Vidas Minadas: Undermined Lives

Book Description
Every year land mines claim 26,000 new victims in 64 countries. Nearly half of the people affected die before reaching the hospital. The survivors, mostly civilians, suffer horrific mutilations. A photographic collection with testimonials from land mine victims in Cambodia, Angola, Bosnia-Herzegovina, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Mozambique, and Nicaragua, this book is a tribute to all those who have suffered and to the individuals who fought for the International Campaign to Ban Land Mines, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997. Cada año las explosiones de minas antipersonas provoca casi 26,000 víctimas, la mayoría de cuales son civiles. Este homenaje fotográfico contiene testimonios de 7 víctimas de las minas terrestres en Camboya, Angola, Bosnia-Herzegovina, El Salvador, Afganistán, Mozambique, y Nicaragua. Es dedicado a estas víctimas y también a los que han luchado con La Campaña Internacional para la Prohibición de Minas Antipersonas, los cuales recibieron el Premio de Paz Nóbel en 1997.

About the Author
Gervasio Sánchez was named UNESCO Special Peace Envoy in 1998 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, received the Human Rights Award for Journalism in 1997, and in 1996 was presented with the Cirilo Rodríguez Award, the most prestigious award of the Spanish government to journalists working abroad as special envoys.


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Author Biography: Gervasio Sánchez was named UNESCO Special Peace Envoy in 1998 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, received the Human Rights Award for Journalism in 1997, and in 1996 was presented with the Cirilo Rodríguez Award, the most prestigious award of the Spanish government to journalists working abroad as special envoys.


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