Posts Tagged ‘ MAG ’

The beginning of 2010 was marred by acts of violence that claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians, mainly in Baghdad, the central governorates and Najaf. In Mosul, families fled violence and sought refuge in safer areas. Although recent violence-related displacement has been sporadic, there remain some 2.8 million internally displaced people (IDPs) in...
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Cluster munitions Cluster bombs, or cluster munitions, are weapons which can be dropped from the air or fired from the ground. They release numerous explosive fragments – bomblets, or submunitions. Bomblets which fail to explode on impact pose the threat of death or injury long after conflict is over. Their presence means a...
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Members of MAG Iraq’s Community Liaison team have trained Iraqi charities and youth workers on the dangers of guns, under a new UNICEF-supported project aimed at preventing needless child deaths. Related article Living with the threat of unexploded ordnance and landmines Links: UNICEF website Donate to MAG online – more than 90 per cent of MAG’s...
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As the Army mourns the death of another bomb disposal specialist, what does it take to do this perilous job?  There is a fundamental principle in the bomb disposal game: never send a person to do a robot’s job. But in the theatre of war, the use of remote systems to shoot and destroy a...
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Source: MAG (Mines Advisory Group) Website: http://www.maginternational.org/iraq Download the full report in PDF format. The programme continued to reduce risk to vulnerable communities and support conflict recovery and rehabilitation by implementing Humanitarian Mine Action and Conventional Weapons Destruction projects in Dahuk, Diyala, Erbil, Kirkuk, Ninewah, and Sulimaniyah governorates: - MAG teams searched and cleared 491,694 square...
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The ICRC remained concerned about indiscriminate attacks as civilian lives continued to be claimed in incidents in Baghdad, Ninewa, Mosul, North Diyala, Anbar and Kirkuk. It provided support for emergency medical care and maintained a range of activities benefiting the civilian population. The month of April saw an increase in bomb attacks and other security...
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تمكنت منظمة بريطانية مختصة بإزالة الألغام من إزالة اكثر من سبعمائة موقع يحوي الغاما خطرة في أقليم كردستان العراق. وأكدت مديرة الإتصال بالمجتمع في منظمة MAG المختصة بإزالة الالغام في إقليم كردستان العراق (أتور هادو) في تصريح صحفي أن المنظمة تمكنت منذ عام 1992 من إزالة الالغام في أكثر من 700 حقل للألغام في...
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