Full Coverage: Landmines

22.01.2008 Landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) have killed and maimed hundreds of people in Afghanistan in 2007, says the UN Mine Action Centre for Afghanistan. These explosive remnants of war left behind by various military factions during the 90s continue to endanger the lives of civilians.

18.09.2007 British mining giant Vedanta Resources plans to mine section of protected forests in India have been delayed after the Supreme Court ordered a root and branch impact study.

31.08.2007 BOGOTA, Aug 31 (OneWorld) - A Colombian indigenous community has called for an end to the use of anti-personnel mines in the country after an explosion killed two men.

04.04.2007 An Indian organisation, CSE (Center for Science and Environment), is providing a platform for experts and stakeholders to discuss issues ranging from the costs and impacts of mining, to mineral laws and regulations and people’s movements against mines on April 26-27, 2007 in Indian capital, New Delhi.

25.04.2006 After benefiting from a surge in funding following the fall of the Taliban at the end of 2001 and consequently clearing over half the minefields in Afghanistan, the United Nations Mine Action Programme for the country (MAPA) is currently projecting a funding shortfall in 2006.

13.04.2006 A Tajikistan agency is de-mining the Afghan-Tajik border which is one of the highest mine-risk areas in central Asia. The Tajik de-mining body hopes to clear mines in a 2,000 sq metres area within three weeks.

05.04.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C. Apr 4 (OneWorld) - Landmines sown during past conflicts could be cleared in a matter of years--not decades--the United Nations said Tuesday, offering hope that hundreds of thousands of people will be spared death or dismemberment.

08.03.2006 Sri Lanka has removed more than half a million landmines sown in the island's north and east during two decades of civil war, and aims to clear the other half by the end of 2008. The country still has swathes of land where mines from Pakistan and China have been laid and can go off even after many years.

03.03.2006 The Polisario Front, which has been fighting for three decades for an independent state in Western Sahaha, has begun destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines.

28.12.2005 UNITED NATIONS, Dec 28 (OneWorld) - In 1994, the United States was the first nation to call for the elimination of landmines that killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of innocent people around the world.

12.12.2005 Eleven years after Armenia fought in southern Azerbaijan over a breakaway republic, unexploded landmines continue to make arable land too dangerous to sow and put locals at risk in their daily lives. Discover the process that's slowly giving villagers back their land, and meet some of those the mines have touched.

31.08.2005 Farmers in Cambodia still live in fear. Not of the Khmer Rouge but of the millions of landmines buried in the land they farm, that their children or livestock could unintentionally set off. Michael Haddigan explores how non-profit organizations, Cambodia Mine Action Centre and Heifer International, are helping farmers regain the rich agricultural land from the deadly mines.

10.08.2005 Minister of Civil Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Safet Halilovic, together with the Ambassador of the Netherlands in BiH, H.E. Mr. Karel Vosskuhler, cut the ribbon in Ugorsko, a village in the Sarajevo Municipality of Vogosca, marking the commencement of this year’s mine clearance activities within UNDP Integrated Mine Action Programme.

03.08.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug 3 (OneWorld) - The United States looks set to resume making landmines after nearly a decade-long halt in the manufacture of the explosive munitions, a leading rights watchdog said Wednesday.

20.07.2005 Six years after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) drove Yugoslav troops out of Kosovo amid ethnic fighting between Albanians and Serbs, unexploded mines are still claiming victims in the United Nations-administered province and continued donor funding is needed for clearance operations.

20.07.2005 After the latest casualty was claimed by leftover landmines, the Croatian Mine Action Centre warned the citizens not to enter the marked minefields, suspicious looking areas, and to observe the signs that warn of land mines.

08.07.2005 The Ministry of Spatial Planning and Environmental Protection of Sarajevo Canton signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Fund for Demining and Assistance to Landmine Victims (ITF) from Slovenia, on providing assistance in the demining of the Bijambare protected area in Ilijas Municipality.

15.06.2005 There are remaining 209,5 square kilometers of suspected mine-field in 19 towns and municipalities in the Osijek-Baranja District, which puts the District on the last place of the list of most polluted areas in Croatia in terms of land-mine pollution.

05.04.2005 The Department for International Development (DFID) is funding an innovative technology which clears landmines with "pyrotechnic torches". These devices reduce costs of anti-mining operations and can be operated by local people.

02.03.2005 As nations around the globe observe the sixth anniversary of the Mine Ban Treaty, South African Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu looks at the accomplishments of African nations in ridding the continent of what he calls an "inhumane and indiscriminate weapon," but challenges governments to reduce numbers of casualties and acres of productive land taken by antipersonnel landmines.