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Landmine Victim Assistance Progress, Challenges And Best Practices, Michael Lundquist
Landmine Victim Assistance Progress, Challenges And Best Practices, Michael Lundquist
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
While progress has been made in several areas of mine action, victim assistance is facing a number of new challenges. This article presents these challenges and three areas of best practice: addressing complex needs, developing capacity and leadership, and broadening interest in the issue.
Victim Assistance: Still Seeking The Way, Suzanne Fiederlein
Victim Assistance: Still Seeking The Way, Suzanne Fiederlein
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
This article looks at the progress made in the area of victim assistance since 2002 with special attention paid to data collection, funding and program coordination.
The Yemen Association For Landmine And Uxo Survivors, Anne Capelle
The Yemen Association For Landmine And Uxo Survivors, Anne Capelle
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Since its creation in September 2004 by the Yemen Executive Mine Action Centre, the Yemen Association for Landmine and UXO Survivors has played an active role in raising awareness of mine-affected areas and in promoting socioeconomic reintegration of mine/unexploded ordnance survivors through educational programs. Currently, YALS and YEMAC are working together with the goal of reintegrating 500 survivors by 2009.
Erw And Survivor Assistance In Central Vietnam, Ari Perlstein, Imbert Matthee
Erw And Survivor Assistance In Central Vietnam, Ari Perlstein, Imbert Matthee
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
In central Vietnam, the problem of unexploded ordnance and landmine contamination is still particularly serious, and casualty rates continue to be high in certain areas. The following is an overview of Clear Path International’s activities in the region, and includes an analysis of the most recent data collected about explosive remnants of war incidents.
Cultivating A Broader Base For Landmine Action, Tammie Warmus, Maggie Emery
Cultivating A Broader Base For Landmine Action, Tammie Warmus, Maggie Emery
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
With the total number of landmine victims increasing daily and the level of donor commitment decreasing, it is more important than ever to build a broader base of interest and support for landmine victim assistance, often a lifelong need. The Coffeelands Landmine Victims’ Trust is an initiative that attempts to do just that by engaging the coffee industry and consumers
Pioneering Prosthetics, Duane Nelson
Pioneering Prosthetics, Duane Nelson
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Duane Nelson, along with a friend and colleague, Jody Riggs, spent three months in 2007 assisting amputees along the Thailand/Burma (Myanmar) border. Their specialized training in prosthetics and orthotics changed the lives of the amputees, and the families and communities of these survivors. With the aid of local actors, Nelson and Riggs helped the survivors travel the road to recovery.
Basra, Iraq, Prosthetics Project, Cisr Journal
Basra, Iraq, Prosthetics Project, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
The Basra, Iraq, Prosthetics Project, has given new hope to the many amputees in Iraq. With thousands already affected by the aftermath of landmines and other explosive remnants of war in Iraq, the Basra Prosthetics Project is dedicated to giving amputees their independence and futures back, literally one step at a time.
Aimca-Oas: Enhancing Aid To Landmine Survivors, Nicole Vera
Aimca-Oas: Enhancing Aid To Landmine Survivors, Nicole Vera
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Since 1997, the Organization of American States’ Comprehensive Action against Anti-personnel Mines (Acción Integral contra Minas Antipersonal or AICMA) has been increasing aid to landmine survivors and their families. Through vocational training, physical and psychological rehabilitation, job placement, social reintegration and emergency treatment, AICMA-OAS has provided hundreds of landmine survivors with the help they need to once again become active members in their communities.
Surveys To Achieve Quality Of Life For Landmine Survivors, Reykhan Muminova
Surveys To Achieve Quality Of Life For Landmine Survivors, Reykhan Muminova
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Minefields along Tajikistan's borders with Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as centrally concentrated civil-war minefields continue to kill and injure Tajik citizens. Through victim-assistance projects, the Tajikistan Mine Action Centre hopes that all landmine survivors can be physically rehabilitated and socially and economically reintegrated into their communities.
Azerbaijan’S Landmine Victims: Realities And Challenges, Colin Bent, Hafiz Safikhanov
Azerbaijan’S Landmine Victims: Realities And Challenges, Colin Bent, Hafiz Safikhanov
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
The Azerbaijan Campaign to Ban Landmines (AzCBL) is a nongovernmental, apolitical, nonprofit organization that was founded in June 1998 in order to work toward a mine-free Azerbaijan. The authors describe how AzCBL and partner organizations are working to improve programs such as social welfare, career assistance, rights awareness, health care and psychological support for mine victims.
Project Documents Discrimination Against Persons With Disabilities, Julie Miller
Project Documents Discrimination Against Persons With Disabilities, Julie Miller
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
This article describes the beginning of the International Disability Rights Monitor and its advocacy for persons with disabilities. The author pays special attention to the passing of human rights laws for the disabled and future monitoring efforts to ensure that parties adhere to those laws.
