Landmines, Cluster Munitions, and Unexploded Ordnances Children
are particularly vulnerable to landmines, cluster munitions and
unexploded ordnance in a number of ways. These devices sometimes
look like toys and children who are curious are likely to pick
up the strange objects. Children are also at risk because they
may not recognize or be able to read warning signs. Children are
far more likely to die from their mine injuries than are adults
because of harm they do to their small bodies. Causality figures
in 2010 The Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor reported 4,191
new causalities from mines, victim-activated improvised
explosive devices, cluster munitions, and other explosive
remnants of wars in 60 States in 2010. When looking only at
civilian causalities in the last four years, each year, children
have accounted for nearly half of the total number of victims.
States with the most child causalities in 2010 were Afghanistan,
Cambodia, Sudan, Lao PDR, Pakistan and Yemen. The majority of
child causalities