Mine Action News - archive
May '08
- CHINA donates 600,000 USD for demining
- 2,500 mines cleared from northern IRAQ
- ICBL urges all countries to join newly enacted UN disability rights convention
- CAMBODIAN embassy in Washington plans wine tasting for mine clearing
- Landmine blast kills 9 in PAKISTANI border town
- SUDAN: 'I have a mine in my living room, what should I do?
- LEBANON: MAG cleared 287,255 sq meters during March
- Rats to de-mine northern region of UGANDA
- Plans to clear landmines on the FALKLAND ISLANDS
April '08
- Mongooses 'can sniff-out landmines'
- Europe and UN to help JORDAN clear border landmines
- "Fragments" art exhibit to return to LONDON
- RUSSIA to clear landmines in SERBIA
- CAMBODIAN mine legacy lives on after Pol Pot
- Slideshow: UXO in DARFUR
- US NGOs donate wheelchairs to poor in VIETNAM
- WEST AFRICA: Renewed call to ratify Ecowas Arms Convention
- NORWAY: Ski trek for landmine charity is nearing finish
- UN mine service considers new ways to clear land more effectively
- CONGO: Hidden killers on the loose
- UGANDA: Landmine victims appeal for help
- IRAQ: Two thousand demining jobs up for grabs
- GAMBIA: 3 months after Gilanfari landmine explosion, no sign of demining
- European football teams team up with the ICRC to help victims of landmines in AFGHANISTAN
- UN says unexploded ordnance in IRAQ hampers development projects
- Charity boxing match scores a knockout for landmines
- Landmines exist in nearly every governorate of YEMEN
- SPLA destroys landmines in SUDAN
- AUSTRALIA commits $10m to clear AFGHANISTAN landmines
- UNICEF boosts mine awareness in IRAQ
- IRAQ marks international day for mine awareness
- Landmine victim helping CYPRUS become mine free
- U.N.: AFGHAN mines killed more than 600 in '07
- The long, long cleanup in LAOS
- Ahead of International Day, senior UN official urges support for mine action
- International day for mine awareness and assistance in mine action observed in SUDAN
- 2008: Crunch time for mine action
- KPC marks United Nations International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action in KOSOVO
- International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action observed in LEBANON
- Jaipur foot for ANGOLA landmine victims
- FRANCE recognizes International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action
- Int'l Mine Action Day marked at OSCE-supported centre in TAJIKISTAN
- UGANDA: Landmine programme has saved millions
- Landmines no threat to IDPs in UGANDA
- ANGOLA: Amputee beauty pageant crowns Miss Landmine 2008
- PAKISTAN: Landmines ruin lives, leave hundreds dead
- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon marks International Mine Action Day
- Senior UN official marks International Mine Action Day
- Girl Scouts Do A World Of Good
- SUDAN demolishes over 6000 landmines in Juba
- CANADA: University of Waterloo students develop new landmine technology
- Dith Pran, Photojournalist and Survivor of the Killing Fields, Dies at 65
- UN mine expert loses part of leg in Cyprus blast
March '08
- Football's Ronaldo named Red Cross ambassador for landmine victims campaign
- CANADA continues its support for OAS mine action program
- CHILE to spend millions removing borders' landmines
- ANGOLA to host landmine pageant
- Feds commission NMC students to conduct study on WWII ordnance
- Two more deminers killed in AFGHANISTAN
- Women join demining charge in south SUDAN
- Five Afghan deminers shot dead
- OCHA Situation Report #2: ALBANIA ammunition depot explosion
- NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency experts to visit Azerbaijan
- YEMEN: Landmine-free by 2009?
- OCHA Situation Report: ALBANIA ammunition depot explosion
- Private companies to remove landmines in KOREA
- BOSNIA blast kills two mine clearers, injures one
- GERMANY donates mine detectors to ETHIOPIA
- LEBANON: Farmers Struggle to Stay on Their Land
- Nobel laureate speaks on landmines at Cornell University
- New York art exhibit raises funds, awareness for landmine problem
- Albania mourns 17 killed in ammunition depot blast; 3 arrested, accused of negligence
- Eight killed in Ethiopian landmine blast
- IRELAND pledges 2 million euros towards global landmine clearance
- Foreign Policy publishes photo essay on MineTech's clearance in IRAQ
- U.S. contributes major boost for OAS demining in COLOMBIA
- BOSNIA: Buried landmines impede tourism in and threaten locals
- CAMBODIA: Promoting economic security among landmine victims
- ITALY continues its aid to OAS mine action efforts in COLOMBIA
- Removing debris of war opens mountain sanctuary in AFGHANISTAN
- Landmine photos show remnants of war in VIETNAM
- California lecturer organizes campaign to remove landmines in AFGHANISTAN
- DynCorp International employee barters with AFGHAN children using soccer balls for safety
- COLOMBIA: Alarming increase in landmine casualties
- YEMEN uses German Shephards to find long-buried landmines
- BURMA tops list for landmines
- United States Civil War Relics Collector Killed by Ordnance
- NICARAGUA: Landmine-free by 2009?
