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Gender and Diversity in the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM)

Cluster munition remnants continue to harm people and communities around the world. Though they are indiscriminate weapons, their impact and consequences are different based on a person’s gender identity and expression, and on how...

24/08/2022
Gender and Diversity in the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM)
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Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining | Twenty Years of Supporting Mine Action

 

This book was published on the anniversary of the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining's 20th anniversary. In 1997, at the adoption of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC), Switzerland announced its...

14/12/2018
Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining | Twenty Years of Supporting Mine Action
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The Role of the Military in Mine Action

 

 

This study seeks to determine the comparative advantages of the use of serving military in mine action programmes. The study considers a range of operational mine action tasks (survey, marking, mapping, clearance, stockpile...

01/05/2004
The Role of the Military in Mine Action
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  • Ian Mansfield, GICHD, Eric Filippino, GICHD
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ERW : States Conclude a Protocol

In November 2003, the States Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) met in Geneva and agreed to the creation of a Fifth Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War (ERW). This new international humanitarian law...

01/05/2004
ERW : States Conclude a Protocol
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  • Paul Ellis, GICHD
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Explosive Remnants of War: The Negotiations Continue
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  • Paul Ellis, GICHD
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Explosive Remnants of War: The impact of current negotiations

The 1980 UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) has become the focus for new measures of international law on the issue of explosive remnants of war (ERW), a category that includes UXO and abandoned ammunition. The...

01/04/2003
Explosive Remnants of War: The impact of current negotiations
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  • Paul Ellis, GICHD
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Anti-vehicle (anti-tank) Mines | A Powerpoint presentation

This PowerPoint presentation from 2002 was given by the Technical Director of the GICHD at the time. The topics covered are: Philosophy, Engineering, Impact on Non-Combatants.

01/01/2002
Anti-vehicle (anti-tank) Mines | A Powerpoint presentation
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  • GICHD