Mine Action News - archive
December '09
- Mine Ban Convention: Despite progress, victim assistance falls short
- RWANDA and ZAMBIA now mine free
- AUSTRALIA: Statement on mine action
- UNICEF calls for universal ban of landmines
- Mine-free world: rats help save lives
- UN Chief: More countries should accede to Convention on Conventional Weapons
- RWANDA and ZAMBIA now mine-free
- GERMANY assists SRI LANKA in demining
- U.S. sends delegation to Ottawa Convention Second Review Conference
- Mines take terrible toll despite UN progress to eliminate them
- ANGOLA announces demining of Licua runway
- UK and FRANCE work together for worldwide arms-trade treaty
- Landmine deaths increase in TURKEY
- UN top official asks SRI LANKAN govt to speed up demining
- GERMANY assists SRI LANKA in demining
- IRAQ to launch landmine-clearing campaign
November '09
- LEBANON closer to signing land-mine-ban pact
- CROATIA: 36 landmine warning signs demolished
- CHINA's mine clearance training
- Two deminers injured in northern SRI LANKA
- Two Landmine Victims in Turkey Every Week
- Glowing bugs could find landmines
- NEW ZEALAND: GPS helps demining technology
- Era of hope for resettled families in SRI LANKA
- Nearly half of LEBANON's landmines cleared
- Former child soldier undoes past, one landmine at a time
- A mine-free SE EUROPE: Mission possible
- MOZAMBIQUE: The country that became a minefield
- MOZAMBIQUE: Demining, the Devil is in the Detail
- US donates $2.35 mil for demining activities in LEBANON
- SRI LANKA: UN supports demining process
- OSCE supports setting up demining unit in TAJIKISTAN
- UNHCR demining machines to arrive in SRI LANKA
- The dangers of unexploded landmines in SRI LANKA
October '09
- ANGOLAN minister witnesses launch of demining equipment
- MOZAMBIQUE: Help for landmine victims hard to come by
- SRI LANKA: More IDPs go home (link no longer active)
- Draft on assistance in mine action goes to UN General Assembly
- UN mine clearer dies in accident in CYPRUS
- AFGHANISTAN: Goats provide livelihood for landmine survivors
- SRI LANKA: Government accelerates de-mining in the North
- LAO PDR: UXO risk increases after tropical storm
- MOZAMBIQUE: Demining not a never-ending story
- SUDAN: Al Lafa returnees free from the danger of mines
- FALKLANDS: De-mining receives go-ahead with UK contract
- CHINA introduces new mine-sweeping device
- BELGIAN/RUSSIAN landmines giving way to new farms in MOZAMBIQUE
- US gov't to donate $2mil to demining MOZAMBIQUE
- Rap teaches CAMBODIAN youths dangers of landmines
- PAKISTAN: Red Cross/Red Crescent respond to needs as returns continue
- NIGERIA: 39 years after, civil war explosives found
- GUINEA-BISSAU: Mine-free farms for first time since 1974
- INDIA: Mined lives
- SRI LANKA: Demining in progress in the Rice Bowl
- SUDAN: Refreshing MRE in Southern Kordofan
- ANGOLA: Over 40 mil sq m demined in Benguela Province
- Demining project on the JORDANIAN-SYRIAN border
- ALBANIA free of landmines, UXO
- BOSNIA, CROATIA urged to step up mine clearance (link no longer active)
- Demining Project Office Team arrives in the FALKLANDS
- Rat demining agency up for innovation prize
- TAIWAN: President calls for demining to be completed by 2013
- SRI LANKA receives more foreign aid for landmine clearing operations in the north
- LEBANON: UNIFIL demines land for farmers
- Getting rid of dangerous weapons in NIGERIA
- ANGOLA: Over five million explosive devices removed in 13 years
- NIGERIA: Benue communities seek relocation over explosives
- SUDAN: Landmines threaten election and referendum processes
- IRAQ: Living with the threat of unexploded ordnance and landmines
- BURMA: Landmines halt refugee return
- 30 killed in AFGHANISTAN landmine blast
- Peace Day 2009: Mine action paving the way for peace and development
- SRI LANKA: Resettling 70% of IDPs govt's initial target
- SRI LANKA to resettle the IDPs first in the area west of A-9
- More 'combat enablers' AFGHAN-bound
- Shipping clothing to COLOMBIA'S landmine victims
- AFGHAN man faces danger to protect others