- Sudan: The Battle is Gone But Landmines Remain
February '08
- ANGOLA: Government to set up 11 demining brigades countrywide
- Some 1,500 COLOMBIANS leave homes for fear of minefields
- DR Congo: Camp Ngashi clearance completed
- EGYPT: Unexploded mines block development in northwest
- NGO clears IRAQI minefield
- Tropical soils impede landmine detection
- Climbers call to help clear landmines blocking way to AFGHAN mountain
- IRAQ: Government plans massive mine clearance operation
- SUDAN: The battle is gone but landmines remain
- Ridding the community of SALW in KURDISTAN region
- IRANIAN landmines found in taliban commander's house
- Foreign doctors killed by landmine in SOMALIA
- UGANDA: Over 900 mines destroyed in Acholi
- United States Efforts to Protect International Aviation from Man-Portable Air Defense Systems Attacks
- Double amputee walks again with the help of bluetooth technology
- Some Countries to Miss Mine Treaty Deadlines
- Wartime bombs and landmines still plague central provinces of VIETNAM
- More Land To Be Cleared Of UXO in LAOS
January '08
- CHILE removes mines from BOLIVIAN border
- ANGOLA: Over 100 AT, 250 AP mines deactivated
- ANGOLA: Over 130 landmine victims re-integrated
- AFGHANISTAN: Landmines and UXO kill and maim hundreds in 2007
- Reporter killed by landmine in NIGER
- IRAQI civil defense corps hands over large explosives cache to KAZAKH soldiers
- CAMBODIA: Chilling radio ad donated in support of landmine victims
- NIGER on landmine alert
- SRI LANKAN minister dies after landmine attack
- Wartime bombs and landmines still plaguing the central provinces of VIETNAM
- Jumping across LONDON, raising money for landmine cause
- LAO PDR strengthens UXO clearance
- Donor funds needed in MAURITANIA
- AZERBAIJAN needs $600M to clear occupied lands
- AFGHAN forces discover stockpile of APMs
- ANGOLA hails new success in demining
- How Does It Stack Up? The Mine Ban Convention at 10
- MAG Removes 100,000 Pieces of UXO in VIETNAM
- INDIA has 4 Million Mines Stockpiled
- Two Killed While Demining in BOSNIA
- HAWAIIAN Nature Reserve Reopens after UXO Clearance
- U.S. Still Top Financial Contributor to Humanitarian Mine Action
- New Jersey church donates magnetic detectors for demining in TAJIKISTAN
- Bombing in ALGERIA kills nine UN staff members
- YEMEN: 5 die every month as a result of landmines, report says
December '07
- Deminers 'need one more year' to clear cluster bombs
- A decade of demining
- ZAMBIA facing landmine threat
- U.S. tests anti-IED laser
- GAMBIA: Canadian NGO, UNICEF launch landmines education
- THAI deminers badly underfunded
- Hailstorms set off cluster bombs in southern LEBANON
- Charting progress and challenges at 10th anniversary of the Mine Ban Convention
- MOROCCO backs efforts to clear landmines
- ANGOLAN mine victims compete in beauty pagaent
- UN proposes US$404 million initiative to remove landmines
- Cornell engineering students design mechanical minesweeper
November '07
- Disabled World Cup for volleyball kicks off in CAMBODIA
- Ex-Supreme's singer raises mine awareness
- IED attacks decline in Iraq (link to short description with audio news report)
- Funding available for environmental R&D; seeking proposals on UXO remediation
- Landmine casualties drop in 2006, victim aid often insufficient
- BRITAIN, others likely to miss 2009 deadline for clearing landmines
- Pupils' landmine film to screen in LONDON
- Forty million mines destroyed under Ban Convention
- LSN co-founder and mine survivor calls for end to 'victim mentality'
- CAMBODIA landmines clearance pushed back 10 years
- Still a long way to go for BOSNIA to reach mine-free goals
- Art inspired by landmine victims
- BAHRAIN to ratify mine ban
- BURUNDI: Project begins with MANPADS destruction
- Nearly 1,600 displaced Afghans return home this year with UN assistance
- YEMEN: Situation could worsen in north amid claims of new landmines being laid
- Lebanon: UNIFIL's Indian battallion treats over 80 mine victims in Jaipur foot clinic
- Turning CAMBODIA's minefields into gardens
- Mine targeting police forces in INDIA injures bus passengers
