A destroyed shop in Irpin with the word 'mine' spray painted clearly.

Abandoned Russian positions and minefields.

A sign written in Russian warning of mine fields.

Bus stop next to a mine field.

Vera I fled with her husband, Evan, and three children, Eva, Sergey and Vlad. They came from Molochansk near Zaporiizhzhia. "We left in an organised convoy. There were burning tanks and bodies on the...

Vera I fled with her husband, Evan, and three children, Eva, Sergey and Vlad. They came from Molochansk near Zaporiizhzhia. "We left in an organised convoy. There were burning tanks and bodies on the...

Vera I fled with her husband, Evan, and three children, Eva, Sergey and Vlad. They came from Molochansk near Zaporiizhzhia. "We left in an organised convoy. There were burning tanks and bodies on the...

A warning sign indicating the prescence of mines placed on hills overlooking the city.

A warning sign indicating the prescence of mines placed on hills overlooking the city.

A sign on the road between Marinka and Krasnogorivka reads: 'Danger Mines. Don't leave the road! The area along the road is mined'.

Boy in Pajok orphanage draws an explosive item he has seen nearby, it is a mortar bomb. Children frequently report unexploded ordnance during risk education sessions.

Charles Okalonam walks past the new church he is building on land that was once a minefield. 22 people have returned so far and all come to this church. "This is our ancestral land, it is good land. W...

School classes in Nimule on the Ugandan/South Sudan border have doubled in size as more people return. Here pupils attend a Mines Advisory Service (MAG) explosive risk education session. This helps th...

A Mines Advisory Service (MAG) explosive ordnance risk education session with school children in Pajok. These lessons are especially important for children which are especially vulnerable due to their...

After losing their youngest daughter Moy to illness and malnutrition, Christine Ifon and her family moved to an area closer to medical facilities and sustainable farmland, determined that their remain...

A Mines Advisory Service (MAG) de-miner digs out a suspected unexploded ordnance next to a busy market which was uncovered by a grader repairing a road.

Acot Mary cooks a meal for her five children. “We were staying near here before, we had to come back. We have been waiting for Mines Advisory Service (MAG) to clear the land. We are happy the mines...

A Mines Advisory Service (MAG) de-miner looks on from a safe distance as mines are destroyed.

A man points to a suspected unexploded ordnance next to a busy market which was uncovered by a grader repairing a road.

An American M14 anti-personnel landmine.

Mines Advisory Service (MAG) delivers life-saving risk education lessons to the people waiting to receive non-food aid items from UNUCR and ACTED.

Mines Advisory Service (MAG) demining supervisor Rambo carefully investigates spots where a metal detector signalled a metal object and reveals an antipersonnel landmine.

A road where a de-mining team are at work clearing the expansive areas of land retaken by Azeri forces during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war with Armenia. The area remains heavily mined, and the de-min...

An Azeri de-miner part of a team at work clearing the expansive areas of land retaken by Azeri forces during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war with Armenia. The area remains heavily mined, and the de-mini...

A map used by de-mining teams at work clearing the expansive areas of land retaken by Azeri forces during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war with Armenia. The area remains heavily mined, and the de-mining...

A map used by de-mining teams at work clearing the expansive areas of land retaken by Azeri forces during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war with Armenia. The area remains heavily mined, and the de-mining...

Markers surround a partly revealed landmine. On the former frontlines between Azeri and Armenian forces, landmines litter the area, and de-mining teams are using machines, dogs, and human efforts to c...

A former graveyard taped-off to prevent people entering what is a heavily mined area on the outskirts of Agdam. The city reverted to Azeri control as a result of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war with Arm...

War debis litters the ground in a heavily mined area retaken by Azeri forces during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war with Armenia.

A de-mining teams at work with their dogs, clearing the expansive areas of land retaken by Azeri forces during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war with Armenia. The area remains heavily mined, and the de-mi...

Mines Advisory Service (MAG) staff explain to families where the most dangerous areas are and what they should look out for to stay safe from unexploded munitions and improvised landmines. 

Teenager Mamma Buji, one of thousands of children taught to stay safe by Mines Advisory Service (MAG) staff, talks during an educational workshop about the danger of landmines, IEDs and other explosiv...

