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Cyprus Ambassador and ITF representative visit DCA Lebanon Programme.
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The US Special Envoy for Sudan, General Scott Gration, visited DanChurchAid Mine Action programme in Sudan on February 19th. He emphasised the need for clearing cluster munitions and mines in South Kordofan.
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DanChurchAid cooperates with private companies on developing new and better products to help the fight against poverty.
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In the village of Mitondo in Congo 27 anti personnel mines were found and destroyed by DanChurchAid. Recently the fine results were celebrated in a handover ceremony.
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It has been busy times for the mine action programme in Albania with perfect weather for demining and evacuation exercise.
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Since January 23rd, 2006, DCA’s HMA Programme in Angola has been helping to demine a vast area just outside the city of Luena known as Alto Campo.
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Southern Lebanon was the epicenter of Israel’s massive bombardment in the final days of the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah forces. As a result large areas were contaminated with unexploded cluster munitions threatening to wound or kill those who disturbed them.
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A member of DanChurchAid’s mine clearing staff in Angola, Antonio Maliti was working in a minefield in the village Chicololo in the eastern part of Angola, when an unintended explosion caused Antonio to loose all fingers on his right hand.
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The sound of the explosion reminded Kalemie’s inhabitants of the horrible periods of war the town has gone through. But this time, the explosion took place under the full control of DanChurchAid’s humanitarian mine action team operating in the Eastern DR Congo.
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By the end of this year, the land mine and cluster munition clearance programme in Albania will be completed with all known contaminated areas cleared of mines and cluster munitions.
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DanChurchAid's HMA staff in Albania have conducted a Post-Clearance Impact Assessment to determine the effect clearance has had on the local population. The Albanian staff returned to a site, where 53 unexploded cluster munitions were removed, to interview beneficiaries and discovered that, one year after the clearance, the community is using the area as a cornfield, pasture, and football pitch, and cross it daily to access nearby water.
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In January and February 2008, the Small Arms Survey conducted a national survey of armed violence in Burundi. The final report shows that gun crime, banditry and violent disputes continue to plague the population and act as a brake to socio-economic recovery from a 10 year long civil war.
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DCA HMA started in November 2006 to address the threat from cluster munitions of the recent war July-August 2006 between Israel and Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon through the implementation of a BAC project.
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Security situation:The situation in North Kivu is relatively calm at the moment.
However, clashes between armed groups are being reported daily in both Masisi and Rutshuru territories. Read more...
However, clashes between armed groups are being reported daily in both Masisi and Rutshuru territories. Read more...
On Wednesday the 3rd of December,2008 in Oslo, about half of the world’s countries, including Denmark, will sign the international Convention on Cluster Munitions.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu nominates DanChurchAid for the Hilton Humanitarian Prize. The nomination is backed by the 10 bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark and former Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Uffe Elleman-Jensen
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DanChurchAid’s (DCA) Humanitarian Mine Action programme is closing its mine clearance activities in Burundi after almost four years. DCA has finalised all tasks that has been entrusted to the programme by the Burundian government, except from one area, which continues to be inaccessible due to security reasons. The area in question is a strong hold of one of the rebel groups still active in Burundi.
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The past is scary, but the upcoming elections in Angola on September 5th has every possibility to turn a new page in the country’s history
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Roskilde Festival could not exist without the help of its many volunteers. Around 23.000 out of Roskildes maximum of 105.000 guests are volunteering as security, chefs, parking guards, sanitation workers and last but not least; refund collectors. While the volunteer refund collectors of DanChurchAid are an equal part of this essential festival element, the work they do and the information they share will travel far beyond the borders of Denmark – and Europe.
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A video on deployment in Congo
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Mine clearance is thorough and meticulous work and in DR Congo highly influenced by weather and vegetation. This video shows a DanChurchAid deminer in action.
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On May 30 in Dublin, cluster bomb survivors and campaigners welcomed the formal adoption of the Cluster Munitions Convention by over 100 countries. This historic treaty bans the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of all existing and future cluster bombs. To keep pressure on governments and to ensure that the treaty enters into force, campaigners have launched the People’s Treaty. Sign up now.
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Since January 2006 the Albanian DCA HMA programme has been cooperating with the Danish Demining and EOD Centre (DANDEC), on Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and development of key operational staff in Albania.
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On Saturday the 15th of March 2008, a large explosion happened on the outskirts of the Albanian capital, Tirana.
A civilian company was working with dismantling of several tons of old ammunition – a remnant for the communist era in Albania, and by mistake set of a large explosion.
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A civilian company was working with dismantling of several tons of old ammunition – a remnant for the communist era in Albania, and by mistake set of a large explosion.
