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A wide range of demining technologies and methods have become available, including mine resistant vegetation clearance vehicles, improved personal protective equipment, and teams of mine detecting dogs and trained handlers, resulting in ...
A wide range of demining technologies and methods have become available, including mine resistant vegetation clearance vehicles, improved personal protective equipment, and teams of mine detecting dogs and trained handlers, resulting in ...
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training of deminers, mine clearance, survivors' assistance, equipment, and mine-detection dogs. Afghanistan is currently the largest recipient of U.S. government mine action assistance in the world. In fiscal year 2003 (FY03), ...
training of deminers, mine clearance, survivors' assistance, equipment, and mine-detection dogs. Afghanistan is currently the largest recipient of U.S. government mine action assistance in the world. In fiscal year 2003 (FY03), ...
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... to include the donation of mine detecting dogs to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)/Accelerated Demining Program (ADP); equipment and training for the National Demining Institute (IND) Headquarters staff, and HALO Trust ...
... to include the donation of mine detecting dogs to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)/Accelerated Demining Program (ADP); equipment and training for the National Demining Institute (IND) Headquarters staff, and HALO Trust ...
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The QRDF currently consists of four squads of 10 deminers each and eight mine detection dogs. All demining personnel are Mozambicans who keep their professional skills well honed in demining their homeland between emergency deployments ...
The QRDF currently consists of four squads of 10 deminers each and eight mine detection dogs. All demining personnel are Mozambicans who keep their professional skills well honed in demining their homeland between emergency deployments ...
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They will progressively cover areas of mine action not previously addressed such as mine risk education, mechanical clearance, and dog detection of mines. THE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR MINE ACTION AND THE ELECTRONIC MINE ...
They will progressively cover areas of mine action not previously addressed such as mine risk education, mechanical clearance, and dog detection of mines. THE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR MINE ACTION AND THE ELECTRONIC MINE ...
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Page 18 - Victims" means persons who, individually or collectively, have suffered harm, including physical or mental injury, emotional suffering, economic loss or substantial impairment of their fundamental rights, through acts or omissions that are in violation of criminal laws operative within Member States, including those laws proscribing criminal abuse of power.
Page 14 - To this end, the study is sponsored jointly by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (OASD/SO/LIC) and the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs (DOS/R).
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Page 12 - Public health agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO...
Page 32 - US Department of State, To Walk the Earth in Safety: The United States Commitment to Humanitarian Demining, Washington, DC: US Department of State, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, 2001.
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Page 14 - Defense will undertake a substantial programme to develop improved mine detection and clearing technology and to share this improved technology with the broader international community.
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