Afghan children are often victims of their natural inquistiveness

Clearance of the remaining threat in Abkhazia involves an ongoing planning process with senior management

Local people using a cleared lane through the minefields on the Northern border

Woodcutters benefiting from HALO's clearance of cluster munitions

Manual deminers are the backbone of the HALO Afghanistan mineclearance programme

Pilgrims can now safety access religious sites. Over 350 mines have been cleared from this particular area in Abkhazia alone

A road in Zambezia province

Mine Risk Education

A demining supervisor removing a mine for destruction in a central demolition site

An Explosive Ordnance Disposal team sorting through a store of abandoned ordnance for removal and safe disposal

Survey teams deploying by ferry during the monsoon season

HALO Afghan deminers on an HSTAMIDS course in Cambodia. HALO provides cross-training between its programmes in order to spur innovation and develop efficiencies.

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.

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Mechanical clearance in Jaffna using an ALLU crushing bucket

Densely laid mine site - each white stick indicates the location of an anti-personnel mine found and destroyed by HALO

Part of the HALO Angola mechanical demining fleet

Deminers being trained to use a metal detector

A HALO survey officer talks to villagers during the Landmine Impact Survey

Russian manufactured PMN anti-personnel mines handed over to HALO by military

An organization called the halo trust, that performs mine and ordinance removal, working to make the northern regions of Georgia safer.

www.halotrust.org/

A deminer investigates a signal marked by a dual sensor detector. The red chip being dug up by the deminer means that the detector indicated the signal was possible a mine. The blue chips are metal signals that the detector did not deem to be mines.

Emergency clearance of the main road verges using armoured front loaders

HALO has cleared anti-tank mines from numerous roads in Afghanistan

The Minister met a resettled community at Viththakapuram, in Tellipalai, Jaffna.

Anti-tank mines have a devastating effect when driven over by civilian vehicles

Hungarian manufactured GYATA64 anti-personnel mine, found in great numbers in western border mine panels

Mines from the Northern Border before safe disposal

Minelab F3 linear clearance drills

Local family with mine accident victim, Phsa Prum, Pailin Province

A HALO Survey Officer mapping in Bie Province

Clearing S24 rockets

Hand-Held Stand-Off Mine Detection System – dual sensor detector

Another civilian landmine victim - in this instance the victim was lucky that a HALO team was nearby

A Chinese T69 anti-personnel mine lashed to a Russian TM46 anti-tank mine

HALO Cambodia’s Survey & Data Department, Programme Headquarters, Siem Reap

Surveying suspect ground on the Jaffna Peninsula

One of the armoured HALO Road Threat Reduction units towing detonation trailers

A HALO supervisor talks to villagers during the Mine Impact Free District survey of Northern Mozambique

HALO USA Board Member Cindy McCain and supporting donors Freedom Fields USA Foundation members visit HALO

Mineclearance has enabled refugees and IDPs to return to their homes safely