- Cornell engineering students design unmanned minesweeping vehicle
- MOZAMBIQUE sets five-year target to clear landmines
- Over 2000 explosive devices deactivated in ANGOLA
October '07
- Nearly 1,600 displaced Afghans return home this year with UN assistance
- INDIA: Valley rebels shed mines from arsenal
- FRANCE tells ALGERIA location of landmines
- Fields of peril in AZERBAIJAN
- Educating NEPALESE youths about the dangers of explosives
- SUDAN: Landmine clearing operation complete work over 223 km in eastern region
- Villagers flee MYANMAR's deadly landmines
- Speakers to tell 'cluster bomb' story
- AZERBAIJAN: new play areas protect children from landmines
- BULGARIA contributes to a SALW destruction project in ALBANIA
- Landmines killed or wounded 2000 in DRC
- SOMALIA: Puntland authorities grant unprecedented access to stockpiles
- UAE task force clears over 6,800 mines from LEBANON
- Explosion in MOZAMBIQUE forces evacuation of neaby families
- CANADIAN troops unveil new weapon against IEDs
- UGANDA: IDPs returning home still face many challenges
- AFGHANISTAN: Strategic Kabul hill demined
- ECUADOR delivers report on destruction of over 1,000 landmines
- IRAQ: Agriculture benefits from clearance operations
- New threat in NIGER as flooding displaces landmines
- University in CANADA hosts photo exhibit of landmine victims
- High tech's slow march in landmine campaign
- Robots to the rescue in mine action
- LEBANON: Yohmer village - a year on
- SLOVENIAN-run ITF and UNMAS sign cooperation agreement
- EU donates €2 million for mine action in YEMEN
- YEMEN: Lawyers seek settlement for landmine victims
- UGANDA: Gulu landmine victims earn a living from clay
- UN Mine Action Team calls for Cluster Bomb Treaty
September '07
- Poisoned by war, LEBANON reaps meagre harvest
- AFGHANISTAN: Last 3 kidnapped deminers freed
- SERBIA to learn where bombs were dropped
- Part of AFGHAN capital now free of landmines
- 3 casualties in explosion in VIETNAM (link no longer active)
- UN experts enter LEBANON battle camp
- Filmmakers and cast to donate movie profits to demining in former YUGOSLAVIA
- AFGHANISTAN: Gunmen free 10 abducted deminers
- ANGOLA: Call to ex-Plan fighters to help demine country
- AFGHAN war amputees become prosthesis pros (link no longer active)
- LEBANON: ECHO funded mine/UXO clearance project in the Tyre region
- U.S. Senate passes bill on cluster bomb use
- Amputee to walk for charity in CAMBODIA
- Deminers demand security guarantees before resuming work in Kandahar, AFGHANISTAN
- Coalition Munitions Clearance Prorgram security contractor killed in IRAQ
- ANGOLA: 250 kilometers of road opened by Mines Advisory Group
- TAIWAN: Vice Minister Yang signs anti-landmine resolution
- COLOMBIAN rebels increase landmine use, raising casualties
- Groundbreaking radar-based landmine detection system developed
August '07
- NEPAL: Committee to be formed to aid landmine victims
- Cluster bomb kills one demining expert and wounds three others in LEBANON
- U.S. landmine clearance to expand in VIETNAM
- Vehicle-mounted laser pod could destroys bombs
- IRAQ: First phase of Landmine Impact Survey (LIS) complete
- Landmines uprooted by floods pose serious risk in NEPAL
- MOZAMBIQUE says landmine deadline will not be met (link no longer active)
- Cougar armored trucks to stalk mines on the battlefield
- U.S. condemns terrorist use of landmines in COLOMBIA
- Mobile movie theater conducts mine risk education in LEBANON
- Three deminers kidnapped and murdered in AFGHANISTAN
- Conventional weapons being destroyed globally with U.S. aid
- Professor invents device to aid landmine survivors in CAMBODIA
- European Commission signs contract for demining of CYPRUS buffer zone
- Mine-resistant vehicle to provide protection for U.S. troops (link no longer active)
- COLOMBIA: Mine use skyrockets, creates world leader in mine victims
- MAPA makes sweeping progress in AFGHANISTAN
- UK and KENYA share Firmin Sword of Peace
- CHINA clearing landmines on Sino-Vietnamese border
- Cheap microphones listen for landmines
- Landmines in GUINEA BISSAU: The forgotten crisis?
