“We got [the ban on land-mines] to be a competition ... a campaigner would go to their government and say 'this was done here, this was done there ... what are you going to do?'”

Jody Williams

“It has been estimated that there are 110 million land mines in the ground worldwide ... Of those who detonate landmines unintentionally, 80% are civilians and 1 in 5 are children.”

Paul Farmer