- UK commits to clear mines and rebuild lives in SRI LANKA
- SWISS will lead COLOMBIA int'l demining conference
- UAE demining efforts hailed in South LEBANON
September '09
- More international support for demining (link no longer active)
- SRI LANKA imports five more demining machines to expedite
- Third Continental Conference of African Experts on Landmines held
- Eliminating global arms trade crucial to security, sustainable development
- Remnants of VIETNAM War still scarring lives
- SRI LANKAN success on Omanthai-Welioya road
- SRI LANKA: Forthcoming monsoon could impede demining activities
- SENEGAL: One landmine gone, thousands of hectares gained
- US Pacific Command boosts demining in SRI LANKA
- DR CONGO: Local official hails UN's demining work as 'priceless'
- COLOMBIA's rebels step up a brutal tactic
- Landmine survivors call on governments to live up to their promises
- COLOMBIA wants former rebels to help clear mines
- INDIA: Combing Saranda for mines
- SRI LANKA imports machines to clear mines
- ANGOLA: Demining personnel training a priority (link no longer active)
- ANGOLA: Demining commission works with Parliament (link no longer active)
- CAMBODIAN deminers train, awaiting SUDAN's dry season
- Amputees bear lifelong cost of PAKISTAN'S conflict (link no longer active)
- SRI LANKA: Army Chief seeks international assistance for demining
- ANGOLA: Demining commission to implement statistics projects
- US contributing $6mil toward SRI LANKAN demining
- BELARUS, EU to hold talks on landmine destruction project
- Landmines in COLOMBIA: Cheap and lethal
- ANGOLA: Over 90 km of road cleared of landmines
- THAILAND: Unconventional landmine victims get new limbs
- ANGOLA: INAD destroys over 100 explosive devices
August '09
- AUSTRALIAN support for demining in SRI LANKA
- LEBANESE landmine victims turn to soccer
- Sixty years of the Geneva Conventions
- GAZA: Explosives, mines and white phosphorus clean-up operation
- GEORGIA/SOUTH OSSETIA: Lasting impact of conflict
- New AZERI 'Big Return' program to resettle IDPs (link no longer active)
- TAIWAN sponsors landmine survivor assistance program
- UK Supports mine clearance in SRI LANKA
- CAMBODIA: Gov't blocks meeting with "Miss Landmine" contestants
- Unexploded ordnance a lethal problem in VIETNAM
- 80 more INDIANS fly to SRI LANKA to clear landmines
- VIETNAM still faces landmine blight (link no longer active)
- US signs International Convention on Rights of Disabled
- Picking up the remnants of war in UGANDA - photo essay
- Survivors celebrate as BiH signs Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Study finds leftover bombs killed 10,500 in VIETNAM
- SUDAN: Malakal minefields still a challenge
- AFGHANISTAN: Saving historical heritage from landmines
- CAMBODIAN mine casualties rise in June
- Demining program in AFGHANISTAN
- UK firm wins award for mine-clearance technology
- INDIA aids SRI LANKA in mine clearance, resettlement
- KOSOVO bicycle tour to raise awareness and funds for mine clearance
- Women-only demining teams at work in SOUTH SUDAN
July '09
- Kidnappers free 16 AFGHAN demining workers
- Quick Reaction Force completes UXO clearance mission in TANZANIA
- One ton of UXO destroyed on TAIWAN
- SRI LANKAN gov't committed to resettle refugess in 6 months (already posted something similar) (link no longer active)
- Puntland, SOMALIA: Authorities and stakeholders review progress in implementing Deed of Commitment
- Clearing mines in AFGHANISTAN
- SUDAN: Demining not just a man's job
- SERBIA: River bed and river bank UXO Clearance Project Planned
- Violence delays mine clearing in AFGHANISTAN (link no longer active)
- SARMENIA: A decade's work to clear the minefields
June '09
- Awareness campaign aims to reduce danger from unexploded ordnance in CHAD
- Protection of civilians from explosive weapons
- Appeal for help to clear landmines in IRAQ
- SRI LANKA says demining completed in 90% of the north
- Law ratified on demining of minefields along SYRIAN border
- Before you throw that away...
