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GICHD Insights | Towards The Fifth Review Conference of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC)
The Fifth Review Conference of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC) will open in Siem Reap- Angkor, Cambodia, on 25 November 2024. To contribute to preparations for this event, the GICHD is launching a series of issue...
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Annual Report 2023
Every year and across the world, explosive ordnance (EO) threatens the lives of millions of people. Lives are lost; survivors and their families struggle with the physical, psychological, social, and economic consequences of EO...
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Geneva Diary: Report from the GICHD | June 2004
As the theme of this edition of the Journal of Mine Action is about the use of the military in mine action, I would like to remind readers of the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) publication titled...
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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...
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A Study of Mechanical Application in Demining
The GICHD Study of Mechanical Application in Demining is published after two years of research. The study puts the spotlight onto the use of machines as part of worldwide efforts to clear land mines. It looks at how machines...
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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...
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