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...years ago 122 nations signed the Ottawa Convention, a landmark agreement that banned the production, sale and use of land mines. The impact has been significant. The number of victims killed or maimed annually has fallen from 26,000 in 1996 to less than half that today. Afghanistan, which signed the treaty in 2002, has seen cases more than halved from 2000 in 2001 to 796 last year. Still, the stories of Helal, Mansoor and Karami reveal a reality that no treaty can erase. "Mines don't just cut off legs," says Mansoor, "they destroy the soul. If someone loses...
...gift was born over years of cooperation with the Kennedy School, which often hosted the winners of the Gleitsman awards. The 2007 International Activist Award will be presented to Sakena Yacoobi, founder of the Afghan Institute of Learning, at the Kennedy School tomorrow. “The agreement was signed back in 1996,” Rosché said, adding that it came out of a close relationship with Albert Carnesale, who served as dean of the Kennedy School from 1991 to 1995. Rosché said she hopes the gift will help expand the activities of the Center for Public...
Felicia Jacques, the development manager for The Community Builders Inc.—Charlesview’s developer which has led the negotiations since 2004—said that the agreement will prove beneficial for the apartment’s residents...
Raisa Shapiro, who has lived in the complex for the last 17 years, said she is excited about the agreement...
...slide of four points over the previous month. It also constituted a drop of 16 points from his presidential high of 65% in July. Then, Sarkozy's actions impressed pundits and the public alike by pushing through a flurry of reforms into law - and staging diplomatic coups by brokering agreement on the simplified European Union treaty; freeing Bulgarian medics held by Libya; and laying the way for restored relations with the U.S. with his vacation chow-down with George W. Bush. But that razzle-dazzle has failed to achieve what French consumers are waiting for most: economic growth capable...