Uniting survivors of global conflict to build a more peaceful world.

Survivor Corps has broadened its mission from helping victims of landmines to helping all those who have suffered from global conflict and its lasting effects. Formerly known as Landmine Survivors Network, Survivor Corps is a movement of people who believe that nobody is better equipped to change the world than those scarred by what’s wrong with it.

U.S. FAILS TO TAKE A RESPONSIBLE POSITION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS

(Geneva, July 8, 2008) – Less than two months after the negotiation of an international treaty banning cluster bombs, the United States says it will continue to use its vast stockpile for another decade. According to the new policy signed by Secretary of Defence Robert Gates, the U.S. will also ship cluster bombs to other countries. The United States is the leading known user, producer, stockpiler, and exporter of cluster bombs. The new policy puts the U.S. squarely at odds with the 111 other nations—including nearly all major U.S. allies— who agreed in May of 2008 to ban the production, use, stockpiling and trade of cluster munitions. The United States did not participate in the drafting or negotiation of the new Cluster Munitions treaty, which will open for signature by all nations in Oslo in December of 2008.

Jasmina Jahic

Europe – Bosnia- Herzegovina

Jasmina was injured in shelling attack in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992. She received multiple injuries and had forearm and below-the-knee amputations. Her mother was killed in the same incident, and her father re-married and left her and her brother with their aunt and uncle.

Jasmina learned about Survivor Corps partner organization LSN-Bosnia-Herzegovina from the local prosthetic center in 1999. ...