The United Nations Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU) has produced its 5th updated map of townships with suspected landmine hazard from Landmine Monitor 2016 data. The map shows in shaded relief cumulative townships in which Landmine Monitor has discovered landmine contamination through casualty reports or other reports of mined areas, Read more…
On 27 December, the Myanmar/Burma country report in the 2016 Landmine Monitor Report Global Report, was presented to the Myanmar Press at a Press Conference. The following are some of the slides based on information within the global Read more…
Landmine Monitor Report 2016 was released a week ago at the Fifteenth Meeting of States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty in Santiago, Chile. In 2015 (the year covered in the report) Afghanistan continued to produce the highest number of victims. Intensification of armed conflict in the middle-east, in particular Read more…
Humanitarian Demining organizations Halo Trust, Mines Advisory Group and Norwegian People’s Aid released Clearing the Mines, a joint survey by humanitarian mine clearance organizations which ranks countries efforts to eradicate the threat of landmines within their borders. This is the third report to rank national mine clearance efforts. The report Read more…