Demining Workshop Helps Families in Afghanistan Return Home Safely

Jul 3, 2017 | Amy OHalloran

People in many communities across Afghanistan face daily dangers from landmines and unexploded ordnance that remain behind as a deadly legacy of over four decades of conflict. As many as 150 people are maimed or killed by such munitions in Afghanistan each month. As Afghanistan strives to reach its goal of clearing the country’s known minefields by 2023 despite ongoing conflicts, a recent international conference called for a focused, team-oriented approach essential to realizing this ambitious goal.

The Afghanistan Donor and Implementing Partners Coordination Workshop for Mine Action, jointly hosted by the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement and the Afghanistan Ministry for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Affairs with the support of the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) on March 27, 2017, was one step in this direction.