- SRI LANKAN troops recover over 1.5 million landmines in north
- 52 CAMBODIAN Soldiers Join Demining Operations in Sudan
- SRI LANKA: A-9 highway to remain closed until landmines cleared
- SENEGAL: Fresh violence in Casamance
- Juanes asks Clinton for support for anti-landmine campaign
- TURKEY: Premier says Turkish military can clear minefields
- Unexploded bombs threaten reconstruction of GAZA
- SRI LANKA: Nearly 176,000 Mines Removed
- FLEMISH donate millions to demining in MOZAMBIQUE
- Planned demining of TURKEY/SYRIA border referred to court
- AZERBAIJAN: Nearly 25 Million Square Meters Demined in May
- IRAQ halts clearing landmines even as huge toll keeps rising
- US Wartime Bombs Still Killing in VIETNAM
- CNMI: 1000 lbs of WWII explosives detonated
- TURKEY: Divisive bill to clear mines on SYRIAN border passes
- From the Expert: How to Clear Mines
- IRAQ would need 'an army' to remove all landmines
- TAJIKISATAN seeks demining help from EU
- New anti-mine technology shows promise in ANGOLA
- JAPAN aids demining in SRI LANKA
- TURKEY: NATO demining more economical
- SCOTLAND: Landmine survivor runs marathons
- PAKISTAN: fear amid reports of mine-laying in Mingora
- TURKEY: PM denounces xenophobia over mine clearance
- A special process to resettle SRI LANKA'S IDPs
May '09
- SCOTLAND: Landmine charity founder wins Burns Award
- MOZAMBIQUE: Demining power line costs $1mil
- MAG steps up clearance efforts in SRI LANKA
- AFGHANISTAN: Community-based demining progresses
- ANGOLA asks for help in clearing landmines
- ZIMBABWE: Local company contracted to demine Gonarezhou
- MOZAMBIQUE: demining to begin in Maputo
- ANGOLA: Over 73 areas cleared of landmines
- CAMBODIA: Junkyard approach to demining
- NEPAL: Explosive Reminders of War
- SOUTHERN SUDAN: A garden with a difference
- ANGOLA: National meeting on demining
- ANGOLA: Over one million sq m cleared of landmines
- Demining in eastern SRI LANKA concluding
- US, IRAQI Army detonate weapons cache in Basra
- LAO PDR: Bomb clearance charity is thanked
- Professors, students build artificial legs for amputees in VIETNAM
- Situation of GAZA'S children still 'precarious'
- NEPALESE widow on compensation quest
- SRI LANKAN Supreme Court: Expedite demining for resettlement
- PHILIPPINES: Landmine Ban Draws House Support
- CAMBODIA: Explosive Harvest
- INDIA: Maoist Mine Traps in Saranda
- EU grants US$26m to ANGOLAN demining program
- The Anti-Personnel Mines Project (link no longer active)
April '09
- SRI LANKA: Demining east will end soon
- Giving back in CAMBODIA
- PAKISTANI children mistake bomb for toy, 12 killed
- Bangkok to celebrate Mine Ban Treaty's 10th Anniversary
- Casualties continue in VIETNAM
- UGANDA: Dangers of unexploded ordnance in north
- Army 'Multimode' Raygun to target IEDs, other ordnance
- Child landmine victim speaks out
- NIGERIA clears Biafra war ERW (link no longer active)
- Landmines still scar ANGOLA 7 years after peace
- US to donate $1.5m for munitions clearing in LEBANON
- Orphanage work was a revelation
- VIETNAM: PM ratifies foreign aid-financed projects
- INDIA: Spot weapons, win cash
- Mine-filled IRAQ to accelerate clearance
- CAMBODIA war survivors turn to music (link no longer active)
- TURKISH military disposes of anti-personnel landmines
- Ohio airbase base plans explosives training range
- Demining story wins The Star journalist MPI Award
- Landmines: Kurdistan's hidden enemy
- JAPAN grants $5.6 million to CAMBODIA
- Landmine clearance funding in decline
- UN supports AFGHAN demining efforts
- UN: Children biggest victims of landmines, other ERW
- AUSTRALIAN government gives $2.4 million to IRAQI landmine survivors
- TAJIKISTAN remains largest mines concern
- Red Cross: More work needed on landmine clearance
- Clearing the legacies of war from AFGHANISTAN'S soil
- BURMA urged to stop landmine use
- Push to rid CYPRUS buffer zone of landmines by 2011 (link no longer active)
- GAZA: Access to buffer zone key to agricultural recovery
