at the same time not exclude us. Cause really those are similar terms it would be natural to have us show up under. Good search tools like www.google.com and www.alltheweb.net don't have these problems and give decent results for all. So really the experience is to use those myself whenever I look for stuff on the web. I do really hope that nobody read this since it wasn't really that interesting but just for machines to take it for real stuff. <p>Last thing I've heard is that some will even call the things land-mines. Yes you read me right - land-mines. So now I'll have to try and see if I can have those search tools trigger on land-mines too. </body>