Mine action is a combination of humanitarian aid and development studies that aims to remove landmines and reduce the social, economic and environmental...

The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) is a service located within the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations that specializes in...

A land mine, or landmine, is an explosive weapon concealed under or camouflaged on the ground, and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets, ranging...

in mine action is the application of gender mainstreaming to mine action. It is increasingly being adopted by international and state mine action organizations...

component of mine action, a broad effort to reduce the social, economic and environmental damage of mines. The other "pillars" of mine action are risk education...

The International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action was designed in 2005 by the United Nations General Assembly to raise awareness and...

Claymore mine is a directional anti-personnel mine developed for the United States Armed Forces. Its inventor, Norman MacLeod, named the mine after a large...

Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) is a mine action agency and executive body under State Commission for Reconstruction and Rehabilitation...

National Mine Action Authority (NMAA) located in Baghdad, the Iraqi Kurdistan Mine Action Authority (IKMAA) and the General Directorate of Mine Action (GDMA)...

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Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction of 1997, known informally as the Ottawa Treaty, the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, or often simply the Mine Ban...

A mine flail is a vehicle-mounted device that makes a safe path through a minefield by deliberately detonating land mines in front of the vehicle that...

could take several more decades. According to the Bosnia and Herzegovina Mine Action Centre, the landmine contamination problem impacts over 538,000 people...

and American mines. The US government has recently given some financial assistance for humanitarian mine action. Land mines in Cambodia Mine clearance agency...

areas. The broader realm of mine action also includes advocacy, victim assistance, antipersonnel mine stockpile destruction, mine risk education and research...

rates in the world. The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) estimates that there may be as many as four to six million mines and other pieces of unexploded...

A Mine Action Coordination Centre is an agency established in a region under the auspices of the United Nations to coordinate the clearing of the explosive...

de déminage) is a Swiss non-governmental organisation specialising in mine action. Since its creation in 1997, FSD has carried out operations in some 30...

In anti-tank warfare, an anti-tank mine (abbreviated to "AT mine") is a type of land mine designed to damage or destroy vehicles including tanks and armored...

this law, the Israel Mine Action Authority was established and began clearing minefields in 2012. Around 1.2 million land mines laid during the 1950s...

Mine: Action-horror film is HBO Asia's first original production". Yahoo. Retrieved 5 August 2012. Ngantung, Daniel (3 August 2012). "Film Dead Mine Dirilis...

Center for International Stabilization and Recovery (CISR), formerly the Mine Action Information Center (MAIC), is a public policy center at James Madison...

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promotion of human rights. In early 2007 he began directing Egypt/UNDP Mine action in the North West Coast of Egypt, working to mitigate the heavy contamination...

systems, established in 1992. Its products make up 80% of the worlds robotized mine clearing machines. The company was formed in 1992 by Vjekoslav Majetić. It...

anti-personnel mine or anti-personnel landmine (APL) is a form of mine designed for use against humans, as opposed to an anti-tank mine, which target vehicles...

throughout mine action projects. GMAP intends to improve mine action effectiveness by increasing awareness on gender and mine action amongst mine action organisations...

and Mine Action, Spring 2012, 16.1; pp. 52-56. Macauley C. "Women after the Rwandan Genocide: Making the Most of Survival." Journal of ERW and Mine Action...

programs were coordinated through governmental bodies such as the Croatian Mine Action Centre, which was hiring private demining companies employing 632 deminers...

Mine Action Center (Persian: مرکز مین زدایی جمهوری اسلامی ایران) was formed by Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (Iran) in 2003 for mine...