- NORTHERN IRELAND: Student wins grant for inventing limb
- French deminer with U.N. peacekeepers killed in SOUTH LEBANON explosion
July '07
- Rats and cats team up to sniff out landmines
- African elephants learn to avoid landmines in war-torn ANGOLA
- LEBANON: Commercials to warn children of danger of unexploded ordnance
- Costs of war and recovery in LEBANON and ISRAEL
- Portable robots intercept IEDs in IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN
- Over 600 tons of weapons destroyed in ANGOLA
- Illinois man builds landmine detonation device
- UXO disposal class is "booming"
- AFGHANISTAN: Monthly landmine casualties down, says UN
- U.S. Senate considers curtailing purchase of cluster bombs using American military aid
- The Sole of Africa launches global landmine initiative for Africa
- U.S. Commemorates Small Arms Destruction Day with "Millionth Weapon Destruction" Events
- The NETHERLANDS suspends the use of cluster bombs
- U.S. Senate considers cluster munitions restrictions in new foreign operations appropriations bill
- 16 abducted AFGHAN deminers released by Taliban
- U.S. makes statement on cluster munitions
June '07
- Red Cross announces new landmine awareness program in ARMENIA
- U.S. elementary school sponsors mine detection dog (link no longer active)
- Taliban forces expected to release captive deminers
- Mine action in AFGHANISTAN allows 1000 families to return home
- Refugees in LEBANON return to threat of UXO
- NEPAL: Clearance of explosives a post-conflict challenge
- JORDAN offers to help KUWAIT with ERW removal
- Two casualties in landmine clearance accident in BOSNIA
- JAPAN to back ban on cluster bombs
- Alliance of BURMESE opposition organisations issues position on landmines
- U.K. offers demining equipment to NEPAL army
- U.S. Surgeon helps disabled get to their feet in VIETNAM
- UNMACA and AFGHANISTAN government sign Memorandum of Understanding for victim assistance and mine risk education
- UNITED STATES making progress in elimination of shoulder-fired missiles.
- Unexploded ordnance hampering aid deliveries to refugees in LEBANON
- Researchers pursue truly functional prosthetic arm
- NEPAL: Some 12,500 landmines planted by insurgents
- SOUTH AFRICAN "scrap" turns out to be live mortar
- U.S. Department of State Awards $2.2 million to Deal With ERW and Landmines
- Croatian mines replaced by wines
- U.S. Army allows amputee soldiers to return to active duty (link no longer active)
- New Jersey beach re-opens after nearly 3 months of unexploded munitions disposal
- A second provincial governor donates land to injured deminers in AFGHANISTAN
- 68 countries push for ban on cluster munitions
- CANADIAN soldier/landmine victim still game for action (link no longer active)
- CROATIAN bees sniff out landmines
May '07
- Provincial govenor in AFGHANISTAN donates land to 26 injured deminers
- New grants to deal with explosives remnants of war and landmines
- Mine kills 9 policemen in INDIA
- ANGOLA: Soldiers rehabilitate road, bridges
- Six soldiers killed in TURKEY landmine blast
- NIGER: Aid workers in north threatened by carjacking, fresh landmines
- SRI LANKA roadside bomb, clash kill 4 soldiers
- UGANDA: Bombs after war
- More UAE demining personnel arrive in LEBANON
- Cluster bombs cause decades of harm, says study
- Report indicates 400 million people live in "minefields"
- FINLAND does not endorse total ban of cluster weapons
- Honor for injured mine clearing expert
- TURKEY: Two soldiers killed by landmine
- Soldier loses foot to landmine
- Mine explosion wounds 3 children in SOMALIA
- SRI LANKA: STF uncovers a claymore mine and a pressure mine
- ANGOLA: Mechanised demining programme launched
- An all-female team works precisely and fearlessly to clear minefields in rural CAMBODIA
- GICHD: A Guide to Mine Action and Explosive Remnants of War - 3rd Revised Edition
- Landmine blast wounds 4 policemen in SOMALIA
April '07
- UN asks ISRAELIS for locations of cluster attacks
- Armed group to plant more anti-personnel landmines in SRI LANKA
- African and European Unions unite to clear African continent of landmines (link no longer active)
- First national capacity for weapons clearance established in WESTERN SAHARA
- BELGIAN Defense Minister demands that ISRAEL pay for cluster munition clean-up
- Landmines still killing unsuspecting people in NEPAL (link no longer active)
- The human impact of cluster munitions
- UNICEF fights landmines in Vietnam
- US funding support for humanitarian demining in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- UN Secretary-General calls for elimination of landmines
- ISRAELI Defense Secretary admits cluster bomb use a "mistake"
- Press Announcement from RONCO based on comments made at memorial service held in Kabul for the 7 Afghans killed in the deminer attack
- Landmines still a crucial threat in southern SUDAN
- UGANDAN survivors plead for landmine production ban (link no longer active)
- Richard Kidd cites significant progress in removing landmines
- 7 Afghans including 6 deminers working for RONCO killed in Taliban attack
- Landmines threaten the lives of children in COLOMBIA (link no longer active)
- Swiss deminers clear path for 70,000 in LAOS (link no longer active)
- Lack of international assistance plagues TAJIKISTAN mine action capabilities
- UN commits to renewed efforts in SUDAN on Mine Awareness Day
