Informes

Introduction Member States support UNMAS mandate The Secretary-General designated UNMAS as the focal point for mine action within the UN system in 1997, in the context of UN reform. The General Assembly welcomed this decision and has reiterated its support for…

Foreword This ninth edition of the Portfolio of Mine Action Projects embodies the concrete steps being taken to eliminate the threat of landmines and explosive remnants of war and to meet pertinent treaty obligations. It also reflects the mine-action community's…

GA/SPD/329 Sixtieth General Assembly Fourth Committee 18th Meeting (AM) Special Political Committee Completes Debate on Removal Action; Delegates Stress Continuing Problems after Long-Ago Conflicts The presence of landmines was an obstacle to economic development, humanitarian aid operations and refugee return, said the representative…

Every year, tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, are killed or injured by landmines and other explosive remnants of war.Those that survive are often disabled for life, adding to the many hundreds of thousands of mine survivors around…

Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC May 10, 2005 The Survey Action Center, a non-governmental organization, today unveiled a first-of-its kind web-based research tool, the "LIS Explorer," funded by a $25,000 grant from the U.S. Department of State's Office of Weapons Removal…

Each day in Afghanistan, Dan Kelly surveys the Afghan terrain in search of an invisible enemy: millions of buried landmines. Each one that he finds and disarms is helping to save lives and restore the livelihoods of thousands of…

Landmine removal and victim assistance programmes around the world have received only $77 million of the $371 million they will need this year, with Afghanistan likely to sustain the largest single shortfall of $49 million, the United Nations Mine…

Calling Landmines a "Deadly Attraction" for Children, UNICEF says Countries That Care About Children Must Stop Producing Landmines NAIROBI/NEW YORK/GENEVA, 2 December 2004 -- Millions of antipersonnel landmines and other explosive remnants of war across the globe pose a vicious threat…

NAIROBI, Dec 2, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Countries contaminated by landmines will never develop without the removal of these deadly weapons, a high-ranking UN Development Program (UNDP) official said Thursday on the sidelines of a landmine conference in Kenyan…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] KABUL, 22 November (IRIN) - Despite having one of the highest numbers of landmine victims in the world, Afghanistan has been slow to reintegrate its disabled war victims.…