An estimated 100 million people have been victims of landmines worldwide. Every year at least 2,000 people are injured by landmine explosion, half of them are children. UNICEF says children are frequently attracted by the colors and small size of landmines and other unexploded ordnance (UXO). Confusing landmines with toys causes countless tragedies. UNICEF has asked countries to do more to make people realize the danger of landmines.

The number of children injured by landmines and other UXOs has steadily increased worldwide. Handicap International points out that children can end up scarred physically and mentally.

So far 164 countries are signatories of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2000 and later amended which annexed with a Protocol on Anti-personnel Mines and a Convention on Conventional Weapons. 118 countries joined the Convention on Cluster Munitions, and 125 countries abided by the 5^th Convention on Explosive Remnants of War.