A BLU-97 cluster munition found close to family home in 2004

A PMA-2 mine found in 2006 by the community liaison survey team

A village house stands inside mined ground. The sign in the foreground marks the edge of HALO's clearance as its deminers work forward. The pressure for land in Cambodia forces desperate farmers onto mined land.

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A small part of the HALO Angola Land Rover fleet

A HALO Cambodia demining section with detectors and medical equipment. Demining sections are the heart of HALO's clearance programme. The typical section consists of a section commander and seven deminers. The section commander and at least two deminers are trained as medics to give help in the unlikely event of an accident or to provide medical care to civilian victims.

at the Halo Trust's briefing

View across a HALO-cleared village with deminers working in the background. The yellow sticks indicate mines found and destroyed. Following clearance this landscape will be transformed into productive farmland and safe residential space.

An explosive charge set up to destroy a BLU-97 cluster munition

Civilian mine victim is evacuated by HALO; he later died in hospital

HALO uses armoured Terex front end loaders for mechanical clearance

A clearance site in Jaffna with yellow sticks indicating where mines have been removed

Explosive remnants of war still litter Afghanistan

Many rural roads in the northern Districts of Cambodia remain seeded with anti-tank mines; the yellow stick indicates where HALO found and destroyed two Russian TM46 anti-tank mines, which were stacked atop one another. Anti-tank mines account for just 1% of all mines found in Cambodia but 23% of all casualties - they a major impediment to development and block market access for impoverished rural communities.

A HALO deminer and section commander in a minefield in Cuando Cubango province

One of the HALO armoured Multidrive 4 x 4 Road Threat Reduction units next to an anti tank mine it had found previously

A berked constructed by a local NGO stockpiles water in anticipation of the dry season near HALO's clearance at the Lady Tea shop minefield south of Hargeisa

A deminer investigates a metal signal

An Anti Tank mine strike on a road in Huambo province

HALO’s Programme Manager discusses with a local government representative which villages in south-eastern Antioquia department have had casualties from mines

Thma Puok Location Manager Makara briefs deminers at the start of a monthly demining cycle. HALO organizes its demining workforce geographically. Deminers deploy at the beginning of the month from one four locations, each a mini-headquarters based in a compound with a cadre of senior operational staff, office staff, workshop, stores, electronics repair facility, explosives storage, medical facilities, and communications equipment.

Goden minefield, western Kosovo, where in 2004 HALO found and removed 253 AP mines

Puplis in Arayambo attend class on the newly built school. The school and the playground were build by an internatioinal NGO following HALO's mineclearance

Fiat Allis FL5B mechanical clearance

It is good to know that there are no mines in the bushes before having a guerilla shite... Thank you Halo Trust that my ass did not exploded in 1000s of pieces when I had a shit.

Clearance of cluster munitions close to Gjakove near the Albanian border

Demining next to a main road

Deminers enjoy a tea break between working periods - the standard working shift is 50 minutes followed by a 10 minute break

Minister Burt and his team were given a briefing by Adam Jasinski, Country Manager for the HALO Trust before visiting a demining site in Tellipalai.

A HALO clearance team clearing a cluster munition strike in a Serb enclave

All remaining minefields in Abkhazia will be cleared by the end of March 2011

Deminers assembled at morning parade

A BLU-97 cluster munition found by HALO's survey team in February 2007 on a previously unrecorded task in eastern Kosovo

A new house being built on cleared land on the Northern border

Casualty evacuation exercises are conducted regularly from mountain minefields in Abkhazia

Minister Alistair Burt chats with Adam Jasinski, Sri Lanka Country Manager of UK demining agency, the HALO Trust, at a demining site in Veemankamam, Jaffna, during the Minister's visit to the Jaffna District.