Informes

Kabul, 20 June 2007. On 21st June, 2007 the Mine Action Programme for Afghanistan (MAPA) will release 70,000 square meters of cleared residential area to 1,000 families on Kabul TV Hill. This area is part of vast impacted area…

Kabul, 18 June, 2007 On Wednesday 13 June in Kandahar, 20-armed perpetrators attacked a team of 60 deminers. The deminers' compound was broken in when after their daily work in minefields, the deminers returned from the evening prayers. All staff…

Kabul: June 11th, 2007. On June 9th, the United Nations Mine Action Center (UNMACA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and Ministry of Education (MoEd). To ensure that Afghanistan fulfils its obligation of the Ottawa…

British Forces based in Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, deployed as part of NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), have launched a programme to raise awareness of the dangers posed by landmines. Having cleared Taliban forces from much of Helmand Province, British…

Kabul, 31 May 2007 - H.E. Mr. Mohammad Housain Anwary, the Governor of the province of Herat, has donated land to 87 deminers who were the victims of mine accidents. Governor Anwary, who signed the official documents yesterday, said…

The United States has launched another effort to strengthen peace and post-conflict recovery. The Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs has awarded a total of more than $2.2 million…

Kabul, 28 May 2007 - H.E. Mr. Rahmatullah Rahmat, the Governor of the province of Paktia, has donated land to 26 deminers who were the victims of mine accidents. Governor Rahmat, who signed the official documents on 16 May,…

Author(s): Sylvie Brigot <brigot@icbl.org> . On 26 and 27 March 2007, the ICBL participated in the " Mine action as a confidence building measure" workshop, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The workshop gathered together representatives of Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Russia, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan,…

QUETTA, 19 February 2007 (IRIN) - Anti-landmine activists are concerned that a proposal, made in December by the Pakistani government, to mine its western border with Afghanistan will increase the landmine casualties and have called on the government to…

11 January 2007 H.E. General Pervez Musharraf President, Islamic Republic of Pakistan President's Secretariat Islamabad, PAKISTAN Your Excellency, I am writing to you on behalf of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, a worldwide network of organizations working for the eradication of the…