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During the Kosovo conflict in 1998/1999, landmines were used extensively, and border areas of Albania as a result became heavily contaminated as a “spill over” effect. While Kosovo received vast international assistance, Albania was almost completely ignored. DanChurchAid's (DCA) operations in Albania started in 2002 as a logical continuation of the DCA Kosovo demining operations (1999-2001). Demining in Albania will continue until the beginning of 2010 under supervision of an international DCA Programme Manager.
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The village of Kamumba was once a prosperous fishing community. But during the five year long war it was turned in to a military camp. Though the war is over, the mines remain, preventing the villagers from returning.
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DCA's Humanitarian Mine Action programme concentrates on clearing agricultural land of mines, in order to link mine clearance with food security for the population in affected areas.
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Since mine threats as well as HIV/AIDS prevalence are high in DR Congo, DCA has developed a new approach combining both MRE and HIV/AIDS education programmes. Detailed impact surveys of mine-affected areas are also being carried out, assessing the threats posed and their social and economic repercussions.
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Line Brylle has just returned home after working with a Humanitarian Mine Action Programme for two years in one of the most war torn countries in the world.
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The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Danida) has granted 24 million DKK for DanChurchAid’s HMA programmes in Africa and Asia.
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Three years ago a truck overturned in Angola claiming nine lives - the most tragic accident in the historiy of DanChurchAid
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DanChurchAid (DCA) Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA) program in DR Congo has signed a one year contract with the AECI, Spanish Agency for International Cooperation under the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for an amount of 554.713 Euros to finance Mine Action activities in Eastern Congo.
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Finnish report from DanChurchAid’s Humanitarian Mine Action project in Eastern Angola
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Kamel Mohammed was pruning lemon trees last winter when his red electric saw detonated an unexploded cluster bomb, blasting shrapnel all over his body. After an operation to remove the metal shards from his chest, Mohammed, a 44-year-old father from the nearby Palestinian refugee camp of Rashidieh in south Lebanon, went straight back to work cultivating fields and chopping wood for coal.
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Which product has NOT been recalled from the market because it can be fatal to children?
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Perparim started to work with humanitarian demining in 2001 as Team Leader, and has been working for DanChurchAid since the spring of 2005. At present time Perparim is working as one of the two National Supervisors in charge of the daily demining activities, in addition he is trained as EOD operator with the responsibility of destroying unexploded bombs along the Albanian/Kosovo border.
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Interview with Peter Ramazani, a Congolese Chief of Operations in training within DanChurchAid's DR Congo Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA) Programme.
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"Mine action is a male dominated sector, but it doesn't have to be," declares Christina Bennike, the dynamic head of Danish charity DanChurchAid (DCA) in south Lebanon. "I really felt it would be important to address this from the beginning, then it would be natural instead of something different or unique."
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Eva Veble, Head of Humanitarian Mine Action, is in Peru, Lima, to a conference about cluster munitions. Read her reflections from the cluster munition conference.
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Eva Veble, Head of Humanitarian Mine Action, is in Peru, Lima, to a conference about cluster munitions. Read her reflections from the cluster munition conference.
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Life is slowly returning after the traumatic 34-day Israeli-Hezbollah conflict last summer that left Lebanese villages bombed, roads destroyed and thousands injured and dead. DanChurchAid is currently clearing mines and unexploded ammunition in Lebanon and is right now engaged in four mine risk education events in Southern Lebanon.
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46 countries have now committed themselves to a process that should lead to a convention banning cluster munitions in 2008. "This is a great step forward to prevent new victims and justice for the ones that have already fallen victims to cluster munitions,” says Henrik Stubkjær, General Secretary in DanChurchAid.
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"Tomorrow will hopefully be the day when the governments officially agree to continue the Oslo process on banning cluster munitions. To continue the process that will sooner, rather than later prohibit cluster bomblets. Hopefully the deadline will be clearly set and be 2008," reports Eva Veble, Head of Humanitarian Mine Action in DanChurchAid from the Oslo conference on cluster munitions.
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Eva Veble, Head of Humanitarian Mine Action in DanChurchAid reports from the Oslo conference on cluster munitions.
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Blog from Oslo conference on cluster munitions: "Even though I'm more of an Adidas person myself, the Nike slogan is the one ringing in my head all day during the Civil Society Forum on Banning Cluster Munitions held in the Oslo Nobel Peace Institue," Eva Veble, Head of Humanitarian Mine Action in DanChurchAid reports from the conference.
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Press release: Nordic church related agencies call for a freeze and a new international treaty prohibiting cluster munitions.
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One hundred days after the cease-fire that ended the battle between Israel and Hezbollah, many Lebanese villages are still without running water.
