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Youth Against War Photo Gallery

Here are a few pictures of youth involvement in the landmine ban and the Youth Against War Treaty!


Children as Campaigners
Photographs by John Rodsted




A young boy throws another pair of shoes onto the Shoe Pyramid at the Trocadero. Handicap International, Paris 1997. Susan Walker speaks to the crowd outside the Whitehouse in Washington DC. Washington DC 1997. Kherm, a 14 year old Cambodian boy, talks with Swiss boys his own age about what it is like to be a landmine survivor. Liz Bernstein translates. CCW, Geneva 1996.



Children draw their versions of a mine free world at the Trocadero Shoe Pyramid.
Handicap International, Paris, 1997.


Jesuit priest Kike Figaro teaches Kherm how to use a computer. CCW, Geneva 1996. "Landmines Kill Kids". Family protest outside the Whitehouse in Washington DC. Washington DC, 1997. Kherm and Pros at a protest outside the U.N. in Geneva. CCW, Geneva, 1996.


Children dance on mine awareness day at the Jesuit Refugee Services school at Bantey Prieb outside Phnom Penh. Cambodia.


Reth, Kherm and Truk in front of tons of shoes dumped outside the U.N. in Geneva. CCW, Geneva, 1996.



YOUTH AGAINST WAR

Launch of Youth Against War in Ottawa (Dec. 1999)



Participants in the YAW workshop at the Hague Appeal for Peace (May 1999)



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