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Armed Violence and Stabilisation in Western Equatoria

Displaced in South Sudan suffer from aftermath of LRA violence

A new report conducted by DRC/DDG in South Sudan shows that the population is still suffering from widespread and enduring social trauma as a result of Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) violence, even though the militant group has disappeared from the country.

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Mine Action and Armed Violence Reduction: Uganda Case Study - September 2012

INTRODUCTION

As a result of armed conflict and civil strife over the past two decades, the north and west of Uganda were contaminated by mines/ERW, particularly along the country’s borders with South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since 2007, Danish Demining Group (DDG) has implemented a mine/ERW clearance programme in Uganda in association with the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF – Ugandan military) and the Uganda Police Force (UPF).

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Mine Action and Armed Violence Reduction: Somaliland Case Study - September 2012

INTRODUCTION

Danish Demining Group (DDG) first started mine clearance operations in Somaliland in 1999, to reduce the impact of mines and Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) on affected communities. Between 1999 and 2008, DDG cleared approximately 1,400 km2 of land and destroyed 91,000 items of Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) and 10,000 mines.1 In 2006,

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Uganda free of landmines – a milestone accomplishment

On December 10th 2012, Uganda is officially declared free of landmines at a ceremony in the capital of Kampala. The achievement is the result of dedicated work by the National Mine Action Programme in Uganda in collaboration with Danish Demining Group (DDG), the humanitarian mine action unit of the Danish Refugee Council.

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Armed Violence Reduction Framework - Version 3, June 2012

  1. Introduction

1.1 The Global Burden of Armed Violence

According to the Geneva Declaration Secretariat, at least 526,000 people die each year as a direct result of armed violence. In addition, hundreds of thousands of people die of non-violent causes directly resulting from armed violence. The cost incurred by homicidal violence is estimated at between 95 and 163 billion USD each year and developing countries spend an average of 10-15 per cent of their GDP on law enforcement.

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Teaching Somali children to avoid new dangers of war

Educating children and their mothers in Somalia on how to identify and manage threats from unexploded ordnance explosive devices has become increasingly important as the Al Shabaab movement has changes its strategies towards militia warfare using improvised explosive devices. The mine action unit within the Danish Refugee Council aims to reach 225,000 children during this and next year teaching them how to avoid the danger of explosives.

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Somalia bans antipersonnel landmines

The Trans Federal Government in Somalia has decided to join the Mine Ban Treaty of the United Nations. The mine action unit within the Danish Refugee Council recognizes and supports the development.

Somalia is one of the regions in Africa most contaminated by mines. As the last African country to officially ban use of landmines, Somalia has now agreed to destroy all stockpiles no later than 1 October 2016 and to clear all contaminated land no later than 1 October 2022.

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Being safe - is being home

Danish Demining Group is building safe living environments for local farmers in southern Iraq.

By Mikkel Nedergaard Impact Monitoring Adviser Danish Demining Group

"I might be a hundred years old, I am not completely sure’," Al Amaly says with a smile. She looks a lot younger standing in front of her house with her four children one morning in March. Al Amaly lives with her family on rented land in Al Zubair district outside Basra city in southern Iraq.

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60.000 square-meters of future

30 years of war and conflict has left villages north of the Bagram air-strip contaminated with landmines and explosive remnants of war. Since March 2011 the Danish Demining Group have cleared almost 60.000 square-meters of land in order to give the local communities the chance of a new beginning.

Interviews conducted on the 14th of March 2011 by: Mahmmad Atef Central area field officer, Bagram district DDG Afghanistan. Story told by: Mahmmad Tahir, Operation Officer, HQ Kabul DDG, Afghanistan.

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Humanitarian Accountability Framework (HAF) DDG Afghanistan, January, 2012

  1. Afghan context

Afghanistan remains one of the countries most contaminated by landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW), mainly the result of the 1992–1996 internal armed conflict and the decade‐long war of resistance that followed the Soviet invasion of 1979. The United States‐led coalition’s intervention in late 2001 added considerable quantities of unexploded ordnance (UXO) to the problem, including (cluster) sub‐munitions, and this was followed by further mine use by Non‐State Armed Groups (NSAGs).

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Local Humanitarian Accountability Framework (HAF) DDG Somalia, October, 2011

  1. DDG’s objectives, partners and stakeholders in the Area of Operation DDG has been working in Somalia since 2009.

Strategic Objectives:

  • To reduce the threat caused by landmines and ERW in Puntland, Galmudug and SC Somalia with an efficient, effective and flexible DDG mine action capacity.

  • To enhance human security and community safety in Puntland, Galmudug and SC Somalia through the implementation of armed violence reduction (AVR) initiatives.

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Kidnapped aid workers rescued in Somalia

The Danish Refugee Council hereby confirms that Jessica Buchanan and Poul Hagen Thisted have been rescued earlier today during an operation in Somalia. American Jessica Buchanan and Poul Hagen Thisted from Denmark are on their way to be reunited with their families.

After being held hostage for three months American citizen Jessica Buchanan and Poul Hagen Thisted from Denmark have today successfully been rescued from their kidnappers in Somalia.

The two aid workers from the Danish Refugee Council’s demining unit, DDG, are both unharmed and at a safe location.

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Humanitarian Accountability Framework, October 2011

Brief description of the country programme

Due to a vigorous government campaign and with international assistance to return IDPs as quickly as possible, the camps that were housing as many as 300,000 IDP are now closing down. However, many of the returnees are still unable to return to their homes due to the threat of mine and UXO contamination. Instead, many are now hosted by family or in social institutions in their home area.

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Humanitarian Accountability Framework, October 2011

  1. DDG Uganda objectives, partners and stakeholders
  • Strategic objective:

To build national capacities towards development of an environment free of threat of explosive remnants of war (ERW) and armed violence, where people of Uganda can live safely and have access to land and natural resources, in the process assisting the government in their efforts of becoming compliant with the International Mine Ban Treaty.

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Humanitarian Accountability Framework, November 2011

  1. DDG South Sudan’s objectives, partners and stakeholders
  • Strategic Objectives: The provision of a safe environment for returnees and host communities which will support recovery from conflict in South Sudan.

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Update on Somalian kidnapping

During the past few days, Danish and international media have published the names of the two kidnapped staff members of the Danish Refugee Council’s demining unit in Somalia.

The Danish Refugee Council has confirmed the names of the two employees, while at the same time, strongly encouraging media to showing respect, and restraint and to understand the need for confidentiality as investigations are ongoing.

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Staff members kidnapped

25.10.11

Today, three staff members from the Danish Refugee Council were kidnapped by Somalian gunmen in the northern Somalia.

At 3:00 p.m. the three staff members from the Danish Refugee Council’s demining unit, Danish Demining Group, were kidnapped in northern Somalia, Galkayo. One is a Somali man, two are international staff members, an American woman and a Danish man.

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Somalia: Working in High-risk Environment and Fragile States

As the security situation continues to deteriorate in Somalia, humanitarian organizations are finding it increasingly difficult to achieve their desired results. Working conditions for these organizations in Somalia are particularly harsh, even when compared to those in other developing countries. Humanitarian-aid workers must accept these risks as a fundamental requirement of their involvement, and donors must be prepared to take more chances in these environments as well.

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The stabilisation of Somalia begins in the villages

International efforts in the so-called fragile states are changing. From being characterised by a line of single components, the debate is now focused on joined intervention and an integrated approach to create safety and development. For the Danish Demining Group and the Danish Refugee Council, stabilisation begins with creating safety in the villages of Somalia.

By Klaus Ljoerring Pedersen Regional director, Danish Demining Group (DDG), Horn of Africa