Five Years & 150 Students Later: Life After Our Center in Kampong Cham

Eighty-seven of the 120 who graduated are now successful small-business entrepreneurs, 20 have found employment with local companies while 13 work for one of Cambodia’s many non-governmental organizations.

Landmine Hopscotch in Malaysia

Our new friends at TBWA-ISC\Malaysia in Malaysia contacted us sometime ago and asked to donate an ambient ad campaign in our benefit to be run in Kuala Lampur.

This Blog Celebrates 2 Year Anniversary

Happy Birthday to the CPI Blog! On January 28, 2005 Clear Path started this blog to find a new way to connect with our supporters and to compliment our NEWS section (which is actually a blog itself with the comments...

Israel May Have Violated Arms Pact With Cluster Bomb Use, U.S. Officials Say

Source: The New York Times WASHINGTON, Jan 27 — The Bush administration will inform Congress on Monday that Israel may have violated agreements with the United States when it fired American-supplied cluster munitions into southern Lebanon during its fight with...

Contact Your Senators: CPI Supports Congressional Bill Limiting the Use and Export of Cluster Bombs

Clear Path International has announced it supports a bill to be introduced by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and Diane Feinstein (D-California) that would restrict the use of cluster bombs by the United States and its allies.

Radio Show Highlights Plight of Burmese Refugees

The show is called "Kawthoolei," an audio odyssey into the troubled border region between Thailand and Burma. It's part of the "Outer Voices" project documenting the critical work of women in six places around the world.

War Torn El Salvador On the Mend

There are reminders of El Salvador’s recent instability. Every office, store, hotel, restaurant and bank in San Miguel has armed guards with pump-action shotguns, revolvers or Uzis.

ICBL: Burma / Myanmar Peace talks should include landmine issue

"An acknowledgment of the urgency of this issue within any cessation of hostilities would build confidence and would show a real commitment toward a lasting peace,"

Tampering With Live Bombs to Sell the Scrap Metal– A Deadly Job

The first step was to separate the nose section (section with the fuse in it) from the rest of the bomb. Like one would cut off a tiny rotten end of a banana, but this was done with a blowtorch. They cut the conical section off the bomb so they could sell the steel casing.

Italians teaching Lebanese kids how to avoid bombs

Using role play, songs and cartoons, Italian peacekeepers are teaching Lebanese children to recognise and avoid the one million or so unexploded bombs in the streets and fields of Lebanon. But Italy is also one of Lebanon’s, and Syria’s, major arms suppliers.

Five Children Injured in Cambodia Land Mine Blast

"They found the two mines in a black plastic bag behind their village and thought that it was make-up powder boxes. They hit them with a stick in order to take off the shells and sell them to waste-pickers. They then exploded,"

Salvadoran Sisters Ready For "The Avalanche"

No, the kind and gentle “madre” is not speaking of an earthquake, a hurricane, a tidal wave, a mudslide or some other natural disaster to which her Central American country is prone. The director of the Centro de Salud Josefina Vilaseca in Ciudad Pacifica refers to the day her little hospital’s doors will open and be inundated with patients.

Anti-tank mine kills 7 Cambodian de-miners

At least one anti-tank mine in a former Khmer Rouge stronghold in northwest Cambodia blew up on Friday, killing seven de-miners, three of whom were women. Initial investigations suggested a mine-clearing team near the town of Battambang came upon two anti-tank mines placed on top of each other. The mines detonated before they could be defused or blown up safely.

Listening Post: How would YOU improve Clear Path?

How would readers of this blog (all three of you) improve upon how we are communicating the mission of Clear Path? What do you reccomend we do to advance our work?

Dr. Cynthia of Mae Tao Refugee Clinic on Myanmar Border Nominated for World's Children Prize

CYNTHIA MAUNG, Burma, who has fought for the health and education of hundreds of thousands of refugee children for 20 years, both under the military dictatorship in Burma and in refugee camps in Thailand.

Canada to invest in Afghanistan`s minefield clearance and community-led development

Canada will provide $8.8 million dollars for demining activities in Kandahar Province and across Afghanistan as well as $1.9 million dollars to promote community-led development in Kandahar Province

Cindy McCain in Cambodia and How I Accidentally met John McCain

Sometime in the first quarter of 2001, I was late for my flight out of Washington, DC to New Orleans. Being the last one to board, I was assigned the only remaining seat on the plane in the Economy Plus section. As I boarded the plane, I immediately recognized the man in the aisle seat next to my assigned middle seat was Senator John McCain.

Landmines and disability: a challenge faced together

Landmines are among the most dangerous weapons in armed conflict – easy and cheap to plant, but extremely difficult and costly to remove. If not cleared, mines and explosive remnants of war (ERWs) continue to kill or mutilate long after the conflict has ended. They can last for decades, maiming and killing and disrupting the social and economic life of affected communities.

CPI Vietnam Responds to Its First Accident of 2007

Just as I entered the office this morning Duc, our logistic officer, announced that he received a phone call last night reporting of a new accident happened earlier in the day (January 8th). One person was killed on spot and another 12 year old boy was seriously injured

AFGHANISTAN: UN rejects landmines along border

“We regret the decision of the government of Pakistan to proceed with the laying of landmines and we call upon both governments to strengthen their commitment to cooperative solutions to the security problems that this region faces,” Chris Alexander, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Afghanistan, said on Monday in the capital, Kabul.