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Documents tagged with landmines

Caring for landmine victims

Every year, tens of thousands of people are killed or injured by landmines and other explosive remnants of war. Those that survive are often disabled for life and need long-term care, not only reha...
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  • icrcdocs published this 11/04/2009
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Book I: Weapon contamination environment

Weapon contamination manual: Reducing the impact of explosive remnants of war and landmines through field activities This manual has been written to act as the ICRC’s Institutional reference on ...
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  • icrcdocs published this 11/02/2009
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Book II: Planning, implementing and monitoring activities

Weapon contamination manual: Reducing the impact of explosive remnants of war and landmines through field activities This manual has been written to act as the ICRC’s Institutional reference on ...
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  • icrcdocs published this 11/02/2009
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Book III: Reference material

Weapon contamination manual: Reducing the impact of explosive remnants of war and landmines through field activities This manual has been written to act as the ICRC’s Institutional reference on ...
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  • icrcdocs published this 11/02/2009
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Ending the landmine era: achievements and challenges

This leaflet provides an essential overview of the achievements and challenges of the Ottawa Convention to date and includes a time-line detailing the progess made by the international community so...
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  • icrcdocs published this 10/27/2009
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The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society

From the landmines campaign to the Seattle protests against the WTO to the World Commission on Dams, transnational networks of civil society groups are seizing an ever-greater voice in how governme...
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  • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace published this 10/19/2009
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Mine Detection Dogs

T he detection of mines is the most critical element of an effective and cost-efficient mine-clearance operation. During the last decade, enormous investment has been made in many areas of resear...
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  • herorat published this 09/28/2009
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Rats to the Rescue: Results of the First Tests on a Real Minefield

The study in this article showed that using rats to evaluate mine risk is a very promising mine-detection method. When three rats were used to evaluate a contaminated area, the success rate was 95 ...
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  • herorat published this 09/23/2009
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Boletín inglés Colombia sin minas

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  • colombiasinminas published this 09/21/2009
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What You Should Know about the GTO-14

The GTO-14 is a group of 14 non-government organisations from the civilian population of Colombia that work in the field of anti-personnel mines and that have joined forces in order to achieve th...
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  • colombiasinminas published this 09/10/2009
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Diana 1

Princess Diana's keynote speech about landmines
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  • seneca_d_great published this 08/21/2009
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Land Mines: A Humanitarian Crisis, and the International Campaign to Ban Them

Land Mines: A Humanitarian Crisis, and the International Campaign to Ban Them - http://web.mit.edu/murj/www/v06/v06-Features/v06-f5.pdf
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  • suntiki published this 10/14/2008
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Landmines

Landmines - http://www.defence.gov.au/health/infocentre/journals/ADFHJ_sep00/ADFHealthSep00_1_3_090_092.pdf
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  • suntiki published this 10/14/2008
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Images of International Women

Short assignment based upon Geeta Chowdhry's article "Engendering Development"
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  • zimmerpflanze published this 10/01/2008
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