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Emergency and Disaster Management

1997

United Nations

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The United Nations And Humanitarian Mine Action, Stephane Vigie Jan 1997

The United Nations And Humanitarian Mine Action, Stephane Vigie

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The international community has come to realize that only an integrated and holistic response to the issue of landmine contamination, and its multi-faceted humanitarian and socio-economic consequences, is capable of bringing real and lasting benefits to those who are to be considered at risk from these weapons. Indeed, such integrated mine action initiatives can not purely be limited to field based programmes in those countries where a humanitarian disaster has already occurred due to landmine contamination. The United Nations and other leading practitioners in the sector of mine action have long acknowledged that advocacy at the international level is also …


United Nations Assumes The Lead In Demining, David M. Ahearn Jan 1997

United Nations Assumes The Lead In Demining, David M. Ahearn

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

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