- Developing AFGHANISTAN into a peaceful and prosperous country
- International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action
- SE ASIA: New mine victims reinforce need for treaty
- LEBANESE uncover weapons in south (link no longer active)
- Mine accident in AFGHANISTAN still remembered by villagers
- JAPAN funds demining efforts in northern SRI LANKA
- INDIA: Local leader barely escapes landmine blast
- Economic crisis slows mine clearance, endangering lives (video)
- 'Lethal Legacy' documents clearance of 57k mines from LEBANON (video)
March '09
- INDIA: Three women injured in landmine blast
- JAPAN gives nearly $8 million boost for demining in Africa
- INDIA: Military denies landmine explosions responsible for forest fires
- SRI LANKA: Most landmines in Jaffna cleared
- Mine victim provides prostheses to other victims
- THAILAND helps to make a mine-free world (link no longer active)
- Sir Bobby Charlton launches drive to find landmine breakthrough
- International Day for Mine Awareness: a mine-free world within reach (video)
- INDIAN Army porter dies in landmine blast
- HRW urges US, Obama administration to ban landmines
- GERMAN ambassador speaks on cooperation with ANGOLA
- JAPAN extends 300 million rupees for assistance in SRI LANKA
- Basra littered with mines, group says (link no longer active)
- BRITISH demining experts to visit Falklands
- Mine victims say they are forgotten
- Four US-led soldiers killed in AFGHANISTAN
- CANADA probes whether blast killed AFGHAN children
- Third child dies after blast in AFGHAN village
- MOZAMBIQUE: Clearance priorities discussed
- ANGOLA: State Dept. issues $5 million for mine removal
- INDIA: 13 police escape landmine blast
- In Harm's Way: Video profiles MAG deminers (video)
February '09
- SLOVENIA to donate EUR819,000 to ITF in 2009
- UNMAO SUDAN winter 2009 newsletter
- ITF celebrates 10th anniversary, devises new plans
- GAMBIA: Seven die in desert after vehicle hits mine
- Profile of TDI, clearance company (link no longer active)
- SODI continues funding clearance in VIETNAM
- YEMEN: Government officials meet to discuss national mine-action plan
- AZERBAIJAN: 685,261 sq. meters cleared in January
- Anti-landmine vehicle saves police from blast
- ANGOLA: Demining ends in area now declared mine-free
- YEMEN, CROATIA sign mine-action agreement
- JAPAN funds demining projects in TIMOR-LESTE
- MOZAMBIQUE given more time for mine clearance
- Students in GEORGIA receive textbooks, MRE
- The forgotten 'victim' of the northern UGANDAN war
- ZAMBIA clears landmines
- SOMALIA blast and aftermath leaves at least 20 dead
- January 2009 mine-action technology newsletter released (PDF)
- GERMANY provides demining supplies, other aid to GEORGIA
- ANGOLA: Military deminers, national demining center receive equipment
- CHINA presents demining equipment to SUDAN
- ANGOLA: Demining officials deactivate explosive devices
- SRI LANKA: US and JAPAN pledge demining funds
- GAZA: Mine-action logisitcs update
- PAKISTAN: Landmine blast wounds 14
- Giant rats sniff out MOZAMBIQUE'S mines
- SRI LANKA: BELGIUM to support demining process
- Demining to begin in north SRI LANKA
- NIGERIA: Government clears mines
- NEPAL: Army completes demining of Siraha forest
- New radio technology improves landmine detection
- ANGOLA: Provincial Governor Reiterates Support to demining teams
January '09
- UXOInfo.com resleases January newsletter (link no longer active)
- New framework for SRI LANKAN demining
- Save the Children helping Gazans return to school despite danger
- Colombia Army finds FARC landmine factory
- French aid mission, deminers head to EGYPT
- INDIA: Six policemen killed in landmine blast
- Mine machine to flail air range
- ANGOLA: Landmine action committee assess activities
- Afghanistan still tops landmine casualty list
- Demining in MOZAMBIQUE to continue until 2014
- UN appeal for funds to clear Afghan landmines
- PAKISTAN: Two children injured in landmine blast
