PROJECT PEACEBOMB
PROJECT PEACEBOMB combines human ingenuity and aluminum non-war and war scrap metal to create bracelets that tell a story about their makers and the legacies of our shared history: the Secret War, 1964-1973, during the Vietnam conflict which left Laos the most heavily bombed country per capita in history.
IT IS ABOUT COLLABORATION.
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LEGACIES OF WAR is a Washington, DC-based non-profit that works to increase US government funding for the clearance of UXO, in Laos. In 2009, LOW pushed for and received Congressional support to increase US. assistance in 2010 to $5 million for cluster bomb clearance in Laos – the largest annual amount the U.S. has ever provided.
SIGN THE PETITION to increase funding for cluster bomb removal in Laos and assist victims and affected families.
CLUSTER MUNITIONS COALITION is an international effort to ban the use of cluster munitions: small explosive devices released from cluster bombs and have a very high failure rate.
30% of the bombs dropped did not detonate
At the current rate of removal, it will take an estimated 800 years to clear the unexploded ordnance or UXO
The majority of UXO in Laos are cluster bombs
The US, China, Brazil, and other global leaders have not signed the treaty to ban the production, use, and stockpiling of cluster munitions
The size of a fist or soup can, they often remain buried in the ground undetonated, killing more civilians than enemy soldiers and preventing war torn countries from redeveloping UXO littered land.
To find out which countries have signed, ratified and acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, check out the CMC TREATY STATUS page.
Source: NRA Lao (2011)
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