Mines Advisory Group (MAG) teams working for United Nations World Food Programme (UN WFP) have surveyed and cleared over 240km of road between Wau and Abyei. The road is now being built and will open...

MAG (Mines Advisory Group) trainee clearing UXO (unexploded ordinance).

Public education poster warning of the dangers of UXO (unexploded ordinance) and mines.

Sikna (foreground) and her sister pick okra from their field cleared of cluster bombs by MAG (Mines Advisory Group) teams. "When I came back after the war I was very afraid" Sikna said, "I had lost my...

De-mining workers return after clearing through the orange groves near Tyre.

MAG (Mines Advisory Group) Technicians attending their morning briefing before starting work ridding the land of cluster bombs.

Villagers working in a banana plantation recently cleared by MAG (Mines Advisory Group) teams.

High in the mountains a deadly legacy of the Iran/Iraq war hides amongst the wild flowers and long grass. The spiky crowns of the deadly Valmara landmines are hard to see. The slightest nudge of one s...

Landmines and unexploded ordnances are destroyed.

Ismail Mustafa lost both his legs to a landmine and his daughter lost an arm and an eye when she picked up an unexploded bomb. MAG (Mines Advisory Group) has now cleared his land and he is very gratef...

Children take a MAG (Mines Advisory Group) Community Liaison team to a site where they have seen what they think to be dangerous items. The items turned out to be BLU 97 cluster bombs. Ator, the Commu...

Landmine victim who is an amputee now trained to defuse mines with MAG (Mines Advisory Group).

MAG (Mines Advisory Group) community Liaison staff talk to a group of Iraqi Kurds in the Sheladaz camp for displaced persons. The camp is situated close to a minefield and the staff at MAG are at the...

Part of an exploded ordnance.

Preparing VS69 Valmara and VS50 landmines for demolition.

De-miners setting up their detectors at the beginning of the working day in Kany Hanjeera.

MAG (Mines Advisory Group) community Liaison staff talk to a group of Iraqi Kurds in the Sheladaz camp for displaced persons. The camp is situated close to a minefield and the staff at MAG are at the...

17 year old Rasha with her mother and sister. She was lying on the sofa when her little sister brought in a bag of thyme her father had just harvested from their field. Inside the bag was an unexplode...

After inserting a special pin to stop the mine detonating, de-mining team leader Salahaddin Mahamad carefully lifts the crown out of the body of a Valmara mine. The spiky crowns of the deadly Valmara...

Khalil Aziz, a MAG (Mines Advisory Group) technical supervisor, takes away a projectile found close to a house.

De-miners take a rest close to the area where defused landmines are kept before they are destroyed.

De-miners set up their detectors as they prepare to start their day working near Gir Smaeel village. They are clearing land desperately needed for agriculture.

The village Mayor Abdula Khan, left, and Mullah Kadar Abdulla Mala stand by their newly completed irrigation canal. "It is great that MAG (Mines Advisory Group) has come back to help us. We need more...

17 year old Rasha was lying on the sofa when her little sister brought in a bag of thyme her father had just harvested from their field. Inside the bag was an unexploded ordnance. When Rasha reached i...

A MAG (Mines Advisory Group) technician supervises the work of two Armtracs as they use rollers to verify that the land is clear of mines.

A de-miner working with his detector near Gir Smaeel village. They are clearing land desperately needed for agriculture.

Landmines and unexploded ordnances are destroyed.

Sikna (foreground) and her sister pick okra from their field cleared of cluster bombs by MAG (Mines Advisory Group) teams. "When I came back after the war I was very afraid" Sikna said, "I had lost my...

De-mining workers clearing through the orange groves near Tyre.

17 year old Rasha was lying on the sofa when her little sister brought in a bag of thyme her father had just harvested from their field. Inside the bag was an unexploded ordnance. When Rasha reached i...

After inserting a special pin to stop the mine detonating, team leader Salahaddin Mahamad carefully lifts the crown out of the body of a Valmara mine. The spiky crowns of the deadly Valmara landmines...

Landmine victim dying cloth at a factory that offers employment to those disabled by landmines.

MAG (Mines Advisory Group) Community Liaison officer Vadar has come here to provide mine risk education to Iraqi Kurdish children displaced from Mosul and Baghdad. "It is important that all the displ...

One of many roads that are impassable in the wet season. The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) is working with United Nations World Food Programme (UN WFP) to survey and clear roads of landmines and unexplod...

