Addressing discrimination and promoting gender equality and inclusion has long been a priority of the APMBC. In the Oslo Action Plan (OAP), States Parties identified gender and diversity mainstreaming as a key best practice for Convention implementation. They committed to several practical steps to integrate gender perspectives and the diverse needs and experiences of people in affected communities in mine action programming. These included concrete actions related to risk education, victim assistance, sharing of data disaggregated by gender and age in Article 7 reporting, as well as the establishment of centralized databases that disaggregate data on people killed or injured, by gender, age, and disability.
Read more…
Source: GICHD
Sign up for Counter-IED Report Newsletter
Related:
- 3 children injured by explosive device in Yemeni port city
November 25, 2020
Three Yemeni children were injured by a blast of an explosive device in the country’s Red Sea port city of Hodeidah on Wednesday, a military official told Xinhua. “An improvised explosive device (IED) previously laid by the Houthi rebels exploded in Al Khawkhah district of Hodeidah, leaving three children critically injured,” the local military source said ...
- Philippines raises concern over terrorists’ use of landmines
November 24, 2020
The Philippines called for the strengthening of a normative framework under the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC) to address the continued use of mines by armed non-state actors. Signed in 1997, the APMBC, otherwise known as the Mine Ban Treaty, prohibits the use of landmines due to their destructive and indiscriminate effects on civilians and communities. ...
- Russian peacekeeper wounded, Azeri serviceman killed in landmine blast in Nagorno-Karabakh
November 23, 2020
An officer of the Russian peacekeeping contingent was wounded in a mine explosion in Nagorno-Karabakh during the search for those killed in the armed conflict, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Monday. Also, an Azerbaijani officer was killed and four representatives of the Emergencies Ministry of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic were wounded in the mine explosion, the ...
- UN working on deploying mine clearance mission to Nagorno-Karabakh
November 23, 2020
The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) is working on emergency deployment in Nagorno-Karabakh and plans to launch a mission to assess the needs in early December, a spokesperson for UN Peacekeeping said on Monday. “The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) is working on an emergency deployment within the context of UN assistance requested by ...
- United States provides additional US$ 3 million for humanitarian demining in Zimbabwe
November 18, 2020
The United States government is pleased to announce an additional USD $3 million for humanitarian demining projects in Zimbabwe. Since 1998, the United States has invested more than $23.9 million in Zimbabwe to protect people from landmines and promote economic opportunities through safe access to land. The United States supports the Government of Zimbabwe’s goal ...
- UN: Landmine toll still high amid concerns over COVID-19 impact on clearance efforts
November 12, 2020
According to the Landmine Monitor 2020, more than 80 per cent of the world – 164 countries – have adopted the Mine Ban Treaty 23 years after it was drafted and signed, and most of the 33 countries that are not bound by it, comply nonetheless. Despite this achievement, long-running conflicts continue to cause mainly civilian ...
- Falkland Islands finally cleared of landmines after 1982 war
November 10, 2020
Almost 40 years after the Falklands War ended, the islands have been cleared of the deadly minefields laid during the conflict. The legacy of the 1982 war with the occupying Argentine forces had meant large areas of the islands had been off-limits. Read more… Source: MSN News Related story: Herefordshire company’s crucial role in clearing the Falkland Islands of ...
- Clearing the Mines 2020
November 2, 2020
Report for the Eighteenth Meeting of States Parties to the 1997 Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention The Clearing the Mines 2020 report was prepared by Mine Action Review for the Eighteenth Meeting of States Parties to the 1997 Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (Geneva, 16–20 November 2020). It contains: Key Findings An Overview of global anti-personnel mine contamination and the progress ...
- Ukraine: 327 explosives disposed of in Donbas over past week
November 2, 2020
Over the past week, the units of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine inspected almost 30 hectares of territory, seized and disposed of 327 explosives in the Joint Forces Operation area in Donbas. “During the week, October 24-30, the personnel and equipment of the State Emergency Service units as part of the Joint Forces were involved ...
- Sri Lanka: Japan extends Rs. 115 m in support of humanitarian demining activities in north
October 30, 2020
The Government of Japan has provided a total sum of $ 636,363 (approx. Rs. 115 million) to the HALO Trust for humanitarian demining activities in northern Sri Lanka. The grant contract was signed on 29 October between Japanese Ambassador Sugi-yama Akira and HALO Trust Program Manager Belinda Vause. Due to the prevailing COVID-19 situation, the contract ...
