According to Reuters, former Beatle Paul McCartney and his girlfriend Heather Mills Monday launched a new campaign to rid the world of land mines.
Land mines take or wreck three lives an hour, every hour, every day of every year.
An estimated 60 million land mines may still be hidden in the ground in 70 countries. Each year an estimated 26,000 people are killed or injured by land mines. As many as a third of the victims are children. Britain's late Princess Diana made the abolition of land mines one of the causes she backed before being killed in a Paris car crash in 1997. Mills said more work must still be done.