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Humanitarian Mine Action
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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