The New Zealand launch of Landmine Monitor Report 2007 took place today (12 November) at Rangitoto College in Auckland. Landmine Monitor’s Pacific researcher, Mary Wareham of Oxfam NZ, handed the report over to David Hodge, principal of the high school, at the conclusion of a day of activities on landmines and cluster bombs. Rangitoto College hosted the launch to mark the conclusion of a school term that had seen all 640 of the school’s Year 10 (Form 4) students learn about mines as part of a national curriculum piece on social action that drew on Wareham’s “Disarm” documentary film and other resources relating to landmines.

National television network TV 3 covered the report launch. Sincere thanks to Peter Harwood of Rangitoto for putting together the day’s events as well as for preparing the teaching unit on landmines.