- 170 CAMBODIAN soldiers receive mine clearance training from INDIA
- UXO threat looms after recent Kinshasa Conflict in CONGO (link no longer active)
March '07
- NEW ZEALAND work clearing cluster bombs in LEBANON is much appreciated
- Clearing landmines in VIETNAM
- UNICEF Situation Report MOZAMBIQUE, 22-25 March 2007
- Landmines still kill in southeast TURKEY
- Partial UK ban on cluster munitions falls short of target
- UN Secretary-General criticizes ISRAEL and LEBANON (link no longer active)
- CLUSTER MUNITION INTERACTIVE MAP
- FINLAND'S prime minister hopefuls debate postponing signing the Mine Ban Convention in 2016
- Two minefields discovered in UGANDA
- Mine clearance poses security challenges in TURKEY
- Schonstedt Instruments donates demining equipment to KENYA (link no longer active)
- CAMBODIA calls for united front on landmines from four members of ASEAN that have not signed Mine Ban Convention (link no longer active)
- BELGIUM criminalizes investment in cluster bomb manufacturers
- ISRAEL claims that SYRIANS threw 10 mines into area near Golan Heights on Saturday afternoon (link no longer active)
- WESTERN SAHARA: Polisario Front destroys second landmine stockpile
- FINNISH military cannot afford cluster weapons ban
- Finally, safe demining in PERU
February '07
- US clearance of unexploded cluster munitions
- Cluster munitions to be banned by 2008
- NEW ZEALAND super fund to terminate investments in landmine manufacturing (link no longer active)
- Governments meet to discuss humanitarian cluster munitions treaty
- State Department co-hosts NATO partnership for Peace Trust Fund workshop
- Pressure builds over AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN border landmines plan
- Cluster bomb conference seeks to address continued problems
- SOUTH AFRICA commended for cluster munitions stance
- UNICEF supports mine-risk education in south LEBANON
- Taliban rebels reinforce captured town with trenches and landmines
- US: Senators Feinstein and Leahy announce plan to continue efforts to restrict federal funds for use, sale or transfer of cluster bombs (link no longer active)
- PUERTO RICO: ridding former US bombing range of cluster bombs is a perilous task (link no longer active)
- The 'toys' that kill in LEBANON
- Peres interview with Al Jazeera: cluster bombs
January '07
- ANGOLA’S landmine legacy
- CAMBODIA plans to clear 28 million square meters of mined areas in 2007
- US assesses ISRAEL'S use of cluster munitions in LEBANON
- Demolition waste, damaged water infrastructure & mined agricultural land are legacies of LEBANON conflict
- UGANDA: landmines and warriors are hindering resettlement
- Ban Ki-moon's system-wide probe of UN field activities to start with NORTH KOREA
- ANGOLA: Over 7000 explosive devices (mostly anti- tank and personnel mines) deactivated near railway (link no longer active)
- BOLIVIA and CHILE build trust in efforts to work together demining heavily mined mutual border (link no longer active)
- SOUTH SUDAN'S demining priorities and other maps as of 1/2007
- LIBYA reactivates demining program
- 11 mine accidents in 2006 in AZERBAIJAN
- NORWAY to help SERBIA remove NATO's cluster bombs
- Landmines causing starvation in BURMA
- US supports Southeast ASIAN and BALKAN landmine removal projects
- More equipment to clear landmines and unexploded ordnance in VIETNAM
- Update from south LEBANON
- Update from AFGHANISTAN
- Unexploded ordnance -- killer of innocents
- UK ground troops to get state-of-the-art new robots
Cluster Munitions News - archive
April '08
- Report from the Wellington Conference on Cluster Munitions PDF
- Celebrities sign petition against bombs
- NETHERLANDS destroying CBU-87 cluster bombs
- MEXICO/ECUADOR joint statement includes commitment to cluster bomb ban process
- UNDP publication: Prohibiting Cluster Munitions: Our Chance to Protect Civilians
- Faith leaders' appeal for an international treaty to ban cluster munitions
- ZAMBIA: Championing ban of cluster bombs
- Make It Happen: A Photographic Potrait of the Human Suffering Caused by Cluster Munitions
- Statement by the Cluster Munition Coalition to the Group of Governmental Experts of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
- The terrible human cost of cluster bombs
- US to skip cluster bomb meeting in Dublin, focus on Geneva talks
- NEW ZEALAND Super Fund to stop investing in cluster bombs
- International Mine Awareness Day to kick off a month of activity in U.S. to achieve cluster bomb ban
- Strong landmark African Declaration to ban cluster bombs
- African Cluster Munitions conference underway in Zambia
- Nearly 20 African countries take part in cluster munitions treaty effort
March '08
- MSU’s Ken Rutherford appearing on cluster munitions panel at Harvard Law School
- LEBANON: This Amputation Won't Be the Last
- Cluster munitions talks gain steam
- World Politics Review: two international efforts to impose cluster bombs restrictions
- Draft treaty reached for cluster munitions ban
- Opening Address by UNICEF Official at NEW ZEALAND Wellington Conference
February '08
- New treaty prohibiting cluster munitions needs clear standards to protect civilians
- International conference opens on banning cluster bombs
- Campaign to clear cluster bombs is still a work in progress
- Wellington Conference to address cluster munitions threat
