12 March 2000 Despite strongly advocating a ban on landmines during the 1997 anti-landmines conference in Ottawa, Poland yet again refused to ratify the convention banning the production and export of landmines and the destruction of current arsenals. The convention’s text has not even been discussed by the Polish parliament. Human Rights Watch, the NGO that is pushing for the […]

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