Developing Medical Capacity In Lao Pdr, Barbara Lewis, Sarah Bruinooge
Developing Medical Capacity In Lao Pdr, Barbara Lewis, Sarah Bruinooge
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Prior to 1996, Laotian victims of unexploded ordnance were left with few options for medical treatment. Since that time, however, the inadequacy of the healthcare system to handle such situations has been addressed and improvements made possible through the efforts of the World Victims Assistance Program. Though UXO accidents will continue to occur in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic well into the future, the impact of programs implemented by World Education and numerous other nongovernmental organizations and government entities has contributed to a significant increase in the number of survivors who have received effective treatment.
Expanding Economic Opportunities In Lebanon, Toufic Rizkallah
Expanding Economic Opportunities In Lebanon, Toufic Rizkallah
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Following years of devastation from war, the infrastructure of the district of Jizzine in southern Lebanon was in shambles and the residents left without employment and dependent on agricultural products from outside the region. In February 2002, in an effort to re-establish self-sufficiency in the district, the World Rehabilitation Fund with support from the United States Agency for International Development and the Leahy War Victims Fund, formed The Development Cooperative in Jizzine (Co-op). By providing technical and material assistance to war/landmine victims, the Co-op has proven to be increasingly capable of addressing multiple socioeconomic needs of landmine survivors and other …
Empowering Iraqis: Rehabilitation Training In Bosnia, Nikola Prvulov, Julie Miller
Empowering Iraqis: Rehabilitation Training In Bosnia, Nikola Prvulov, Julie Miller
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
This article discusses the role that aid workers from Bosnia have had in training Iraqi medical personnel to treat war injuries. It stresses the role that nongovernmental organizations and intergovernmental organizations have had in supporting these efforts and how countries affected by unexploded ordnance and landmines have tried to share their experience with other countries in need of training and assistance.
Azerbaijan Mine Victim Association: The Story So Far, Nick Nwolisa
Azerbaijan Mine Victim Association: The Story So Far, Nick Nwolisa
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Due to years of conflict, Azerbaijan has become yet another territory contaminated with dangerous landmines and unexploded ordnance; however, the Azerbaijan Mine Victim Association, a nongovernmental organization which started in the Terter region of Azerbaijan, has been working hard to help assist mine victims. Their organization, a product of the International Eurasia Press Fund, has received international recognition by organizations such as the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and is continuing to provide mine-risk education and support for survivors and their families.
Adnan Al Aboudi And The Landmine Survivors Network Of Jordan, Cisr Journal
Adnan Al Aboudi And The Landmine Survivors Network Of Jordan, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Since a life-altering car accident left him permanently disabled in 1989, Adnan Al Aboudi has dedicated his life and career to victim assistance in mine action. Al Aboudi, along with his organization, Landmine Survivors Network–Jordan, has developed a unique humanistic approach to mine action. They focus on psychological as well as physical recovery for disabled victims of explosive remnants of war. Through his hard work and perseverance, Al Aboudi has raised national and international awareness of the importance of victim assistance in mine action.
Vocational Training And Wheelchairs, Huoy Socheat, Chin Yok
Vocational Training And Wheelchairs, Huoy Socheat, Chin Yok
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
This article talks about two associations that work together to improve the lives of mine survivors and other persons with disabilities in Cambodia by providing skills training, counseling and wheelchairs.
The Va Information System In Bih, Zoran Grujic
The Va Information System In Bih, Zoran Grujic
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Because of the conflict there in the 1990s, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has been plagued by landmines, unexploded ordnance, explosive remnants of war and all of the problems associated with them. With so many victims, the need for an organized system to help these people was imperative. In this article, the author describes how the Bosnia and Herzegovina Mine Action Center and other organisations helped establish an information system in BiH to help inform landmine victims about what they can do to help themselves and their families.
Connecting The Dots: The Ottawa Convention And The Ccm, Ken Rutherford, Nerina Čevra, Tracey Begley
Connecting The Dots: The Ottawa Convention And The Ccm, Ken Rutherford, Nerina Čevra, Tracey Begley
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions have refined the victim-assistance concepts found in the Ottawa Convention by defining victim assistance and clarifying VA obligations in the CCM. As the authors note, States Parties recognize that change can only be created through the people who implement it.
Transfer And Dissemination Of Appropriate Wheelchair Technology, William K. Smith, Nikola Prvulov, Kathryn Jackson
Transfer And Dissemination Of Appropriate Wheelchair Technology, William K. Smith, Nikola Prvulov, Kathryn Jackson
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Since 1996, the Center for International Rehabilitation has been dedicated to providing assistive devices to landmine victims. The CIR, in collaboration with Whirlwind Wheelchair International and the Afghan Ministry of Martyrs and Disabled, designed and distributed a centrally fabricated, locally-fitted wheelchair designed for post-conflict countries and tested it in Afghanistan and Jordan. The following discusses the outcome of that collaboration.
Victim Assistance In The World Today, Mike Boddington
Victim Assistance In The World Today, Mike Boddington
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
According to average budgets of the 2007 Portfolio of Mine Action Projects, victim-assistance programs are the third most-funded category after clearance and humanitarian mine-action program oversight. The author thinks the global mine-action community needs to reconsider how it handles victim assistance. This article outlines the qualities necessary for effective victim assistance and calls the community to action.