ICBL resources on kids/landmines

Landmines and children: The Afghan case, Trip Report by Anne E. Nixon. Afghanistan and Pakistan 17 April – 12 May 1994. Available from ICBL Resource Center Tel: (967) 1 218 672 Fax: (967) 1 206263,

Email: resource@icbl.org Soft cover 32 pp.,

Mines: Children as Victims, by Rae McGrath. Newspaper: Seatro Forum, January 1994. Available from ICBL Resource Center Tel: (967) 1 218 672 Fax: (967) 1 206263, Email: resource@icbl.org 3 pp.,

Report: Children and War, Round Table Discussion. Development Policy Forum, Berlin, 19-20 September 1995. Available from DSE Tel: (49) 30 4307 342, Fax: (49) 30 4307 250, Soft cover 27 pp., ISBN:3-931227-11-1

Mines-Beware! Starting to Teach Children Safe Behaviour, a Rædda Barnen Guide, 1999. Available from Rædda Barnen Tel: 46 8 698 9000, Fax: 46 8 698 9010, Email: info@rb.se Soft cover 64 pp, ISBN 91-89366-04-2

Anti-personnel mines and children, Save the Children’s Experience, April 1994. Available from Save the Children Publication Sales Tel: (44) 71 703 5400, Fax: (44) 71 703 2278. Soft cover 11 pp., ISBN: 1 870322 89 4

Minor och Barn –en katastrofal kombination, by Carl von Essen. Rædda Barnen, 1994. Swedish.

Available from Rædda Barnen Publishing SE-107 88 Stockholm, Fax:46 8 698 9014, Soft cover 51 pp.,

UNICEF

The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children, UNGA, 26 August 1996. Available from UNICEF Division of Communication Email: pubdoc@unicef.org Web: www.unicef.org  Soft cover 96 pp.,

A Child Rights Guide to the 1996 Mines Protocol, Office of Emergency Programs, UNICEF, 1997. Available from UNICEF Division of Communication Email: pubdoc@unicef.org Web: www.unicef.org Soft cover 37 pp.,

Anti-personnel land-mines: a scourge on children, UNICEF, 1994. Available from UNICEF Division of Communication Email: pubdoc@unicef.org Web: www.unicef.org Softcover 44 pp., ISBN: 92-806-3098-9

Children, The Helpless victims of the Anti-personnel landmines, written by Dr.Samir S. Basta and Franciqoise Jaffre, UNICEF Office for Europa, Geneva. Available from ICBL Resource Center Tel: (967) 1 218 672

Fax: (967) 1 206263, Email: resource@icbl.org 3 pp.,

The impact of landmines on children: Children’s Rights in the age of land-mines, by Bruce Abrahamson.

Working paper by the UNICEF Office for Europe, Geneva. Available from UN Publication Office
Fax: (41) 22917 0027. 12 pp.,

The impact of landmines on children: Opportunity and constraints in Monitoring the impact of landmines on children, by Jo Boyden. Working paper by the UNICEF Office for Europae Geneva. Available from UN Publication Office Fax: (41) 22917 0027. 24 pp.,

The impact of landmines on children: The Rehabilitation of Child Land-mine victims, by Stuart Maslen. Working paper by the UNICEF Office for Europe, Geneva. Available from UN Publication Office Fax: (41) 22917 0027. 4 pp.,

The impact of landmines on children in Quang Tri Province – Central Vietnam, by Jim Noan, December 1995. VVAF and UNICEF Hanoi. Available from ICBL Resource Center Tel: (967) 1 218 672 Fax: (967) 1 206263,

Email: resource@icbl.org Soft cover 28 pp.,

The silent Shout, helping children learn about landmines, UNICEF. Available from UNICEF Division of Communacation Email:pubdoc@unicef.org Web:www.unicef.org

CARTOON BOOK

Mines Antipersonnel: faut po laisser faire, by Titeuf. Available from Fondation suisse d’aide aux victimes de mines antipersonnel Tel: 41 22 901 02 65, Fax: 41 22 901 02 66, Email: fondation.mines@gkb.com

ISBN 2-88258-041-X

Ivan, Sara e la terribile Minaccia, Racconto contro le mine. Italian. Cartoon book for children 9 – 11 age. 
Available from Italian Campaign to Ban Landmines Material Distribution Tel: 30 3753474 Fax: 30 377 2781 Email: mineaction@saveriani.bs.it

PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK

A Viagem Interrompida. Angola by Giovanni Diffidenti, November 1997. Available from UNICEF Angola.

