4 December 2025: One year since the fall of the Assad regime on 8 December 2024, The HALO Trust warns that at least 1,600 civilians have been killed or injured by unexploded bombs in Syria, including...
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Children Now Nearly Half of All Landmine Victims as Global Casualties Reach Four-Year High
Peaking at the highest level in four years, there were 6,279 recorded casualties in 2024, with civilians making up 90% of all casualties caused by landmines and deadly explosive remnants of war.
HALO is sending 100 bomb disposal experts to Gaza
WHO: James Cowan, CEO the HALO Trust or Andrew Moore, Middle East Director, recently returned from Gaza. WHAT: Unexploded ordnance and reconstruction of Gaza WHEN: Available for down the line...
Mozambique Marks a Decade Free of Landmines
September 17, 2025 – In the week in which Mozambique marks a decade since it was declared landmine free, the HALO Trust is urging the international community to support other mine-affected countries...
HALO Global Strategy (2025 - 2028)
HALO Launches Bold New Strategy to Tackle the Impact of War as Cost of Global Conflict Reaches $20 trillion London, UK – The HALO Trust, the world’s leading humanitarian weapon clearance charity, has...
NGOs statement on rising civilian casualties in Ukraine: stop bombing civilians
After three year and a half of intense fighting since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, civilians are still heavily suffering. We, members of the NGO community in Ukraine, are gravely concerned by...
Syrian landmine casualties set to spiral as school year ends
20 June 2025: The HALO Trust warns that the end of the school year in the Middle East in late June will see a significant spike in fatalities and injuries as hundreds of thousands of families return...
300,000 landmines cleared in Sri Lanka
The civil war in Sri Lanka was a bloody conflict lasting almost three decades. Yet for the 2m tourists who holiday in the south of the island nation every year, there is scant evidence of the huge...
One in five Afghans at risk of landmines and explosives
10 June 2025: A new report by The HALO Trust says at least 6.4m Afghans are at risk of unexploded ordnance, with children accounting for 80 per cent of blast fatalities and injuries. HALO, the...
Ukraine: NGOs' statement on the devastating consequences of constant bombing and shelling on civilians
As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth year since the full-scale invasion in February 2022, civilians continue to pay the higher price. The ongoing ceasefire talks illustrate the absence of...
Faster, safer land mine clearance to counter new age of minelaying
Kyiv, April 4: Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has caused a ‘new age of minelaying’, the world’s largest civilian demining organisation said today - but it has also ushered in big...
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€5m German boost for HALO landmine clearance in Syria
HALO's programme will expand to save lives across the country in response to soaring accidents caused by explosives The German Federal Foreign Office (GFFO) supports the HALO Trust in Syria with a...
One million returning Syrians at risk from unexploded bombs
Saturday, 8 March, 2025: Three months since the fall of the Assad regime on December 8, 2024, the UN reports that more than one million Syrians have returned to their homes. But they have found their...
Clearing the Path: How technology is changing mine action in Ukraine
Three years of war makes Ukraine one of world’s most mined countries The HALO Trust has warned that Ukraine has become one of the most severely mined countries on earth, as Kyiv commemorates three...
Ukraine's landmines need to be cleared before minerals can be mined
MUNICH, Sunday 16 February 2025: Major General James Cowan, CEO of the landmine charity The HALO Trust, has told the Munich Security Conference that any deal between Ukraine and the US that allows...
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Ukraine's minefields must be a priority at Munich meeting
MUNICH, Friday 14 February 2025: Clearing the deadly debris of war should be a key goal of delegates at the Munich Security Conference, the head of the world's largest landmine clearance charity, The...
Syria landmine crisis spirals as millions begin to return home
In the past week, 39 adults and eight children have lost their lives to accidents involving landmines and other explosive debris. The total number of civilians killed or injured since December 2024 is now well over 400.
Gaza Debris Management Framework - Version 6 of 29th January 2025
The enormous quantities of debris generated by the war on Gaza and use of explosive weapons in the Gaza Strip pose significant risks to human health and the natural environment. The amount of debris...
Legacy of Syrian war still causing mass death and injury, says landmine clearance charity
Thursday 9 January 2025: At least 80 civilians, including 12 children, have been killed by landmines and other explosive debris of war in the month since the Syrian strongman Bashar Al-Assad was...
Game-changing mine detector could speed up landmine clearance by 30 per cent - Saving tens of thousands of lives
An innovative new landmine detector from Australia may help to save tens of thousands of lives every year, according to the world’s largest landmine clearance charity The HALO Trust. Initial trials...