Commentaries on Arms Control Treaties: The convention on the prohibition of the use, stockpiling, production, and transfer of anti-personnel mines and on their destruction

Commentaries on Arms Control Treaties: The convention on the prohibition of the use, stockpiling, production, and transfer of anti-personnel mines and on their destruction
Author: Stuart Maslen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2004
Genre: Law
ISBN:

This commentary is a detailed guide to the interpretation of the 1997 Convention banning Anti-Personnel Mines, which was adopted after a worldwide campaign to ban landmines made famous by the late Princess Diana. It includes a description of the development of anti-personnel mines, their military utility, and the negotiating history of the Convention.

Unoda Occasional Papers

Unoda Occasional Papers
Author: United Nations
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2020-01-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789211391763

This publication describes the achievements and shortfalls of the first twenty years of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, which entered into force on 1 March 1999. Published with the aim of bringing together diverse perspectives on this key instrument of humanitarian disarmament, the paper was written by pioneers and luminaries of the movement that helped achieve the Convention and that committed themselves towards realizing the Convention's full implementation. Each chapter contains discussions of an element of the Convention.