- "Bombs Left Behind" premieres Feb. 12th on HDNet
- U.S. Statement on Humanitarians Aspects of Cluster Munitions
- Ambassador: China attaches importance to cluster munitions issue
- US plans cluster bomb task force
- LEBANON: deminers find cluster bomb sites without help from ISREAL
What's New in the Mine Action Community - archive
May '08
- IMAS 09.40 Guide for the Use of Mine Detecting Dogs (Ed. 2) PDF
- 10th Anniversary of the International Trust Fund for Demining and Mine Victims Assistance
April '08
- Second edition of the Mine Detection Dogs Standards released on IMAS website
- Small Arms Control and Mine Action video featuring Sara Sekkenes of UNDP
- Disamrco supplies U.S. and ALBANIA munitions disposal project
- RONCO Consulting Corporation acquired by Wackenhut Services
- MineWolf News: Issue 1, 2008
- Third Annual International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action
- United Nations Enable Newsletter March 2008
- SUDAN National Technical Standards and Guidelines April 2008 Update
- UXO E-Newsletter, March 2008
- 2008 Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Law goes into force in JORDAN April 1
- JORDAN: 2008 anti-personnel mine ban law comes into force
- European Committee for Standardization's Workshop Agreements available for download on IMAS website
- Updated version of MOZAMBIQUE's 2005 Systematic Test and Evaluation of Metal Detectors report published
March '08
- UXO E-Newsletter February 2008
- HDI January 2008 Communique from LAOS
- Open research positions in DENMARK
- GICHD Close-Up March 2008
- MAIC February 2008 Newsletter released
- Latest issue of Ban Newsletter released
- White Paper: Putting the Impact of Cluster Munitions in Context with the Effects of All Explosive Remnants of War
- HDI January 2008 Communique
- ICBL capacity-building report for NEPAL PDF
February '08
- OCHA releases second issue of "Human Security at the United Nations" newsletter
- Roots of Peace builds school on former AFGHAN battlefield with contributions from American students
- Humpty Dumpty Institute December Communique from LAOS
- Azerbaijan Campaign to Ban Landmines Information Bulletin
- Survey Action Center December 2007 newsletter
- MAG ANGOLA update
- Former Special Representative for Mine Action designated Special Envoy for MANPADS Threat Reduction
- 8th Meeting of States Parties wrap-up newsletter PDF
- Dec. 2007 Mine Action Technology Newsletter released PDF
- Schonstedt Instrument Company matches landmine detection equipment to UN
January '08
- ICBL releases 2006-2007 KASHMIR mission report
- MAG VIETNAM December 2007 update
- Safe Passage newsletter winter issue released PDF
- Grapes for Humanity--Aiding landmine survivors in SOUTH AMERICA
- GICHD December 2007 Newsletter PDF
- Geneva Call releases new publication: "Engaging Non-State Actors in a Landmine Ban: The Geneva Call's Progress Report (2000-2007)
- New edition of MineWolf News available PDF
- First Regional Workshop 'Towards an Anti-Personnel Mine-Free South Caucasus' a Success
- MAG-Vietnam Publishes November Update
- Communiqué from HDI-Sri Lanka
- ICBL November 2007 newsletter
- UXOinfo.com November newsletter
- Geneva Call Publication: Towards a Holistic Approach to Non-State Actors? PDF
- APOPO releases November 2007 newsletter
December '07
- SOMALILAND on the way to adopt legislation banning anti-personnel landmines
- SAC October newsletter
- CIREC november newsletter (in Spanish)
- U.S. Army: Unexploded ordnance threaten soldier safety
- Queen honors UK university for demining programme
- MAG LEBANON October update
- U.S. Landmine Policy and the Ottawa Convention: Similar Path
- Humpty Dumpty Institute: October 2007 Communique from Sri Lanka
- Humpty Dumpty Institute: October 2007 Communique from Laos
- Geneva Call releases report on armed non-state actors PDF
November '07
- 2007 Landmine Monitor Report released
- US State Department accepting grants applications for dealing with landmines
- AZERBAIJAN Campaign to Ban Landmines information bulletin PDF
- Geneva Call October Newsletter PDF
- Survey Action Center September 07 Newsletter
- General Dynamics receives $189 million order for mine-protected vehicle work
- MAG DR CONGO Update
- West Virginia company donates magnetic detectors
October '07
- Over 150 new photos added to UXOInfo's photo gallery
- Proceedings of the NDRF summer conference
- Humpty Dumpty Institute: September 2007 Communique from Laos
- Humpty Dumpty Institute: September 2007 Communique from Sri Lanka
- ICBL September Newsletter
- MineWolf Newsletter
- International Test and Evaluation Program for Humanitarian Demining news
- Landmine Survivors Network news
- Small arms destruction efforts reverberate around the world
- MAPA completes 42 mine action tasks during September in AFGHANISTAN
- 10th Anniversary of Public-Private Partnerships to Reinforce Humanitarian Mine Action
- Iraq celebrates first National Mine Action Awareness Day
- Supremes' singer to sing for a cause in SRI LANKA
- Survey Action Center: August newsletter
- Mines Advisory Group launches IRAQ Mobile Small Arms and Light Weapons Destruction Project
September '07
- First Human Security at the United Nations Newsletter released
- Handicap International releases September 2007 BAN Newsletter (link no longer active)
- Agricultural products from mine-affected countries to be featured in ITALY at Squisito!
