Mine Action Review hosts virtual event to launch its annual reports and discuss global progress in clearance of landmine and cluster munition remnants

Resolution 1325 was adopted by the UN Security Council on 31 October 2000. For the first time in UN history, the Security Council took a position on issues concerning women's roles and experiences in armed conflicts.

Side event at 18 MST MBT about how to measure mine action outcomes against the SDGs.

The solidarity caravan, Caravana Humanitaria, is a tradition in which organizations mobilize to shed light on the hardship, crisis and violence dominating in particularly vulnerable areas of the country - areas that in practice are stateless and are tyrannized by various armed groups. The aim of the caravan is to attract attention to the problems local communities face, and to demand that the authorities take responsibility for the safety of their inhabitants.

10 August 2020 marked an important date in Montenegrin history. 10 years to the day after the Convention on Cluster Munitions entered into force, Montenegro could proudly declare itself free of these deadly weapons.

Three years ago, a majority of the world's countries adopted the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, thus clearly stating that weapons designed for mass murder of civilians are unacceptable. Today, the nuclear ban has reached 50 ratifications. This means that in 90 days the agreement will become part of international law. In other words: Nuclear weapons are banned!

Virtual briefing by Mine Action Review on the key findings of the latest Clearing Cluster Munition Remnants 2020 and Clearing the Mines 2020 reports, and the Oslo Action Plan monitoring of survey and clearance indicators.

This week, representatives of NPA Worker’s Union in Vietnam visited families of staff members in Quang Tri and Thua Thien Hue Province who have been affected by the recent flooding. 

Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) is cooperating with local police and government in their investigation of the tragic event that occurred in Honiara, Solomon Islands on the 20th September at 6:40 PM local time.