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Farid was walking with his father to the market when the explosion hit. “First it felt like an earthquake, and then came the loud sound of the blast,” he said. I held my ears because of the noise. A wall from the military…
[La Cité] Agnès Marcaillou, directrice de l’UNMAS, le Service de l’action anti-mines des Nations Unies, explique la pertinence du travail de son organisation et de son évolution à une époque où les civils sont de plus en plus…
London - Christie's, EON Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment present a rare opportunity to acquire memorabilia from the 24th film in the James Bond series this February to…
The United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) audit finds UNMAS successful in implementing procedures for planning, monitoring and supervising mine action activities, as well as controls for coordinating…
Mr Hervé Ladsous, the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, and Ms. Marie-Noelle Koara, the Minister of Defence of the Central African Republic, inaugurated the construction of the Camp Kassai Central Armoury…
GLOBAL Secretary-General's Message for 2015 - International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action [Video] [UN] Today we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance…
In 2013 UNMAS-DRC provided, through its programme, risk education to more than 218,000 Congolese. One of the most important groups that UNMAS targets is young people. This is an enormous task. To address it, UNMAS-DRC, in…
[UNMAS Officer Ole Feurer handing over of certificate to one of the course participants. Photo: UNMAS DRC] On 18 April 2014, the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) together with the National Armed Forces of DRC (FARDC…
(Photo: Ulrich Tietze) An estimated of 11,000 Colombians participated in the "Lend Your Leg 11k" race in Cali and Medellín, on April the 6th, and in Bogotá en Ibagué, on Sunday 13th April 2014, to call for an end to the use…
4 April 2014 - The UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) had adapted its programme in South Sudan to respond to evolving needs during the current crisis, the organization’s programme manager, Lance Malin, said today in a statement…
(Juba, South Sudan, 3 December 2013) An exhibition match to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities was hosted by the South Sudan Wheelchair Basketball Association, in collaboration with UNMAS on 3 rd December…
Mine Clearance Efforts Shift from Humanitarian Focus to Socio-Economic Impact on Affected Communities, Joint Inspection Unit Reports in Briefing (New York, NY 1 November 2013) Remarkable recent achievements in mine action…