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An air campaign was waged for 2 years during the NKR conflict. Many bombs failed to detonate and still pose a threat today

Military maps are analysed to assess where clearance assets are deployed to clear the remaining threat in Abkhazia

HALO supervisor conducts a demolition of a previously located item

Most of the mines in Colombia are improvised. They are normally made out of common household items, such as coffee cans, soda bottles, and jerry cans

HALO Survey Supervisor Hasan Madobi takes a bearing

Orthodox Christians being baptised in the Holy Spring, Abkhazia. HALO has cleared this site of 128 landmines

HALO's Survey Teams also use horses to access the last mountain minefields in Abkhazia

Cluster sub munitions are cleared by HALO's Battle Area Clearance Teams in NKR

An armoured Terex Loader uses a star basket to sift excavated soil for mines at Bali Abane minefield

The Head of MINUSCA , Babacar Gaye, visited on Sunday July 5 Camp Béal, to witness the finalization of the depollution process launched on July 4 2015. During his visit, Babacar Gaye was accompanied by his two deputies, Diane Corner and Aurelién Agbénonci, MINUSCA’s Force Commander and Police Commissioner, Martin Chomu Tumenta and Luis Carrilho

 

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Formation des forces armées centrafricaines (FACA) et gendarmes sur la destruction des armes avec la cisaille hydraulique. Un programme de UNMAS en partenariat avec l’ONG britannique HaloTrust. Bangui Mars 2014. Photo BINUCA/Balepe Mokosso Dany

Formation des forces armées centrafricaines (FACA) et gendarmes sur la destruction des armes avec la cisaille hydraulique. Un programme de UNMAS en partenariat avec l’ONG britannique HaloTrust. Bangui Mars 2014. Photo BINUCA/Balepe Mokosso Dany

Minister Burt met the Jaffna Governor, Major Gen. G A Chandrasiri during his visit to the Jaffna peninsula.

Prodding is a quick and cost effective way of detecting minimum metal AT mines

Foreign Office Director for South Asia, Neil Crompton, British Deputy High Commissioner, Robbie Bulloch with Head of Origination and Client Coverage Wholesale Banking for Standard Chartered Bank, Colin Pawley and Head of Corporate Affaires Sanjeewani de Silva

The poorest families are obliged to live closest to mined ground, in this case anti-tank mines laid along an old road

All metal signals could be a mine and are investigated as such

Claudia, a Colombian survey officer uses a mule to reach a remote village during HALO’s survey operation

A candidate on a deming course practices excavating a mine

A civilian anti-personnel mine victim, Malai District, Banteay Meanchey Province. As in this case, HALO provides medical care and evacuation to a hospital for mine accident victims.

Formation des forces armées centrafricaines (FACA) et gendarmes sur la destruction des armes avec la cisaille hydraulique. Un programme de UNMAS en partenariat avec l’ONG britannique HaloTrust. Bangui Mars 2014. Photo BINUCA/Balepe Mokosso Dany

On completion of demining this village can be safely reoccupied

HALO deminer cuts vegetation to prepare his lane for detector checks at Luqun Lo Aad minefield

Formation des forces armées centrafricaines (FACA) et gendarmes sur la destruction des armes avec la cisaille hydraulique. Un programme de UNMAS en partenariat avec l’ONG britannique HaloTrust. Bangui Mars 2014. Photo BINUCA/Balepe Mokosso Dany

HALO battle area clearance team systematically searches for unexploded ordnance at Toqoshi

All surveyed minefields are marked and Mines Risk Education is given to the surrounding communities

Verification of land through mechanical rolling operations instills local communities' confidence in land

FCO Minister Alistair Burt and the British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, John Rankin, called on the Bishop of Jaffna, Rt. Rev. Dr. Thomas Savundranayagam, during the Minister's visit to Jaffna.

A mine warning sign written in English, Sinalese and Tamil languages

Director Crompton and Deputy High Commissioner with participants of the Standard Chartered and Yaalpaanam Chamber of Commerce livelihoods training programme.

During the first two years of HALO's NKR programme all roads were cleared of mines

The High-Level segment of the Maputo Review Conference on a Mine-Free World took place during the last two days of the Conference.

 

Several States addressed the conference during the high-level segment, while other delegations signed or witnessed the signing of the Maputo +15 Declaration.

 

Guy Willoughby of the HALO Trust, signed the declaration on behalf of his delegation.

 

For more information:

www.maputoreviewconference.org/

 

All photos are courtesy of the Implementation Support Unit, ISU.

 

Although initially planned as a hybrid meeting, the Nineteenth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the prohibition of anti-personnel mines had to be carried out in a fully virtual format, due to sudden Covid-19 restrictions in The Hague. Over 500 registered delegates from all over the world attended the formal diplomatic sessions from 15-19 November.

 

Photos are free to use in the context of the Convention, as follows, ®AP Mine Ban Convention ISU, or ®Ottawa Convention ISU. For other uses, please email us: press(at)apminebanconvention.org.

 

For more information on the meeting: bit.ly/19MSP.

An unsecured stockpile of ammunition at a military installation - HALO is assisting various Government parties to destroy or secure ordnance

OZM-72 Anti Group mines are part of the layout of most minefields in NKR

HALO deminer on the outskirts of an IDP camp next to Hargeisa

Formation des forces armées centrafricaines (FACA) et gendarmes sur la destruction des armes avec la cisaille hydraulique. Un programme de UNMAS en partenariat avec l’ONG britannique HaloTrust. Bangui Mars 2014. Photo BINUCA/Balepe Mokosso Dany

An Anti Tank mine found by HALO on a road in Huambo province

Through necessity Afghans are often forced to remove mines from their homes and land

HALO deminer isolating a signal detected by the metal detector. To ensure full clearance of the area, HALO deminers excavate all identified signals

Amputee by mined ground near the Cambodia - Thailand border

Formation des forces armées centrafricaines (FACA) et gendarmes sur la destruction des armes avec la cisaille hydraulique. Un programme de UNMAS en partenariat avec l’ONG britannique HaloTrust. Bangui Mars 2014. Photo BINUCA/Balepe Mokosso Dany

Deputy High Commissioner lighting the traditional oil lamp while other guests look-on.

A deming supervisor patrols his task site

The 2022 Intersessional Meetings took place in Geneva 20-22 June with over 300 participants from more than 80 countries. Delegates discussed the state of mine clearance, and assistance to victims among others. Photos free of copyright for media purposes. All others must courtesy the AP Mine Ban Convention or Ottawa Convention.

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P4 anti-personnel mine peaks through the leaf litter at Habasweyne minefield

Formation des forces armées centrafricaines (FACA) et gendarmes sur la destruction des armes avec la cisaille hydraulique. Un programme de UNMAS en partenariat avec l’ONG britannique HaloTrust. Bangui Mars 2014. Photo BINUCA/Balepe Mokosso Dany

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