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2. Mines Advisory Group - Wikipedia

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   2,547 (2016) Website. maginternational.org. The Mines Advisory Group ( MAG) is a non-governmental organization that assists people affected by landmines, unexploded ordnance, and small arms and light weapons . MAG takes a humanitarian approach to landmine action. They focus on the impact of their work on local communities.

3. United Nations Mine Action Service - Wikipedia

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   UN Secretary-General António Guterres (right) meets with former UNMAS Director Agnès Marcaillou (centre) and UN Global Advocate Daniel Craig (left) on 18 October 2017.. The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) is a service located within the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations that specializes in coordinating and implementing activities to limit the threat posed by ...

4. Mine clearance organization - Wikipedia

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   A mine clearance organization, or demining organization, is an organization involved in the removal of landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) for military, humanitarian, or commercial reasons. Demining includes mine clearance (actual removal and destruction of landmines/UXO from the ground), as well as surveying, mapping and marking of ...

5. Mines, disease and more: The dangers in Ukraine's floodwaters

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   Greg Crowther, director of programs at the Mines Advisory Group, a British NGO, also stressed the long-term effects of mine subsidence and warned that the unexploded bombs could end up in homes ...

6. Mine action - Wikipedia

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   Mine action is commonly represented as comprising five complementary groups of activities: [2] : 4. Humanitarian demining, i.e. mine and ERW survey, land release, mapping, marking and clearance. Risk education (RE), i.e. the communication to the public of the risk of ERW and how to act in the presence of ERW.

7. International Campaign to Ban Landmines - Wikipedia

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   The Campaign receiving the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize. The International Campaign to Ban Landmines ( ICBL) is a coalition of non-governmental organizations whose stated objective is a world free of anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions, where mine and cluster munitions survivors see their rights respected and can lead fulfilling lives.