- MAG ANGOLA program update for August 2007
- Invitation for proposals to conduct a landmine impact survey in ZAMBIA
- GICHD releases September 2007 newsletter PDF
- Sarah Lee Guthrie, Johnny Irion, and Senator Patrick Leahy benefit Clear Path International
- Landmine Survivors Network August 2007 newsletter
- Survey Action Center Summer 2007 Newsletter
- COLOMBIA: ICRC activities from Jan to Jul 2007
- SUDAN: Second national victim assistance workshop scheduled for 28-29 August
- Amputee bicyclist finishes U.S. segment of global trek to support landmine survivors
- UXO E-newsletter for August 2007
August '07
- French film festival in October to focus on landmines
- New documents now available on Mine Action Standards website
- Miss Mary Wilson of the Supremes named Mine Action spokesperson
- DynCorp awarded $2 million contract to clear landmines in Lebanon (link no longer active)
- PhD thesis on testing metal detectors for humanitarian demining published
- JORDAN launches website for 8th Meeting of States Parties to the Mine Ban Convention
- Video-documentary and book launched on landmines in the Americas
- ArmorGroup awarded mine action contract in NEPAL PDF
- Latest issue of UXOInfo Newsletter
- UNDP announces results of rehabilitation project in SOUTHERN LEBANON
- ANAMA hosts guests from abroad
July '07
- Amputee Cyclist to Appear on Larry King Tuesday 7/24
- Roots of Peace founder wins national public service award
- Geneva Call Newsletter June 2007 PDF
- Med-Eng introduces blast protection helmet
- What's New in ITEP
- Updated agenda available for NDRF Summer Conference 2007 PDF
- CEN holds a personal protective equipment workshop
- GICHD releases 2007 Metal Detectors and PPE Catalogue PDF
June '07
- IMAS Website Gets a New Design
- Mine Action Technology Newsletter, June 2007 PDF
- GICHD Close-up Newsletter, June 2007 PDF
- "Jaipur Foot" coming up now in COLOMBIA
- UNMEE MACC: May 2007 Update
- ICRC Releases New Cluster Munitions Report (link no longer active)
May '07
- Cluster bomb treaty takes shape after successful ban talks
- Cluster bombs exact deadly toll for years
- Amputee cyclist to circumnavigate the globe for war victims
- NEW ZEALAND to host major cluster bomb conference
- Global push to ban cluster bombs gathers pace
- Hundreds of millions of people affected by 440 million cluster submunitions
- Peace scholar campaigns against landmines
- Dennis Barlow, Director of MAIC, is quoted in article: New weapon against land mines: rats
- Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion to perform for Clear Path International fundraiser
- Health Rights Newsletter from the Sierra Madre : A workgroup for people's health and rights
- SERBIA/MONTENEGRO: Last Balkan mine stockpiles destroyed under NATO-supported project
- Newest issue of Safe Passage.
