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The United States Embassy in Cameroon announces the completion of an IED Threats and Awareness course on November 4-8, 2024, in Yaoundé. This training is a collaborative effort between the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Read More …
Following a successful side event organised by France on 14th October 2024, held alongside the First Committee of the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the responses to the threats posed by Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), Sebastian Read More …
The Government of the United Kingdom, UK, has provided training support for 75 officers of the Nigerian Police Force, NPF, and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC. The Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE) training, which took place in Read More …
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 Read More …
Thanks to the support from the Government of Canada, the Association of Sappers of Ukraine (ASU) has launched a project to provide mine safety training to the general population. In Ukraine, particularly in the de-occupied regions, explosive objects still pose Read More …
The Executive Center for Mine Action renewed its warning to citizens in Hodeida governorate and the rest of the governorates, against approaching mines, cluster bombs, and remnants of aggression that were swept away by the floods to separate areas. The Read More …
A study conducted by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Rating Group on explosive ordnance risk awareness and safe behaviour practices among Ukrainian parents and children aged 10 to 17 has revealed that boys aged 14 to 17 Read More …
The Libyan Mine Action Center announced plans 9 May to develop a country-wide mine action strategy in collaboration with the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining and the United Nations Support Mission in Libya’s Mine Action Section. According to Fatma Read More …
The head of UN peacekeeping and demining reiterated calls on Monday for a ceasefire in Gaza as a first step to returning the war-ravaged enclave to some normality, while mine clearance experts warned that the Strip is now at its Read More …
Initially, UNMAS Iraq was supporting stabilization and the restoration of basic infrastructure to enable safe and dignified returns of IDPs to the areas liberated from ISIL. In doing this UNMAS Iraq surveyed 30,567,078 sqm and rendered safe more than 673,041 Read More …