«Land mines»19 quotes & wishes. August
Quotes and wishes: «Land mines»
Agents of death and destructionWe must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali Quotes and wishes: «Land mines»
Another obstacleNot only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but the presence or even the fear of the presence of a single landmine can prevent the cultivation of an entire field, rob a whole village of its livelihood, place yet another obstacle on a country’s road to reconstruction and development.
Kofi Annan Quotes and wishes: «Land mines»
Do you knowDo you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf Quotes and wishes: «Land mines»
Essential thingsUNICEF is doing amazing things here. They’re helping these groups of kids to be mine aware, and using drama and workshops to teach children in all of the schools in the area to be aware of mines and what to do if they find one, and if somebody’s hurt, not to rush in – all of the essential things that kids need to know.
Ewan McGregor Quotes and wishes: «Land mines»
Every dayEvery day women and children are killed and maimed by landmines long after wars are over.
Heather Mills Quotes and wishes: «Land mines»
Global tragedyThe problem of land mines is a global tragedy. In all probability, land mines kill more children than soldiers, and they keep killing after wars are over.
Bill Clinton Quotes and wishes: «Land mines»
How can theyLand mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical weapons are weapons designed to inflict pain and death on human beings. Most victims are civilians, women and children. How can arms manufacturers, weapons designers, plant managers, politicians, who have families of their own whom they love, be so insensitive when it comes to the suffering of other human beings?
Jose Ramos-Horta Quotes and wishes: «Land mines»
I can’t imagineAs a footballer I can’t imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.
Ryan Giggs Quotes and wishes: «Land mines»
ImmoralThe devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu Quotes and wishes: «Land mines»
Making choicesLife is about making choices: you can either spend three quid on a glossy magazine or you can spend it clearing three square metres of minefield and help give people their lives back. As simple as that.
Twiggy Lawson Quotes and wishes: «Land mines»
Mine-free planetTogether we have given the world the possibility of one day living on a truly mine-free planet.
Jody Williams Quotes and wishes: «Land mines»
One of the most important tasksThe eradication of anti-personnel mines around the world is one of the most important tasks facing the international community.
Norman Jewison Quotes and wishes: «Land mines»
Silent killersIt is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do not respect any of these accords. And as long as these silent killers linger after wars, children will never know peace.
Danny Glover Quotes and wishes: «Land mines»
The landmine cannot tell the differenceThe landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal… once peace is declared the landmine does not recognize that peace. The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims.
Jody Williams Quotes and wishes: «Land mines»
The most barbaric weapons of warLandmines are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because they continue to kill and maim innocent people long after the war itself has ended. Also, fear of them keeps people off the land, and thus prevents them from growing food.
Kofi Annan Quotes and wishes: «Land mines»
They’ve enough weapons for warIt’s angering that not everybody has signed this treaty to ban landmines. It’s disgusting, it really is, because it is fact that (mines) hurt a high percentage of civilians. They’re not effective in any other real way. They’ve enough weapons for war.
Angelina Jolie Quotes and wishes: «Land mines»
This would surely make them stopOfficials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make them suffer, because this would surely make them stop.
Jackie Chan Quotes and wishes: «Land mines»
Unacceptable tollMillions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable toll on lives and limbs, and people’s livelihoods.
Ban Ki-moon Quotes and wishes: «Land mines»
We can make it a realityA mine-free world does not need to be a dream - together, we can make it a reality.
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