A landmine victim at the army rehabilitation centre in Ankara. Eastern Turkey is blighted by landmines. During the 1950s, the cause was illegal border trading; in the 1990s, the cause was war with the...

Doctors treat a patient at the army rehabilitation centre in Ankara. Eastern Turkey is blighted by landmines. During the 1950s, the cause was illegal border trading; in the 1990s, the cause was war wi...

A Kurdish village on the Turkish-Syrian border. Eastern Turkey is blighted by landmines. During the 1950s, the cause was illegal border trading; in the 1990s, the cause was war with the PKK (Kurdistan...

A Kurdish village on the Turkish-Syrian border. Eastern Turkey is blighted by landmines. During the 1950s, the cause was illegal border trading; in the 1990s, the cause was war with the PKK (Kurdistan...

A man who lost his foot in a landmine accident rides his donkey through a Kurdish village on the Turkish-Syrian border. Eastern Turkey is blighted by landmines. During the 1950s, the cause was illegal...

Army rehabilitation centre for people injured by landmines. Eastern Turkey is blighted by landmines. During the 1950s, the cause was illegal border trading; in the 1990s, the cause was war with the PK...

A man injured by a landmine at the army rehabilitation centre in Ankara. Eastern Turkey is blighted by landmines. During the 1950s, the cause was illegal border trading; in the 1990s, the cause was wa...

A Kurdish boy who was injured by a landmine. Eastern Turkey is blighted by landmines. During the 1950s, the cause was illegal border trading; in the 1990s, the cause was war with the PKK (Kurdistan Wo...

Ex-soldier at Ankara's army rehabilitation centre for people injured by landmines. Eastern Turkey is blighted by landmines. During the 1950s, the cause was illegal border trading; in the 1990s, the ca...

Army rehabilitation centre for people injured by landmines. Eastern Turkey is blighted by landmines. During the 1950s, the cause was illegal border trading; in the 1990s, the cause was war with the PK...

The Turkish amputee football team, training in Ankara. Eastern Turkey is blighted by landmines. During the 1950s, the cause was illegal border trading; in the 1990s, the cause was war with the PKK (Ku...

The Turkish amputee football team, training in Ankara. The Eastern Turkey is blighted by landmines. During the 1950s, the cause was illegal border trading; in the 1990s, the cause was war with the PKK...

A man who lost his legs in a landmine explosion training with weights at the army rehabilitation centre in Ankara. Eastern Turkey is blighted by landmines. During the 1950s, the cause was illegal bord...

27 year old Tha Heh: "I arrived in this camp in 1985 with my family. The Burmese army forced my mother into slavery. She had to walk in front of the troops. In this way, they would not be killed if th...

31 year old Pahgo: "I was in the KNLA (Karen National Liberation Army) and we were attacked by the Burmese army. We had to lay out landmines for protection. After the fighting, I started to remove the...

A health centre for people injured through conflict and landmines in the Mae La refugee camp. The Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) are fighting for their own land inside Burma (Myanmar) against t...

A danger sign warning of mines is attached to a barbed wire fence in the Jordan Valley. The Jordan River area is highly militarised and protected by mine fields.

A portrait of a 50-year-old Karen farmer. This man lost his leg after standing on a Burma Army landmine that had been planted in his rice fields. The farmer had to travel to Thailand to receive free t...

Amputees, all refugees from Burma, at a workshop making artificial limbs for themselves. All but the man on the crutch were Karenni combatants and some lost limbs after standing on mines laid by Karen...

Two Karen men in the process of building a new wood and bamboo house in an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Kaw Thoo Lei - the Karen State of Burma. The Burma Army have burnt down other IDP...

A Karenni Army soldier priming a claymore mine shortly before the second battle for Ember Hill. It was estimated later that over 300 Burma Army soldiers lost their lives during the two battles that di...

An All Burma Students' Democratic Front (ABSDF) combatant recovering at Mae Tao clinic. Shot through the thigh in a firefight with Burma Army troops several years previously, he had been given reargua...

Burma Army soldiers captured when Karenni forces overran their outposts close to the Thai frontier. Twenty seven Burma Army soldiers were captured. Thirteen survived. Of those, four decided to join th...

Karenni Army soldiers passing through a minefield while patrolling through jungle close to the Thai-Burmese border. The Karenni people have been resisting Burma Army forces since the nominally indepen...

An All Burma Students' Democratic Front (ABSDF) combatant recovering at Mae Tao clinic in Thailand after a homemade landmine that he was planting exploded prematurely. The landmine caused irreparable...