- ANGOLA: Demining institute trains sappers in safe techniques
- Landmine kills two soldiers In PAKISTAN
- KOSOVO: 6 injured in blasts
- VIETNAM: PM endorses $16 mil. project to preserve world heritage site
- U.S. Army destroys last landmine containing nerve agents
- BHUTAN: Communist guerrillas kill four forest guards
- CHINA ends landmine mission
- MAG worker killed by landmine in Halabja
- 13 mines blasted in AZERBAIJAN in 2008
- Landmine clearance work to begin in Falklands after quarter century wait
Cluster Munitions News - archive
December '09
- IRAQ signs cluster munition ban treaty
- BALI conference a key opportunity to ban cluster bombs in ASIA
November '09
- Living without a leg
- New global campaign targets banks funding cluster bomb producers
- LEBANON: Cluster-bomb clearing teams call for cash (link no longer active)
- MALAWI and MACEDONIA (FYR) 22nd and 23rd countries to ratify ban
- Report slams bank links to cluster bomb production
- LEBANON: MAG celebrates lifesaving clearance milestone
- UK and FRANCE: Demilitarization of MLRS Rockets
- New global campaign targets banks funding cluster bomb producers
October '09
- 1mil Danish kroner for clearing cluster bombs
- CMC Newsletter September 2009
- Report slams bank links to cluster bomb production
- UN: States urged to support swift global ban on cluster bombs
- First Committee debates issues of cluster munitions, other arms issues
- LEBANON: Cluster-bomb clearing teams call for cash
- MALAWI and MACEDONIA (FYR) 22nd and 23rd countries to ratify ban
- World Peace March starts off
- LEBANON: Swathe of cleared land returned to owners
- Is a brighter future possible for CAMBODIA?
- ITALIANS clear LEBANESE farms
- LAO PDR: Battle zone's lethal harvest
- World leaders push cluster bomb ban forward in NEW YORK
- CHILE hosts regional meeting on cluster bomb ban treaty
- CMC Newsletter - August 2009
- NGOs ask SLOVAKIA to sign Convention on Cluster Munitions
- LAOTIAN bomb hunters
September '09
- AUSTRALIA: Committee delivers report on cluster munitions convention
- Cluster bomb treaty one step closer to reality
- GHANA to ratify two Conventions on small arms
- Chronology of international movement to ban cluster bombs
- USA: Minnesota Senator to back limits on cluster-bomb use
- DanChurchAid clears cluster bombs in LEBANON
- ERITREA to pay ETHIOPIA millions for war damages
August '09
- Cluster bomb ban on track to become international law soon
- AUSTRALIA looking to toughen cluster bomb laws
- LEBABON official: ISRAEL's maps of cluster bombs useless
- In LEBANON, cluster bomb kills SYRIAN
- Three years on, ISRAELI cluster bombs keep killing and maiming
- GICHD publishes 'A Guide to Cluster Munitions
- LEBANON brothers wounded by cluster bomb
- Handicap International remembers cluster bomb victims
- Photo gallery: Trip to LEBANON (link no longer active)
- New US MCC resources on cluster bombs available
- Photo gallery: Trip to LEBANON
- Video: UXO demolition by Phoenix Clearance Ltd. In LAOS
- NEW ZEALAND: Cluster bomb bill passes first reading
- Cluster bomb bill before NEW ZEALAND parliament
- SAN MARINO and LUXEMBOURG ratify CCM
- Cluster Munitions Coalition June 2009 Newslette
July '09
- BERLIN Conference debates cluster bomb destruction (link no longer active)
- FSD Deployed to Kfar Shouba, a cluster munition affected area in South Lebanon
- SLOVENIA to ratify cluster munitions convention
- BERLIN Conference on the destruction of stockpiled cluster muntions
June '09
- SPAIN and ALBANIA push cluster bomb ban ratifications in double figure
- Millions of Cluster Bombs ready for Destruction GERMANY
- Staying true to the ban on cluster munitions
- NIGERIA signs UN convention on cluster munitions
- JAPAN's upper house approves cluster bomb ban (link no longer active)
- Mines Advisory Group clears cluster bombs in LEBANON
- Cluster munitions ban expected to come into force in 2010
- CMC Newsletter - May 2009
- NIGER 8th country to ratify cluster bomb ban