- More UAE demining personnel arrive in LEBANON
- CANADA asked to lead call for cluster bomb ban
- Lessons for peace in ERITREAN minefield
- UNMAS Annual Report 2006
- INDIA government to allow cultivation of land near de-mined border of PAKISTAN
- ANGOLA: ICRC activities in 2006
April '07
- American veteran works to erase the pain
- Report published by HI, MAG, NPA: Deliberate handling and use of live ordnance in CAMBODIA
- Monitoring the effects of vintage UXO in MICRONESIA
- Engineering students in INDIA invent landmine-detecting robot (link no longer active)
- UN asks for record of cluster bomb strikes in LEBANON
- OAS continues supporting demining efforts in HONDURAS
- Japanese World War II mine detonated in Kansas (link no longer active)
- Three ethnic armed groups from BURMA/MYANMAR commit to a ban on anti-personnel mines
- SOMALIA commemorates the International Mine Awareness Day
- AUSTRALIA to help landmine survivors in VIETNAM
- Mine risk education in LEBANON
- UCLA develops cluster bomb and landmine safety training video for UN workers
- New GICHD internship available
- Two video examples of "village demining"
- ANGOLA honors Goodwill Ambassadors Against Landmines (link no longer active)
- Webchat transcript discussing U.S. Policy on Landmines on April 4th, 2007
- AUSTRALIA commits US$9.7 million to mine clearance in CAMBODIA (link no longer active)
- 82 countries sign UN Convention on rights of persons with disabilities (link no longer active)
- Press conference on mine action by Under-Secretary General for Peacekeeping in AFGHANISTAN
- Mine Awareness Day: Informal Working Group on Gender and Mine Action joint statement
- Workshop on soil magnetism to take place in August in UK
- Second annual observance of Mine Awareness Day
- Remarks by assistant high commissioner for human rights on Mine Awareness Day
- Wednesday, April 4th is Mine Awareness Day ... see what's happening around the world
March '07
- Norwegian People's Aid provides injured deminer with new prosthesis
- Polus Center fundraiser to aid landmine victims
- MAIC Spring 2007 Newsletter!
- Norwegian People's Aid mine action education in KURDISTAN (link no longer active)
- Children's' mine awareness art exhibit in NICARAGUA (link no longer active)
- Disarmco DRAGON to be featured on Discovery Channel
- GICHD Close-up : April 2007
- CAMBODIAN National Volleyball League (Disabled)
- Roots of Peace celebrates ten years of planting peace at the Embassy of AFGHANISTAN
- GERMAN NGO finances mine clearance in VIETNAM
- Adopt-A-Minefield is the official chair of USCBL! (link no longer active)
- The Jackson Hole Film Festival and the Humpty Dumpty Institute partner to expand use of humanitarian films
- SRI LANKA pushes for disabled friendly trains and buildings
- SAC Newsletter, February 2007
- Survivor success stories and more from IEPF
- SWISS to research impact of mines on genders and age groups (link no longer active)
- From Richard Kidd, Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post: Successfully clearing Central America's landmines
February '07
- ITEP news, January - February 2007
- LSN Survivor Report: February 2007
- NDRF has posted their 2007 activity calendar and we've included them on our event calendar.
- ANGOLA: integrating community liaison
- In CAMBODIA, art, hardship ebb and flow
- The aftermath of war
- INDONESIA becomes 153rd state party to the Mine Ban Convention
- Several AFRICAN countries use sniffer rats to reveal mines
- Landmine commission sets up field quality monitoring team in ANGOLA (link no longer active)
- Tampering: Deliberate handling and use of live ordnance in CAMBODIA
- Distributed and collaborative intelligent environment as a new paradigm to integrate humanitarian demining activities (link no longer active)
- AFGHANISTAN: Ordnance training for children (link no longer active)
- ERW still hidden under GERMAN soil
- Amputee cyclist to trek around the world to raise awareness and funds for landmine survivors
- PET Project of Missouri to help immobilized survivors in VIETNAM (link no longer active)
- INDIA: 1,500 kg of explosives recovered from Bihar village (link no longer active)
- Forgotten emergency in COLOMBIA
- CANADA supports demining in NICARAGUA and COLOMBIA through OAS
January '07
- Survey Action Center: January 2007 newsletter
- Clear Path International supports congressional bill limiting the use and export of cluster bombs
- Schonstedt Humanitarian Demining Initiative provides flow of free equipment to United Nations
- American Public Media's Marketplace spotlights the work of a mine sweeper in KOSOVO along the ALBANIA border
- CAMBODIA'S landmine legacy pervades
- ANGOLA puts the global landmine problem and its survivors in the spotlight in a new, celebratory and life-affirming way
- The Halo Trust will clear 25 landmine fields in ANGOLA
- BURMA/MYANMAR: Peace talks should include landmine issue
- JAPAN extends landmine aid to support MAGs work SUDAN (link no longer active)
- GERMANY donates 1.5 million USD to CAMBODIAN mine authority
- FRANCE offers 400 million euros to help rebuild LEBANON
- Security Council establishes United Nations Political Mission in NEPAL, unanimously adopting resolution 1740
- Humanitarian mine clearance - the importance of innovation
- Update on Catholic University's landmine detecting hovercraft
- "JORDAN has good chance of meeting 2009 Mine Ban Convention deadline," according to Mohammed Dalou, NCDR head of operations and MAIC Senior Managers Course graduate
- Post-war LEBANON faces major environmental harm
- Landmines, explosives threaten fragile peace in NEPAL (link no longer active)
- BELARUS delays plans to destroy landmine stocks (link no longer active)
- Landmine explodes outside archeological dig in YEMEN (link no longer active)
- News anchor visits Cambodia with Freedom Fields USA
- January 2007 issue of USCBL newsletter
