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Ap Mine Ban Convention 2020 Intercessional Meeting: Committee On Article 5 Implementation Observations, Apmbc

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Background documents and preliminary observations of the Committee on Article 5 Implementation from the following countries:

• Angola
• Argentina
• Cambodia
• Croatia
• Ethiopia
• Iraq
• Mozambique
• Oman
• Peru
• Serbia
• Sudan
• Tajikistan
• Thailand
• Turkey
• United Kingdom
• Yemen
• Zimbabwe

Ap Mine Ban Convention 2020 Intercessional Meeting: Statements On Matters Related To Article 5 Implementation, Apmbc

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Written submissions from States and organisations on matters related to the status of implementation of the Convention and the Oslo Action Plan.

Matters related to Article 5 Implementation for the following affected States Parties: Chad, Croatia, Iraq, Peru, Senegal, Serbia, Sudan, Tajikstan, Turkey, United Kingdom, Yemen.

Other States Parties and Organizations: Chile, Ireland, Switzerland, United Nations Inter-Agency Coordination Group on Mine Action

Ap Mine Ban Convention 2020 Intercessional Meeting: Committee On Victim Assistance Observations, Apmbc

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APMBC Intercessional Meeting June-July 2020 Committee on Victim Assistance preliminary observations by the following countries:

• Algeria
• Angola
• Cambodia
• Chile
• Colombia
• Croatia
• Ethiopia
• Iraq
• Jordan
• Mozambique
• Peru
• South Sudan
• Sudan
• Tajikistan
• Thailand
• Turkey
• Yemen
• Zimbabwe

Ap Mine Ban Convention 2020 Intercessional Meeting: Statements On Matters Related To Victim Assistance Implementation, Apmbc

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Updated information submitted by States and organizations on matters related to the status of implementation of the Convention and the Oslo Action Plan. States parties that have declared significant numbers of landmines survivors: Iraq, Peru, South Sudan, Sudan, Tajikistan, Yemen.

Other States Parties and organizations: Chile and United Kingdom.

Ap Mine Ban Convention 2020 Intercessional Meeting: Statements On Matters Related To Cooperation And Assistance, Apmbc

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Matters related to the status of implementation of the Convention and the Oslo Action Plan.

Specific matters related to Cooperation and Assistance: Chile, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Netherlands, Peru, Senegal, Sudan, Switzerland, Tajikistan, United Kingdom

Ap Mine Ban Convention 2020 Intercessional Meeting: Statements On Matters Compliance, Apmbc

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Matters related to the status of implementation of the Convention and the Oslo Action Plan.

Matters specifically related to the subject of compliance: Chile, Iraq, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Iraq Programme Report 2020, Unmas

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In 2020, UNMAS Iraq prioritised the following areas of support:

• Support government and national mine action entities with managing, regulating, and coordinating a mine action response through Technical Support (TS) initiatives;
• Deliver Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE) at the community and national level; and
• Provide Explosive Hazard Management (EHM) response in support of humanitarian and stabilization efforts.

Due to the nature of threats posed by EO, UNMAS and its implementing partners are among the first responders allowing the humanitarian community and local authorities to intervene quickly and efficiently to help civilians.

A significant mine action capacity gap remains in Iraq. …

A Persistent Danger: Unexploded Ordnance In Populated Areas, Npa, Mines Advisory Group, Humanity And Inclusion

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The United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the International Network on Explosive Weapons have convincingly documented that the use of explosive weapons (especially those with wide area effects) in populated areas (EWIPA) creates an unacceptably high risk of indiscriminate harm. As humanitarian mine action organizations working in urban environments, we see this harm being done in numerous conflict zones every day.

Discussion of the harm caused by EWIPA typically focuses on the immediate effects of these weapons when they explode, as well as reverberating effects leading to displacement; damage to vital services such as healthcare, water, …

Demining In Urban Centres Is A Race Against Time, Pascal Rapillard, Jeremy Repond

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Pascal Rapillard, GICHD Head of External Relations, Policy and Cooperation programme and Jérémy Repond, GICHD External Relations Officer, expand on how demining in urban centres is a race against time.

Demining In Urban Centers Is A Race Against Time, Pascal Rapillard, Jeremy Repond

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Identifying and clearing explosive ordnances in formerly embattled areas in Iraq is a matter of priority as refugees and internally displaced persons are returning to their homes. It is a race against time.