- 31 treaty signatories still have stocks
- Report: TURKEY among producers of cluster munitions
- Banning cluster munitions: Gov't policy and practice
- Women celebrate international disarmament successes
- Factbox - Cluster bombs: A deadly legacy
- CAMBODIA: Gov't urged on bomb pact
- Report: Countries destroying cluster bomb stockpiles
- Anti-cluster bomb campaign begins in Geneva
- Nations must step up to make new cluster bomb ban work
May '09
- LEBANON: Funding shortfall threatens cluster bomb demining
- Cluster Munition Coalition April Newsletter
- LEBANON bomb victim faces uncertain future
- COLOMBIA destroys last of cluster bombs (link no longer active)
- JAPAN's Lower House approves ratification of CM ban (link no longer active)
- Cluster bomb technology used for seed planting
- NORWEGIAN cluster munitions soon to be history
- UK's commitment cluster ban treaty tested
- MCC postcards advocate cluster-bomb restrictions
- NORWAY destroys cluster weapons
- CMC receives major peace aAward
April '09
- MAG LAO PDR April magazine
- UNESCO Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict
- Global Week of Action to Ban Cluster Bombs, 29 May-4 June
- SRI LANKA: Civilians dying, hospital paralyzed
- Conference on cluster munitions slated for June in GERMANY
- Using postcards to ban cluster bombs
- UN envoy: ISRAEL must hand over maps of cluster bomb locations
- BALKANS: Cluster bombs threaten thousands
- New Report: Use of Cluster Munitions by Russia and Georgia in August 2008
- CMC issues March newsletter
- CMC Newsletter March 2009 PDF
- AUSTRIA Signs Cluster Bomb Ban Convention
- U.S. Cuts Cluster Bomb Supply
- LAOS: JAPAN grants money for UXO clearance
- SERBIA: Ministries clash over CM ban
March '09
- Article features US Army's EOD team
- US lawmakes hail new curbs on cluster bomb sales
- US using robots to clear firing ranges of UXO (video)
- US bans export of most CMs as part of omnibus bill
- JAPAN approves banning production, possession of cluster bombs (link no longer active)
- First stone laid at razed refugee camp in LEBANON
- Report says thousands endangered in SERBIA by CMs
- AFGHAN security forces safely destroy munitions, UXO
- SERBIA: 'Human rights respected,' but UXO problem remains
- VIETNAM opens new bomb disposal unit
- UXO still taking toll in LAOS
- US: Washed up bomb destroyed on Martha's Vineyard
February '09
- CMC issues open letter to government of SRI LANKA
- Construction workers find bombs in Hanoi
- HRW issues updated CM information chart
- US Congress to reconsider CM protection bill
- UXO didn't stop water project in ENGLAND
- Presiding bishop calls for review of US policy on mines, cluster munitions
- Taliban's random IED attacks leave Canadian troops wary (link no longer active)
- Civilian UXO training program celebrates 10th anniversary
- FSD deploying EOD teams to GAZA
- EOD company deploys to AFGHANISTAN
- GAZANS set up exhibit of Israeli weapons
- US Army hosts public demonstration of robotic technologies for UXO removal (link no longer active)
- NORWAY blacklists shares of CM manufacturing firm
- Video: Controlled UXO detonation in IRAQ
- IRAQI Security Forces seize UXO, weapons
- ISRAELI lawyer who approved bombings under attack at university
- WW2 mortars found in US's Manila embassy
January '09
- JORDAN plans Gaza field hospital to help with UXO, other injuries
- UNICEF provides educational supplies and safe spaces for children in Gaza
- ANAMA announces clearance figures from 2008
- Two children die in UXO explosion
- SOUTH KOREA agency plans bunker-busting bomb by 2012
- NY Times correspondent answers questions about CM use, situation in GAZA
- Study finds old ordnance under sea my be toxic (link no longer active)
- CAMBODIA: UXO destoryed
- EOD teams to stay busy across AFGHANISTAN
- Cluster bomb campaigners awarded peace price
- FINLAND reserves right to use cluster munitions
- Cluster Munitions Convention Leaders Voted 2008 "Arms Control Persons of the Year"
