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Humanitarian Mine Action
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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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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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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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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