With the 4 April International Day of Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action just days away, the situation in Ukraine is a grave reminder that despite global progress in de-mining, children and communities continue to fall victim to mines and explosive remnants of war.
We've seen a huge change in awareness levels: the awareness around what responsible sourcing means, that the army should not be in the mines, children should not be forced into working in the mines".
Infoglide, based in Austin, Tex., whose bread and butter is making antifraud software, recently introduced a tool called MinorMonitor, which like UKnowKids mines children's Facebook pages for signs of trouble.
Throughout talks, human rights groups have denounced the FARC's continued use of land mines, child recruits, terrorist attacks on infrastructure, and other controversial tactics.
The report supports the international campaign for a complete ban on the use, production, trade and stockpiling of land-mines; programmes to instruct children in mine-contaminated areas about the dangers of mines; child-centred rehabilitation programmes and land-mine clearance with contributions required from countries and companies profiting from land-mine sales.
Summer camp participants are child mine survivors and children from mine-survivor families that also include IDPs from the mine contaminated areas along the front line.
A few hours away, at another mine, more children are working alongside their families.
For families that are like mine, the children of the house cannot even hope to enter college.
I couldn't help wondering about conservative friends of mine, their children and other folks who might have read this book if the tone had been less strident.
Most of them grew up with education and ambitions similar to mine: combining children with career and sharing family responsibilities with the partner.
