The Obama Administration has initiated a comprehensive review of US landmines policy to decide whether or not the US will join the Mine Ban Treaty. President Obama needs to hear from you about how harmful landmines are to the health and human rights of people worldwide.

Email President Obama today and tell him to join the Mine Ban Treaty.

PHR shared the 1997 Nobel Prize for our work to ban landmines. Since then, 156 countries have signed onto the treaty, which bans the use, trade, production, and stockpiling of antipersonnel mines.

However, the US has refused to join. President Obama now has the opportunity to partner with every member of NATO — and every country in the Western Hemisphere, save Cuba — in supporting this critical treaty.

Landmines kill thousands of people a year, with millions more affected by the agricultural, economic, and psychological impact of these devices. These indiscriminate weapons maim and kill, and destroy families and communities. The US has not used landmines since the 1991 Gulf War; it is time for us to promise never to use them again. For more information, check out PHR's blog series on landmines.

This is our best chance to join the Mine Ban Treaty in years, and we need your support. Tell Obama to join the Mine Ban Treaty today.