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The United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) audit finds UNMAS successful in implementing procedures for planning, monitoring and supervising mine action activities, as well as controls for coordinating…

Mr Hervé Ladsous, the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, and Ms. Marie-Noelle Koara, the Minister of Defence of the Central African Republic, inaugurated the construction of the Camp Kassai Central Armoury…

GLOBAL Secretary-General's Message for 2015 - International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action [Video] [UN] Today we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance…

In 2013 UNMAS-DRC provided, through its programme, risk education to more than 218,000 Congolese. One of the most important groups that UNMAS targets is young people. This is an enormous task. To address it, UNMAS-DRC, in…

[UNMAS Officer Ole Feurer handing over of certificate to one of the course participants. Photo: UNMAS DRC] On 18 April 2014, the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) together with the National Armed Forces of DRC (FARDC…

(Photo: Ulrich Tietze) An estimated of 11,000 Colombians participated in the "Lend Your Leg 11k" race in Cali and Medellín, on April the 6th, and in Bogotá en Ibagué, on Sunday 13th April 2014, to call for an end to the use…

4 April 2014 - The UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) had adapted its programme in South Sudan to respond to evolving needs during the current crisis, the organization’s programme manager, Lance Malin, said today in a statement…

(Juba, South Sudan, 3 December 2013) An exhibition match to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities was hosted by the South Sudan Wheelchair Basketball Association, in collaboration with UNMAS on 3 rd December…

Mine Clearance Efforts Shift from Humanitarian Focus to Socio-Economic Impact on Affected Communities, Joint Inspection Unit Reports in Briefing (New York, NY 1 November 2013) Remarkable recent achievements in mine action…

(October, Afghanistan) Kandahar Province, one of the most rugged, rural areas of Afghanistan, is also one of the country’s most mine-contaminated areas. UNMAS estimates that nearly 26,000 inhabitants of Kandahar Province live…

(24 October 2013, Kinshasa, DRC) UN Day celebrates the anniversary of the entry into force in 1945 of the UN Charter. With the ratification of this founding document by the majority of its signatories, including the five…

18 September 2013, Colombia Colombia: Civilian humanitarian demining has officially begun in Colombia. Deminers employed by The HALO Trust, an implementing partner of UNMAS, started work in Southeast Antioquia on Wednesday…