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The United States Must Ban the Use, Production, and Transfer of Landmines
April 28, 2021
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Amnesty International USA today joined a cohort of organizations as part of the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines – U.S. Cluster Munition Coalition to write to President Biden urging him to adopt a policy that sets the United States on course not just to “curtail the use of landmines,” but to ban their use, production, acquisition, and transfer and to swiftly accede to the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty.
Paul O’Brien, the executive director of Amnesty International USA said:
“Antipersonnel landmines are inherently indiscriminate weapons that can’t distinguish between fighters and ordinary people and maim and kill long after conflicts end. They should not have a place in the arsenal of any country. The landmine policy of the United States starkly sets it apart from its allies on a shortlist of countries that include Myanmar, North Korea, and Syria. For the United States to serve
The White House
WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to serve in national security positions.
Frank Kendall, Nominee for Secretary of the Air Force, Department of Defense
Thomas A. Monheim, Nominee for Inspector General of the Intelligence Community
Gina Ortiz Jones, Nominee for Under Secretary of the Air Force, Department of Defense
Meredith Berger, Nominee for Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations, and Environment, Department of Defense
Michael Connor, Nominee for Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, Department of Defense
Ed Gonzalez, Nominee for Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security
Letter to President Biden on Classification Reform
April 21, 2021
The White House
Dear President Biden,
As organizations interested in government transparency, accountability, and human rights, we support the administration’s goal to work toward “rebuilding trust with the American people” and we strongly endorse your commitment to “the highest standards of transparency.” Rebuilding trust requires openness and honesty, and also requires taking a serious look at the problem of excessive national security secrecy, which has expanded unabated over many decades and enabled abuses of power and violations of human rights and civil liberties. Particularly as the nation approaches the 20th anniversary of the September 11th terror attacks later this year, now is the time to begin to peel back the layers of unwarranted and harmful secrecy that have built up over those twenty years and more.