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... surveys in Chad and Yemen clearly indicated that lands posing the greatest risk of casualties and the most economic ... survey efforts. PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS The costs of removing millions of landmines around the world are ...
... surveys in Chad and Yemen clearly indicated that lands posing the greatest risk of casualties and the most economic ... survey efforts. PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS The costs of removing millions of landmines around the world are ...
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... surveys. We must also make sure that surveillance data are collected in a consistent manner that will allow ... survey design, surveillance, program evaluation, use of data for decision making, and data presentation. The ...
... surveys. We must also make sure that surveillance data are collected in a consistent manner that will allow ... survey design, surveillance, program evaluation, use of data for decision making, and data presentation. The ...
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... surveys help to identify commercially available items for landmine detection, landmine and vegetation clearance, neutralization, and individual protection. Once built, the prototypes undergo developmental testing to ensure that all ...
... surveys help to identify commercially available items for landmine detection, landmine and vegetation clearance, neutralization, and individual protection. Once built, the prototypes undergo developmental testing to ensure that all ...
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... in Afghanistan. This assistance has paid for mine-risk education programs, minefield surveys and markings, AN ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE CAMBODIA: 23 COUNTRY REPORTS AFGHANISTAN: A MODEL FOR HUMANITARIAN MINE ACTION.
... in Afghanistan. This assistance has paid for mine-risk education programs, minefield surveys and markings, AN ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE CAMBODIA: 23 COUNTRY REPORTS AFGHANISTAN: A MODEL FOR HUMANITARIAN MINE ACTION.
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... surveys. The U.S.-funded heavy equipment, including tractors, vegetation-cutters, and mini-flails, continues to assist deminers greatly, accelerating the pace of their activities by as much as 60 percent. A primary goal of the U.S. ...
... surveys. The U.S.-funded heavy equipment, including tractors, vegetation-cutters, and mini-flails, continues to assist deminers greatly, accelerating the pace of their activities by as much as 60 percent. A primary goal of the U.S. ...
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action community action programs Action Service Afghanistan Agency for International AGENDA AN ELECTRONIC amputee Antipersonnel areas Cambodia casualties civilian clearance operations CMAC contamination coordination countermine country’s detecting dogs detection disabilities donor economic ELECTRONIC JOURNAL epidemiology equipment evaluation FOREIGN POLICY AGENDA fragmentation mines GICHD global HALO Trust health condition heavily mined helping survivors Humanitarian Demining Program humanitarian mine action implementation internally displaced persons issues JANUARY landmine and UXO LANDMINE PROBLEM Landmine Survivors Network landmine victims landmines and unexploded Leahy War Victims LWVF MAPA million mine-affected mine-risk education programs minefields Mozambique NGOs non-governmental organizations number of landmine percent persistent landmines populations prosthetics provinces public health public-private partnerships R&D Program Office rehabilitation risk education square meters surveys survivor assistance threat tripwires U.S. Agency U.S. Department U.S. FOREIGN POLICY U.S. government U.S. HUMANITARIAN unexploded ordnance UXO United Nations USAID UXO injuries Victims Fund VOLUME 9 worldwide Zambezia Provinces
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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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