UNICEF works to teach children and their families how to live safely in contaminated areas until the lethal threat can be cleared permanently. Partnership is key to long-term solutions, and so UNICEF works with states, non-state actors, other UN agencies, civil-society and other international organisations. Generally called “Mine Risk Education,” or “MRE,” UNICEF also supports the survivors of ERW incidents, and others who are injured and disabled. Most important to a long term solution, many of these weapons now are banned. UNICEF has been, and remains, a strong advocate of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention and the Convention on Cluster Munitions – the two most successful examples of humanitarian disarmament in recent times. We advocate for the Optional Protocol to the CRC on Children and Armed Conflict, and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. These are critical tools for protecting children.
Regions of MA operation
- Africa
- Asia
- Europe
- Middle East
- The Americas
Related mine action topics
- International conventions
- Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC)
- Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM)
- Risk education
- Victim assistance
- International Organisations
- UNICEF House, 3 United Nations Plaza, 10017, New York, NY, , United States
- http://www.unicef.org/
- info@unicef.org