A patient, who was injured by a landmine, fits a prosthetic leg in a rehabilitation centre.

A man, who was injured by a landmine, with a prosthetic leg rests on the ground.

Amputees are fitted with limbs in Mae Tao clinic on the Thai-Burma border. Landmines are used by all sides in the conflict. The Burma Army places mines in areas of their operations to prevent civilian...

43 year old Myo Myint, former Burma Army soldier, turned political activist and then political prisoner, photographed at the Assistance Association of Political Prisoners in Burma on the Thai-Burma (...

Nurse Narumon, in the Mae Sot hospital on the Thai-Burma border, treats a farmer from Burma's Karen State who lost his leg to a landmine.

A member of the HALO Trust (Hazardous Areas Life-Support Organisation), an NGO involved in the clearing of unexploded ordnance (UXO), during an anti-personnel landmine search in a small village near B...

Members of the HALO Trust (Hazardous Areas Life-Support Organisation), an NGO involved in the clearing of unexploded ordnance (UXO), during an anti-personnel landmine search in a small village near Ba...

A member of the HALO Trust (Hazardous Areas Life-Support Organisation), an NGO involved in the clearing of unexploded ordnance (UXO), during an anti-personnel landmine search in a small village near B...

A member of the HALO Trust (Hazardous Areas Life-Support Organisation), an NGO involved in the clearing of unexploded ordnance (UXO), during an anti-personnel landmine search in a small village near B...

A member of the HALO Trust (Hazardous Areas Life-Support Organisation), an NGO involved in the clearing of unexploded ordnance (UXO), during an anti-personnel landmine search in a small village near B...

Mortar and RPG (rocket propelled grenade) rounds lie in a pit awaiting destruction by a Weapons and Ammunition Disposal unit from the HALO Trust (Hazardous Areas Life-Support Organisation), an NGO inv...

The destruction of various munitions by a Weapons and Ammunition Disposal unit from the HALO Trust (Hazardous Areas Life-Support Organisation), an NGO involved in the clearing of unexploded ordnance (...

Pictures of landmines are displayed along with images of other munitions on a wall at OMAR Mine Museum. The OMAR (Organization for Mine Clearance and Afghan Rehabilitation) NGO runs landmine clearance...

10 year old Khadab found a cache of munitions in a school in Kirkuk. He was terribly injured after trying to burn gunpowder and explosives taken from the ordnance. In a period of a week, 52 people hav...

10 year old Yeourn Khuen lost an eye and sustained severe abdominal injuries when he discovered a landmine and it exploded.

Men play cards and pool as children watch, in a village which has been cleared of landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) by the Mines Advisory Group (MAG).

A family living on land in an area which has been cleared of landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) by the Mines Advisory Group (MAG).

Young boy watching cattle in a minefield where there are signs warning of the dangers of unexploded ordnance (UXO).

Children play in an area which has been cleared of landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) by the Mines Advisory Group (MAG).

A group of women and children gather to watch a controlled explosion to destroy unexploded ordnance (UXO) which was discovered on land surrounding the village.

Government troops place anti-tank mines along a road.

Landmine.

Members of the Mozambican Red Cross make a prosthetic leg for landmine victims in an orthopaedic workshop.

Advisors from the Mines Advisory Group (MAG) give a presentation about the dangers of landmines as part of their Mine Risk Education for Dinka people in Loko camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP...

The town of Luau is surrounded by minefields. People who live in the area have no choice but to enter the areas of unsafe land, which extend to the town itself, risking themselves and their families....

A young family have just arrived and are clearing land to build a house in an area known to be a minefield. The man with the branch is standing five metres away from the spot where a man was killed by...

A 2000lb bomb, one of nine large bombs which the villagers of Phanop showed a Mines Advisory Group (MAG) team which came to clear the area of unexploded ordnance (UXO). Decades on, Laos is still livin...

Ponchan (19) has been working for four months as a technician in a Mines Advisory Group (MAG) team which is working to clear unexploded ordnance (UXO). "I come from Tat village about ten kilometres fr...

A 500lb bomb is lifted out of the earth by a Mines Advisory Group (MAG) team which came to clear the area of unexploded ordnance (UXO). Decades on, Laos is still living with the effects of the Vietnam...

Several 500lb bombs being prepared for a controlled explosion by a Mines Advisory Group (MAG) team which came to clear the area of unexploded ordnance (UXO). Decades on, Laos is still living with the...

A government-held enclave in rebel-controlled territory. Landmine awareness education for children.