War of the mines, by Nick Dunlop. Available from Pluto Press, 345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA UK

Vidas Minadas, by Gervasio Sanchez. Available from MSF Spain tel: 34 93 30 46 115

Email: Mar.Padilla@barcelona.msf.org

Leven tussen mijnen velden, by Daniel Koning. Available from Anti-landmijn Stichting

Tel: 0592 50 80 16, Fax: 0592 50 80 17

CALL FOR POSTERS

For students age 5 & Up, International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Available from US Campaign to Ban Landmines, Tel: 1 617 695 0041, Fax: 1 617 695 0307, Email: banmines@phrusa.org Web: www.phrusa.org

EDUCATIONAL KIT

"Mines!": Together, we can make a mine free Earth! , by HI and World Organization of the Scout Movement, 1999. Available English, French and Spanish languages, 35 min. NTSC, PAL, SECAM system. Available from HI Tel: 33 4 78 69 7979, Fax: 33 4 78 69 7994 Email: handicap_int_Lyon@compuserve.com

Web: www.handicap-international.org

Electronic

CDrom

Mine, Educational Game. Available from Landmines Team Tel: (41) 22 320 6711, Fax: (41) 22 320 6738,

Email: landmineteam@earthlink.net Web: http://asg.scout.net

WEB SITES

Canada www.mines.gc.ca

www.schoolnet.ca/home/e/resources

for mine action workbook (english and french):

http://www.mines.gc.ca/english/education/index.html 

Vietnam www.landmine.oxfamhk.org.vn

UNICEF

www.unicef.org

www.unicef.org/voy/

Hague Appeal for Peace

http://youth.haguepeace.org

Bosnia –Children’s Art Illustrate Pain of Landmines

www.redcross.ca/international/landmines/mines/htm

Art Gallery "War Through the Eyes of Children"

www.redcross.ca/gallery/frame.htm

WHAT CAN YOUTH DO ABOUT MINES??

Kids Against War!! Campaign initiated by Song Kosal. Information available from Song Kosal,

Cambodian Campaign to Ban Landmines, Email: jrscam@forum.org.kh

Youth Against War! More information available from Mine Action Canada (Carla Potts)

Tel: 1 613 241 3777, Email: macinfo@web.net Email: www.mines.gc.ca

Youth Mine Action Ambassador Program (YMAAP) in Canada secretariat at: 1 877 321 0860

Email: ymaap@sympatico.ca

KALM "Kids Against Landmines" Email: jiber13@aol.com or kewljules@hotmail.com

Web: http://expage.com/page/KALM

Students Against Landmines Email: uncgsal@hotmail.com

Hague Appeal for Peace (HAP) youth workers in Moscow Email: hapmoscow@mail.ru

UNICEF Internet forum for young people "Voices of Youth"

Email: voy@unicef.org Email:http://www.unicef.org/voy/meeting/war/less-reported.

VIDEOS

Title: Vanna

Produced by: Handicap International et Troubadour Films, 1998

Eric Vander Borght

Length: 57 min

System: VHS-PAL,

Language: Khmer

Subtitle: English and French

Summary: "While she was feeding the chickens, Vanna, an eight-year old girl, stepped on an anti-personnel landmine near her village in Cambodia. Her leg was stolen from her. During one year, Vanna, determined and courageous, learned progressively the new limits of her body and to confront stares. Never loosing her charm, dignity, nor her spirit, she persisted in overcoming suffering and regaining her autonomy. It took one year to produce this film, a year during which the director Eric Vander Borght and his team shared the intimacy of Vanna’s family, with the villagers in the northeast of the country, imbibing a certain "khmeritude" made of smiles, strength and nostalgia.

