by CLMF | Sep 15, 2018 | Foundation News, Mine Action News, Podcasts
Episode 3 is out now! Is the cost of demining greater or lesser than the economic benefit? Should we even ask that question? Is the Landmine Ban Treaty’s requirement that all known minefields be removed actually hurting the efficiency of global mine action, and...
by CLMF | Sep 11, 2018 | Foundation News, Mine Action News
“The signing of the Ottawa treaty was one of the highlights of my career at the United Nations … The determination of the States parties has made the Ottawa Treaty one of the great successes of international diplomacy.” Kofi Annan, March 2, 2016. Kofi Annan, former UN...
by CLMF | Aug 7, 2018 | Foundation News, Mine Action News, Podcasts
Episode Two of The Defuser is out now! Last year, Dr. Timothy Donais led a field school from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario to Bosnia & Herzegovina. There, students traced the roots of the 1992-1995 conflict that followed the disintegration of...
by CLMF | Jul 27, 2018 | Mine Action News
Major flooding in Laos and Cambodia in the last few weeks has led to increased risk from landmines and Explosive Remnants of War (ERWs) in the region. Heavy rainfall in Laos led to the collapse of a large hydro-power dam in Attapeu province on July 24, forcing the...
by CLMF | Jul 17, 2018 | Foundation News, Mine Action News
The Canadian House of Commons passed Bill C-47 in June after much debate, bringing Canada one step closer to acceding to the UN Arms Trade Treaty. The Treaty, signed in 2014, is the first legally-binding international mechanism regulating the trade in conventional...
by CLMF | Jul 6, 2018 | Foundation News, Mine Action News, Podcasts, Uncategorized
The Canadian Landmine Foundation is starting a new monthly podcast! Search ‘The Defuser” on iTunes or the Google Play store, or listen to it below! Demining technologies have come a long way in the past few decades, and so has the CLMF. On The Defuser...
