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These websites provide general and comprehensive information about mine action and landmines.

• E-mine
  E-mine collects information about mine action programs, issues, practices, and technology to support the planning and coordination of mine action efforts. The site is comprehensive and easily navigable, making it a great place to start.


• Howstuffworks: How Landmines Work
  The article is great if you are just starting to work in mine action. It provides an introduction to mine action as well as very general information about how mines are built, laid and cleared.


• International Campaign to Ban Landmines
  ICBL seeks to eradicate antipersonnel landmines by promoting the Mine Ban Treaty. Their website offers users an introduction into the landmine problem and solution. ICBL also publishes the yearly Landmine Monitor Report.

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These websites provide specific information related to many areas of mine action.

• AlertNet
  AlertNet is a humanitarian news network run by the Reuters Foundation. their landmine section offers up-to-date articles about landmine use and mine action.


• Department of State's Consular Information Sheets
  This site contains information about traveling in specific countries. Includes travel warnings.


• Geneva International Centre for humanitarian Demining
  GICHD supports the international community in lowering the impact of landmines and other UXO. The Centre conducts research, provides assistance and supports the Mine Ban Treaty.


• International Mine Action Standards
  This website contains the International Mine Action Standards used by all UN mine action operations.


• Mine Ban Treaty
  This section of the UN's website contains the text of the Mine Ban Treaty.


• Political Minefields NEW
  This blog disseminates research on the politics of mine action.


• ReliefWeb
  ReliefWeb pools together timely information about humanitarian efforts around the world. Users can browse for topics or search the site's database.


• State Department Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement
  This section of the the State Department's website covers U.S. policy on weapons of war including landmines.


• Survey Action Center
  The Survey Action Center coordinates Land Impact Surveys for the UN. These surveys are used to assess and implement demining efforts around the world. The SAC website includes information about completed and ongoing surveys.


• United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
  UNIDIR researches disarmament and security issues. Their landmines publications and activities page offers a wide variety of resources related to landmines and mine action.


• UXOInfo.com
  This site provides extensive information about UXO including products, technology and contractors.


• The CIA World Factbook
  The CIA World Factbook offers concise, general country profiles. Information is current and easily accessible.


• War Child International - Stop Landmines
  The subsection of War Child International's site describes the effects of landmines on children.

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Mine detection technology is constantly researched to improve safety and efficiency. These sites cover some of the most promising innovations.

• APOPO
  This organization trains rats to aid in mine detection. Their site details their training methods as well as some of their research.


• Canadian Centre for Mine Action Technologies
  CCMAT works to develop effective mine action technology for humanitarian demining. Their site provides information about their R&D programs and testing.


• Humanitarian Demining
  Humanitarian Demining provides information about the threats of landmines as well as the current and developing technologies used to clear them.


• International Test and Evaluation Program for Humanitarian Demining
  ITEP seeks to develop standards and coordinate and perform tests of materials and methods for humanitarian demining. Their site covers their current news and archives past reports and standards.


• The Marshall Legacy Institute
  The Marshall Legacy Institute supports the training of mine detection dogs.

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Taking care of survivors is an important aspect of mine action. These organizations offer survivor assitance, education and training.

• Handicap International
  Handicap International supports landmine survivors and conducts mine risk education and humanitarian demining programs. HI is a member of ICBL.


• Landmine Survivors Network
  The Landmine Survivors Network connects survivors of landmines with the healthcare they need to recover and reintegrate into their community.


• The Cambodia Trust
  The Cambodia Trust helps train prosthetist-orthotists and physiotherapists to build rehabilitation services for disabled people in third world countries. The Cambodia Trust works with landmine survivors as well as people affected by polio, cerebral palsy and leprosy.

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These sites offer photo galleries of mines, ordinance and landmine survivors.

• Mine Action Canada Photo Gallery
  Mine Action Canada's photo gallery is searchable and offers several categories to choose from.


• The Legacy of the Perfect Soldier
  Giovanni Diffienti puts a human face to mine action by combining photos with personal stories in his website "The Legacy of the Perfect Soldier."


• UXOInfo.com
  This subsection of UXOInfo.com provides an extensive catalogue of images of landmines and other ordinance


• War Child International - Stop Landmines
  This subsection of war Child's site contains images and descriptions of common landmines.

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These websites are a cross section of organizations active in the mine action community.

• Adopt-A-Minefield
  Adopt-a-Minefield is a program under the United Nations Development Programme to raise money for mine clearance and survivor assistance. Contributors can adopt entire minefields or donate smaller amounts to be pooled with other donations.


• European Human Rights Centre (EHRC)
  Human Rights First is a non-profit, nonpartisan international human rights organization based in Strasbourg, France dedicated to protecting people at risk due to social, economic, or political reasons.


• International Committee of the Red Cross
  The ICRC is an organization that works for humanitarian protection and assistance for victims of war and armed violence. Their section about landmines includes region information, articles, photos and personal stories.


• Mines Advisory Group (MAG)
  MAG seeks to help communities recover from conflicts. Their website contains current news, reports and profiles as well as photo galleries and videos.


• Norwegian Peoples Aid
  One of the largest Norwegian NGO's, the Norwegian Peoples Aid holds the values of solidarity, human dignity, freedom and equality. Their site offers several articles about mine action.


• Organization of the American States
  The Organization of the American States serves as a forum for the dialogue and action for the nations of the Western Hemisphere. They are involved in many humanitarian endeavors including mine action. The OAS maintains a register of stockpiled and removed antipersonnel landmines and tracks plans for the future clearance.


• Roots of Peace
  Roots of Peace's mission is to turn "Mines into Vines." They are demining fields in Angola, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Croatia and Iraq. After removing the mines, Roots of Peace helps local farmers and landmine survivors plant and cultivate the reclaimed land.


• Small Arms Survey
  The Small Arms Survey serves as the principal international source of public information on all aspects of small arms and as a resource for governments, policy-makers, researchers, and activists..


• UNICEF
  UNICEF focuses on child survival and development, education and gender equality, HIV/AIDS and children, and child protection around the world. Their mine action activities promote mine risk education, advocate for the removal of mines, and support children and landmine survivors.

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