The NukeEXPOs held on April 16 in Brussels, Belgium, and April 26 in Oslo, Norway, provided a unique opportunity to understand the human impacts and risks of nuclear weapons – combining interactive expert panels, virtual reality experiences, film, and informative exhibitions. The event was intended for policymakers, emergency responders, academia, civil society and the media.

Together with representatives from the Norwegian Embassy and the Vietnam National Mine Action Center (VNMAC), the Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) Vietnam Programme was honoured to receive a visit from Mr. Bård Vegar Solhjell, the Director General of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) on 10 June 2024 at VNMAC office.

-We have team members who have lost relatives over the weekend as well as family members seriously injured. The resilience of our colleagues on the ground is simply indescribable, says Flynn.

What do you do when the war puts restrictions on how you do your job? For project coordinator Esra Obaid in REFORM, with an office in the West Bank, she and her colleagues had to think in new ways. The answer was training volunteers who in turn teach other volunteers how to protect themselves from explosives - both when they rain down around you, but also what to do when you find them undetonated on the ground.

Mr Aksel Steen-Nilsen has been appointed as the Norwegian People's Aid's new Director of Humanitarian Mine Action and Disarmament.

War and conflict do not only harm civilians, but it also has a direct and indirect impact on the environment, ecosystems and livelihoods.

The Tahitian parliamentarian Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross, or Hina as friends call her, was seven years old when the last nuclear bomb was tested in French Polynesia in 1996. Well, test is a word Hina wouldn’t use. – It wasn’t tests; it was bombs. And France detonated a lot of them, 193 to be exact, from the 1960s to the 1990s.

On the 15th of April, one year will have passed since full scale civil war broke out in Sudan. The situation is beyond dire, over 8 million people are displaced from their homes and the UN recently warned that the population is facing catastrophic hunger. The hope of a democratic Sudan now seems far away, and the country is a glaring example of how fragile democratic transitional periods can be after a peaceful people led revolution.

In Zimbabwe, the Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) stands at the forefront of championing gender inclusion in Mine Action. Through the bold employment and empowerment of women across diverse roles, NPA Zimbabwe has shattered the misconception that demining is solely a man's domain.