Iraq Programme Report 2018, Unmas

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Upon request from the Government of Iraq and the United Nations, the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) was formally established in June 2015 to lead the efforts, in close collaboration with the Iraqi government, to mitigate explosive hazards in country. Our mission is to facilitate the safe, dignified, and voluntary return of internally displaced persons to their homes. UNMAS achieves this mandate through three different response modalities: » First, we provide explosive hazard management in support of humanitarian and stabilization efforts. » Second, we deliver risk education at the community, national and regional level to protect the local population …

Iraq Programme Report 2019, Unmas

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Transition: In 2019, UNMAS Iraq, along with its implementing partners and in collaboration with other United Nations (UN) organizations, continued to contribute to that end despite continuing security threats where we work, political uncertainty, social unrest, and reduced fund-ing for our clearance work, risk education programmes, and technical assistance provided to our Iraqi counterparts. In response, UNMAS Iraq:

• Clearance: Introduced a new business model with a reduced “international footprint”. By gradually reducing international staff and re-deploying the remainder from “hands on” clearance tasks to exclusively supervisory, consultative and quality assurance roles in support of an increased, fully qualified local staff. …

Ddasaccident812, Hd-Aid

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On 17/05/2016 the operation manager of [Demining organization involved] has contacted us by telephone to inform about explosion of an IED in their worksite or the risk (Hazard) area 012 in the village of Tal Al-Rabiea /Daquq /Kirkuk and after the call, the in-charge person of Quality Assurance: [Name removed] and his assistant: [Name removed] we have moved toward the location in order to collect necessary information and taking the photos of the place of the incident. According to the information gained by the board it was found that the affected person: [the Victim] has intended to render some IEDs …

Review Of Sida's Support To Mine Action 2001-2009 - Final Report, Sida

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This report presents the findings, conclusions and recommendations of an external review of Sida's support to mine action activities between 2001 and 2009 undertaken by COWI A/S and Channel Research. The review provides an overview of Sida's engagement in mine action during the decade, as well as assessments of the relevance of relevant Sida policies and strategies, and the results achieved through support to global organisations and country level programmes. The review included country field visits to Sida supported mine action programmes in Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The methodology applied was based on the evaluation frameworks of …

Irish Aid - Mines Advisory Group (Mag) Iraqi Kurdistan Evaluation, Vera Bohle, Gabrielle Chaizy

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On 1 May 2006 Irish Aid started funding Mines Advisory Group (MAG) to implement the project ‘Integrated Humanitarian Mine Action Programme, Iraq' in Erbil, Dahuk and Mosul. The funding agreement runs to September 2010 and Irish Aid and MAG have discussed the continuation of the project. The two parties decided to commission an evaluation to inform the extension decision. The evaluation is intended to (i) inform decisions regarding the possible continuation of the project and (ii) contribute to enhanced project performance. The evaluation was conducted by a team fielded by the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) in the …

Iraq Mine Action Strategy (2010-2012), Gichd

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The first draft of a mine action strategy in Iraq was formulated in 2004 in line with the urgent requirement to structure and organize mine action in Iraq in order to support national development priorities in line with the National Development Strategy (NDS).

At the time of the development of this strategy it was not clear what the role of each of the involved Ministries, civil society organizations and the United Nations support program for mine action, which made it incapable of achieving it goals in a manner consistent with that stage.

And thus the current mine action strategy was …

U.S. Army/ U.S. Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Center (Coin), Cisr

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As we prosecute the current campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, and the Philippines, the military must also prepare for an uncertain security situation beyond the present theaters of conflict. It is a future that will be heavily influenced by global competition for declining natural resources, rapidly rising populations in underprivileged and underdeveloped areas, unstable economic markets, and the continuing resurgence of violent religious and secular ideologies challenging democracy as a credible political theory. Additionally, U.S. Force must account for the impact of rapid information transfer, porous national borders, globalization, increased indigent migrating populations with elevated expectations, and …

Rapid Humanitarian Assessments And Rationality: A Value Of Information Study From Iraq, 2003-2004, Aldo Benini, Charles Conley

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This is an extended case study of a rapid humanitarian assessment and the factors that shaped a long series of decisions during its design and execution. The subject matter-contamination with landmine and Unexploded Ordonance (UXO)- and the settings- Iraq in 2003 and 2004- are almost incidental. The focus is on the rationality of decision-making during the assessment, meaning in this case, the value of the information produced versus the effort needed to produce it.