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DanChurchAid’s humanitarian mine action programme in eastern DR Congo has recently created a new team for Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) tasks. During the first week's work in Uvira the team destroyed 108 UXOs - and that is only the beginning.
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Danchurchaid urgently requests the Danish government to support the Norwegian initiative on Cluster Munitions and to participate in a conference that Norway is hosting at the beginning of 2007.
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Momentum is growing in Geneva for new negotiations towards a new international law on cluster munitions. Support for this new cluster munition treaty has jumped from 6 to 18 states in the first week of the Conventional Weapons Review Conference and comes as a new accord will enter into force on Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) that does not sufficiently address the problem of cluster munitions.
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Scan the faces of children gathered for a break outside Souane Elementary School and you see that life is slowly returning after the traumatic 34-day Israeli-Hezbollah conflict that left Lebanese villages bombed, roads destroyed and thousands injured and dead. DanChurchAid is currently clearing mines and unexploded ammunition in Lebanon.
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With the explosion of the last landmine in the remote mountainous area in north eastern Albania, DanChurchAid marked the exit of Albania with a blast after working with humanitarian mine action in the country since 2002.
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The hidden fallout from conflict in Lebanon: For two hours, Mahmoud Yacoub sat disoriented in a field, waiting for help to come. The 36-year-old farmer had taken his herd of goats out at about 4 o’clock in the afternoon when he stepped on something that exploded. Bleeding and in pain, he made his way to a small shrub, where he sat and waited for rescue.
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Development of the mine clearance system WADS enters a new and exciting phase. During the past twelve months, the big mine clearance system WADS has been tested in very difficult areas in eastern Angola. When the system is fully developed, the WADS should be able to clear roads much faster than ever before and thus open areas for development and traffic. And the need is huge in the country stricken by civil war for decades.
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After many months of hard work, the new DanChurchAid demining team in Angola is now ready to do their first official hand-over of a piece of land. With detectors, small shovels, brushes, and hands, the 40 deminers have inch by inch gone through every spot of the more than 3.3 hectare large area.
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Pink, aka 27-year-old Alecia Moore, joins the fight against cluster bombs. Pink, who is known for her strong opinions, gave a concert on 24 October in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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A series of fires have since mid June until the end of September ravaged and destroyed an estimated 1.500 houses in 8 villages in and around Salamabila in Southeastern Maniema Province in the eastern DR Congo.
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In September, DanChurchAid DR Congo programme based in Kalemie, Katanga Province, received an important visit by Miss Monika Tortschanoff, Human Rights and Civil Society representative of the European Commission Delegation in DR Congo and Mr Harouna Ouedraogo, Programme Manager for United Nations Mine Action Coordination Center (UNMACC) in DR Congo.
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In a field, 5 km outside of Kalemie in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, 14 men and 13 women have been training for more than three weeks. Ten of these trainees will form part of two new teams that are to work with humanitarian mine clearance under the "Humanitarian Mine Action Program", funded by Europeaid with 940 000 Euros and running from the April 1, 2006, until March 31, 2008.
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DanChurchAid is very concerned about the confirmed use of cluster munitions in the populated areas of Lebanon by Israel.
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It is a happy day for the two DanChurchAid deminers Mayumbu Kamenga aged 42 and Mbungu Vangu aged 38. They have just been demobilised from the national Congolese army, in which they both served almost half of their lives, 23 years and 18 years respectively.
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More than 5 tons of explosive ordnance destroyed by DanChurchAid in Kalemie, Tanganyika district, DR Congo.
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HMA Coordinator Steven Olejas's statement to the Resource Mobilisation Contact Group as presented at Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, 9 May 2005 in Geneva.
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DanChurchAid Humanitarian Mine Action program in DR Congo has signed a two-year contract with Delegation of the European Commission in Kinshasa, starting 1 April 2006, for an amount of 940 000 Euros to finance Mine Action activities in Eastern Congo. In addition to this amount DCA will contribute 114.239 Euro of it own funds to the same project.
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”Denmark against Landmines” marked the international mine clearance day: A famous Danish artist has performed lithography especially for the event, and Her Highness Princess Alexandra unveiled this in the Alexander Hall at Christiansborg.
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DanChurchAid introduces new mine clearance method which is cheaper and more effective than previous methods.
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On 6 October 2005, the system for road verification went operational and the Wide Area Detection System (WADS) survey crew started surveying the Luena–Lucusse road in Angola.
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In April 2002, peace finally came to Angola after almost 30 years of civil war. The civil war cost the lives of almost one million people, drove four million to flee internally and sent an additional 465,000 fleeing to neighbouring countries.
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