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Zimbabwe National Mine Action Strategy 2018-2025, Mine Action Centre Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe National Mine Action Strategy 2018-2025, Mine Action Centre Zimbabwe
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This National Mine Action Strategy, the first of its kind in Zimbabwe, presents the overall vision, mission, goals and objectives of Zimbabwe’s mine action programme for the period 2018-2025. The strategy’s timeline corresponds to Zimbabwe’s Article 5 Extension Request, submitted in March 2017 and its end state is the completion of clearance obligations under Article 5 of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC).
Its vision is for a mine/ERW-free Zimbabwe where women, girls, boys and men safely engage in sustainable livelihood activities and where mine/ERW victims are fully integrated into society. While its mission is to develop a sustainable national …
Itf Enhancing Human Security Annual Report 2018, Itf-Enhancy Human Security
Itf Enhancing Human Security Annual Report 2018, Itf-Enhancy Human Security
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The goal of the Mine Ban Treaty (1997) can’t be clearer: a landmine free world and a safe environment for generations to come. But more than two decades after international community agreed to firm norms and objectives that were achieved through the Ottawa Treaty process, landmines and other explosive remnants of war still indiscriminately impact human victims, often years and decades after the end of armed conflicts. As of November 2018, sixty states and areas remain contaminated by antipersonnel mines, with worrying numbers of civilian casualties, especially children.
Everyday life near contaminated areas is harsh and uncertain. People often knowingly …