- Former Taliban fighters are hired to clear minefields in Afghanistan
October 25, 2020
Hundreds of former Taliban fighters are being recruited by a British charity to clear landmines in Afghanistan. Major General James Cowan, ex-commander of British troops in Helmand province, said the former insurgents were swapping AK47s for mine-detectors to earn £230 a month. He said that although he had lost 64 of his soldiers to the Taliban, he ...
- Angola’s bombs still maiming people years after war ended
October 22, 2020
Nearly 20 years since the civil war ended in Angola, landmines laid in the ground before the country gained independence in 1975 continue to maim civilians across the country. The civil war, that left at least half a million people dead and some four million civilians displaced in the oil-rich nation, officially ended in 2002. The conflict ...
- Glowing engineered bacteria point out explosive landmines
October 20, 2020
New molecularly engineered E. coli bacteria emit a bioluminescence visible to the naked eye, enabling detection of landmines from afar. Researchers who discovered how to utilize fluorescent E. coli bacteria to locate landmines have recently further mutated them so that they are now both more sensitive and emit a glow visible to the naked eye, eliminating ...
- UNMAS: Unexploded bombs to litter Iraq’s Mosul for more than a decade
October 14, 2020
The Iraqi city of Mosul will remain strewn with unexploded bombs for a decade, endangering a million or more civilians who want to return home following the end of three years of Daesh occupation, a U.N. demining expert said on Wednesday. Pehr Lodhammar, a senior program manager at the U.N. Mine Action Service (UNMAS) said the ...
- Phillipines: 5 landmines buried in village trail recovered
October 5, 2020
Five improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted by the New People’s Army were recovered by soldiers of the 701st Infantry Brigade in Sitio Cambaugo, Barangay Rajah Cabungsuan, Municipality of Lingig, Surigao del Sur. Maj. Alex Alod, the civil-military operations officer of the 701st Infantry Brigade, said the IEDs weighed one kilo each and were reported by the ...
- A life-saving ‘game’: Bosnia trains world’s mine-detecting dogs
September 26, 2020
With her nose in the grass of a Bosnian field, Orna sniffs furiously until she finds her target. She then sits and wags her tail in excitement for the red rubber toy that is her reward. The exercise is only a game for the two-year-old dog, but the mine-detection skill is saving lives in Bosnia ...
- Magawa the mine-detecting rat wins PDSA Gold Medal
September 25, 2020
An African giant pouched rat has been awarded a prestigious gold medal for his work detecting land mines. Magawa has sniffed out 39 landmines and 28 unexploded munitions in his career. The UK veterinary charity PDSA has presented him with its Gold Medal for “life-saving devotion to duty, in the location and clearance of deadly landmines in ...
- UK: Neo-Nazi farmer, 58, kept grenades, mines and explosives in his country home
September 16, 2020
A suspected neo-Nazi kept an arsenal of explosives at his country home and stored deadly cyanide poison next to the ginger beer and salad cream in his fridge, a court heard. Counter-terrorism police found large stocks of poisons along with a cache of grenades, mines and explosives after raiding the rural home of Russell Wadge, 58, ...
- Ambulance hits landmine in southern Mali, killing six
September 12, 2020
Six civilians, including a pregnant woman, were killed in southern Mali when the ambulance they were travelling in struck a landmine, the health ministry said on Saturday. It was not clear who was responsible for laying the mine, but the incident on Friday represented a first for the southern Sikasso region, said Mama Coumare, the ministry’s ...
- Vietnam: International donors assist Quang Tri’s bomb, mine clearance efforts
September 6, 2020
The central province of Quang Tri has to date received over 100 million USD from international donors to help its post-war bomb and mine clearance efforts. Among over 100 million USD sent to the locality since 1996, around 45 million USD has been contributed by the US Government through international organisations and non-governmental organisations. As of September ...
- Australia allocates AUS$ 800,000 for landmine clearance in Sri Lanka
August 26, 2020
The new commitment will go to MAG International, an organisation working to destroy landmines and help people rebuild their lives after conflict. According to MAG, Australia’s funds will transform an additional 190,000 square meters of contaminated ground into a sustainable, productive and safe source for almost 8,000 people. Australian Deputy High Commissioner Victoria Coakley said ...
- Germany establishes 0.5 million euro demining project in Tripoli
August 20, 2020
The German government has established a demining project worth 0.5 million euro, aimed at clearing the landmines, planted by Haftar’s militias in Tripoli. The project was inaugurated by German Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, during his recent visit to the capital Tripoli, according to the German Ambassador to Libya, Oliver Owcza. “The Humanitarian Demining will address one of ...