Informes

NEW YORK, 9 October (IRIN) - More than 20 years of war in Afghanistan has left a terrible landmine legacy that poses a risk to civilians fleeing increased hostilities in the country. "People moving out of the major cities into…

(Washington DC, 09-Oct-2001) Four employees of the Afghan Technical Consultants were killed and another 4 injured on 9 October (second night of bombing) when a bomb hit the building they were in, several miles east of Kabul. This is…

At a Headquarters press conference this morning, sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Canada, Stephen Goose, Programme Director of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch, and Jody Williams, a 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, told correspondents that there…

MAG Emergency Appeal to help protect Afghan refugees from the impact of landmines - September 2001 Prior to the current crisis, the impact of landmines was well-documented in Afghanistan. MAG conducted the first national survey of landmine impact in Afghanistan…

Covering April - August 2001 The Landmine Update is the International Campaign to Ban Landmines' quarterly newsletter. This edition is followed by a calendar of upcoming events and list of available new resources. To date, 141 countries…

In the year 2000, an average of about eighty-eight casualties per month were attributed to landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Afghanistan. This represents a sharp decline from recorded casualties in 1999 when an estimated five to ten people…

Revised Draft Report - June 2001 Table of Contents Acronyms Executive Summary 1. Objectives of Analysis 2. Afghanistan - Society and Economy 3. The History of Mines in Afghanistan 4. The Mine Action Programme for…

Covering December - March 2001 The Landmine Update is the International Campaign to Ban Landmines' quarterly newsletter. Note that the web edition also has list of available new resources at the ICBL Resource Center. To date, 139…

September 2000 Introduction 1.DFID 's Humanitarian Mines Action Strategy , approved in late 1997 and implemented over three years to March 2001,seeks to enhance UK assistance for reducing the social and economic impact of landmines and other unexploded ordnance on developing…

(Washington, September 7, 2000) More than 22 million antipersonnel mines have been destroyed from the arsenals of at least fifty nations, and the number of new landmine victims is dropping sharply in heavily mined countries like Cambodia, Afghanistan, Bosnia-Hercegovina and…