Vanna symbolizes the fate of 600,000 victims of this weapon, and their families, whose rights have been sadly ruined. Today, they continue to hope for massive aid from the international community, an increase in resources committed to mine action and the implementation of the Ottawa Treaty to create a mine-free world."

Available from: Handicap International France, Tel: (33) 4 78 69 79 79, Fax: (33) 4 78 69 79 94,

Email: handicap_int_lyon@compuserve.com Web: www.handicap-international.org

 

Title: Small Targets

Produced by: UNICEF, David Fiengold

Length: 26 min

System: VHS-PAL

Language: Portuguese

Subtitle: English

Summary: This UNICEF production shows the effects of the mine problem on schooling in Mozambique, it gives a history of the conflict there.

Available from: UNICEF Division of Communication New York Tel: (212) 326 7068 Fax: (212) 326 7037 F Email:pubdoc@unicef.org  Web: www.unicef.org 

 

Title: The Silent Shout

Helping children learn about landmines

Produced by: UNICEF, 1997 (directed by Michael Sporn)

Length: 10 min 18 sec

System: VHS-PAL

Language: English

Subtitle: no

Summary: Few weapons of war take more direct or more persistent aim at children than landmines. At play, on their way to school, fetching water, tending animals – for years after a conflict ends –

Children are vulnerable to landmines. The comprise 30 to 40 per cent of those injured or killed by these weapons.

This sensitive animated video, The Silent Shout, is one that deserves to be seen by children, to help them learn about landmines in an accessible and unthreatening manner. The four skillfully drawn child characters, all injured in some way by the landmines, break the silence that often shrouds this topic. Interwoven through the short video are crucial messages about what mines do, where they are planted, and how best to avoid them. And the video shows how the four children are overcoming their injuries, including psychological trauma, reminding viewers what can be achieved through determination and the support of families and communities.

Available from: UNICEF Division of Communication New York Tel: (212) 326 7068 Fax: (212) 326 7037 F Email:pubdoc@unicef.org Web: www.unicef.org

Title: Are we the enemy?

Produced by: Women’s Media Center in Cambodia, 1995

Length: 10 min

System: VHS-PAL

Language: Khmer

Subtitle: English

Summary: The Canadian Fund assisted this WMC production in which women who have been directly or indirectly affected by mines appeal for their ban. This film was awarded as a best film during the fifth International Women Conference in Beijing 1995.

Available from: ICBL Resource Center, Tel: (967) 1 218 672, Fax: (967) 1 206 263,

Email: resource@icbl.org Web: www.icbl.org

Title: 60 Minutes-The Cruel City

Produced by: Ross Stevens (Television One New Zealand)

Length: 25 min

System: VHS-PAL

Language: English

Subtitle: no

Summary: The late Ross Stevens goes to Kabul to do a documentary for the NZ Red Cross but he is so moved by the plight of the children of that city that he makes this very special and moving documentary about what happens to the children injured by mines, their treatment, rehabilitation and future life. The courage shown by the children on the video is an endearing feature of the film. The video was made 1996.

Available from: John V. Head, NZ Campaign to Ban Landmines, 6 John Sims Drive, Broadmeadows, Wellington, New Zealand. Tel: 64 4 478 1828 Email: john.head@xtra.co.nz

Title: The impact of Landmines on Afghan Children

Produced by: Mine Clearance Planning Agency (MCPA)

Length: 14 min

System: VHS-PAL

Language: English

Subtitle: no

Summary: Before switching on your video casette player, please remember that there are some very difficult pictures (fresh injuries). Avoid showing this video to children below 16 years of age!!!

This video amply reminds the world that immediate action is required to get rid of mines.

Available from: Afghan Campaign To Ban Landmines Tel: (92) 51 211 451 64, Fax: (92) 51 211 471

Email: afghan@icbl.org

Sana’a on the 1 of March 2000.