Ddasaccident542, Hd-Aid

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[Name removed] then tells everyone to stay in the control point as he and [Victim No.2] are going to check out the next task location. During this time I am sat in the ambulance along with [Name removed] the team 5 medic. I hear an explosion and know it was not carried out by us. Shortly afterwards a message come across the radio requesting medic medic come to help us. [Name removed] then informs me to follow him to the incident site. He arrived roughly 10-15 seconds before us. He then tells me and [the Medic] to help [Victim No.2] …

Ddasaccident524, Hd-Aid

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Details of this accident have been withheld by the demining NGO that employed the Victim. A spreadsheet including the Victim’s name and very brief details of the accident was made available in 2007. Some details can be inferred from the information released. For example, the severe facial injury indicates that a visor was not worn by the Victim.

Iraq Ordnance Identification Guide, Cisr

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The Iraq Ordnance Identification Guide supports the U.S. Department of Defense humanitarian mine action program. This guide provides information to facilitate international unexploded ordnance (UXO) awareness and identification. This guide is not intended for use by Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technicians. Rather, it is designed for other personnel who, of necessity, are trying to identify ordnance in the absence of trained EOD military professionals.

Ddasaccident519, Hd-Aid

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Details of this accident have been withheld by the demining NGO that employed the Victim. A spreadsheet including the Victim’s name and very brief details of the accident was made available in 2007. Some details can be inferred from the information released. For example, the fact that there were three Victims implies that safety distances were not being enforced.

Ddasaccident517, Hd-Aid

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The primary cause of this accident is listed as a “Field control inadequacy” because it seems that the Victim was disarming a mine designated “no-touch” by the demining group, and may have been doing so without wearing appropriate PPE. The secondary cause is listed as a “Management control inadequacy” because the management of the demining group declined to make the accident details available. Although this is sometimes done to protect the Victims, in this case the Victim’s name was among the limited detail made available. It is possible that the managers have chosen to avoid transparency because they are afraid …

Ddasaccident516, Hd-Aid

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The primary cause of this accident is listed as a “Field control inadequacy” because the accident occurred in the “post-clearance” phase so the mine had either been missed during clearance, or was outside (but close to) the cleared area, so implying inadequate survey. The fact that four deminers were injured implies that the Field controllers believed they were in a safe area, or that safety distances were being ignored. The spread of injuries indicates that protective visors were not being used.

Ddasaccident426, Hd-Aid

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The propellant was determined to be the most immediate problem. In order to safely access the rest of the ordnance in the bunker. [The victim] was tasked with the removal and destruction the propellant. And [Name excised 2] would continue to supervise the operations inside the bunker. A burn area was located 600m east of the bunker task site at Lat 30, 26’, 40” Long 47, 43’, 47” a dirt berm with three enclosed sides. [The victim] had burned twice before during the morning. An hour and half after the last burn [The victim] set up for the final burn …

Ddasaccident429, Hd-Aid

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The UN Mine Action Service assigned the task to [the Demining group] by the UN Mine Action Service. [The Demining group] has been on the site now since 1 Jul. And were in the final phases of the clearance task. [The Victim] was in the process of clearing the last of the propellant that was on site. Once collected he had a small pile less than a meter in diameter. He then prepared a propellant trail leading into the main body of the propellant. [The Victim] used a combination of projectile propellant and black powder from a charge bag in …

Ddasaccident514, Hd-Aid

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This incident is classed as a “Missed-mine accident” because it seems that the device that detonated was inside the area cleared. If it was not, then this would become yet another “Survey accident” (the demining group had several in Iraq at this time). The primary cause of this accident is listed as a “Field control inadequacy” because the victims went to place markers in an area that was believed to be safe but which was not. Those responsible for the work should have kept an accurate record of the safe area. It seems that the field controllers may also have …

Ddasaccident388, Hd-Aid

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On 10th June 2003, [demining group] EOD Team Echo 3 were conducting a clearance operation on a building used by the Iraqi Forces to store ammunition of mixed natures. At approximately 10:35hrs, a fierce fire was detected outside the building immediately after the demolition by detonation of 2 Sagger missiles. The fire spread rapidly to inside the building and several loud explosions where seen and heard to take place.

Ddasaccident466, Hd-Aid

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Details of this accident have been withheld by the demining NGO that employed the Victim. A spreadsheet including the Victim’s name and very brief details of the accident was made available in 2007. Some details can be inferred from the information released. For example, the limited injury implies that the victim’s PPE was being worn.

Ddasaccident465, Hd-Aid

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Details of this accident have been withheld by the demining NGO that employed the Victim. A spreadsheet including the Victim’s name and very brief details of the accident was made available in 2007. Some details can be inferred from the information released. For example, the limited spread of injury implies that the victims may have been wearing PPE.