Women cooking doughnuts to sell at the morning market in an IDP camp in Bama, a town close to the border with Cameroon. Travel out of the towns by road is fraught with the risk of attack and landmines...

People outside an IDP camp in Maidaguri, waiting to head out to the fields to farm. Every day when they cross the trench and leave the safety of the city or IDP camp they are at risk of kidnap, murder...

Idris Adam, who lives in an IDP camp in Maidaguri, described a series of landmine explosions he witnessed near his village. ''We always used the road to go to Konduga. One morning a boy was taking a...

People in the back of a truck outside an IDP camp in Maidaguri. Women and children leave the safety of the camps on a daily basis, crossing the defensive trenches, to work in the fields as hired hands...

Mines Advisory Service (MAG) staff explain to families where the most dangerous areas are and what they should look out for to stay safe from unexploded munitions and improvised landmines. 

Teenager Mamma Buji, one of thousands of children taught to stay safe by Mines Advisory Service (MAG) staff, talks during an educational workshop about the danger of landmines, IEDs and other explosiv...

People outside an IDP camp in Maidaguri, waiting to head out to the fields to farm. Every day when they cross the trench and leave the safety of the city or IDP camp they are at risk of kidnap, murder...

Idris Adam, who lives in an IDP camp in Maidaguri, described a series of landmine explosions he witnessed near his village. ''We always used the road to go to Konduga. One morning a boy was taking a...

People in the back of a truck outside an IDP camp in Maidaguri. Women and children leave the safety of the camps on a daily basis, crossing the defensive trenches, to work in the fields as hired hands...

Women cooking doughnuts to sell at the morning market in an IDP camp in Bama, a town close to the border with Cameroon. Travel out of the towns by road is fraught with the risk of attack and landmines...

Children attend a mines risk education workshop given by MAG (Mines Advisory Service). Attacks happen on a regular basis in and around the town and it is vital that people are aware of the dangers cau...

Sherriff Gana Bama, a community liaison team leader with MAG (Mines Advisory Service) talks to children in a camp for IDPs about risks from mines and IEDs. He says: 'I am so happy to be working with M...

A warning sign marks a field polluted by landmines on the frontline near Severodonetsk.

Natalia Voronkova chatting with a group of soldiers at their frontline position just a few hundred meters away from the frontline. Natalia uses the opportunity to get a sense of the honest and unfilte...

Natalia Voronkova (44), a volunteer who offers support and basic first aid training for Ukrainian government forces fighting Russian-backed separatists in the east of the country, learns about the var...

Natalia Voronkova (44), a volunteer who offers support and basic first aid training for Ukrainian government forces fighting Russian-backed separatists in the east of the country, learns about the var...

Ukrainian engineers have collected grenades, mines and other war materiel in this unofficial museum which they also use to teach others about the many dangers what face soldiers and civilians in the o...

An Afghan woman, who self-immolated, lies in a bed at a hospital in Herat.

Two women who lost legs to landmines lie on a bed at the International Red Cross Orthopedic (ICRC) rehabilitation centre. The aims of the ICRC rehabilitation centre are to educate and rehabilitate lan...

A US Marine checks for IEDs during a patrol through the Safar Bazaar, after improvised explosive devices were reported to have been planted there by the Taliban.

A member of the Taliban, who has lost his leg due to landmines, is seen at the International Red Cross Orthopedic (ICRC) rehabilitation centre.

A man who has lost both of his legs due to landmines, waits at the International Red Cross Orthopedic (ICRC) rehabilitation centre.

A landmines warning sign in a minefield near the Blue Line, on the Israeli Lebanese border.

Italian UNIFIL soldiers conduct demining training at their compound in Shama.

A calf grazes in a field that was formerly a mine field on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island. Following the retreat of Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) forces to Taiwan (Formosa) at the end o...

A calf grazes in a field that was formerly a mine field on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island. Following the retreat of Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) forces to Taiwan (Formosa) at the end o...

NATO ground forces conduct military exercises at the Adazi military base.

The Broken Chair statue on the Place des Nations outside the UN in Geneva. Standing on three legs, the fourth being shattered halfway, it evokes the fate of anti-personnel mine victims and calls on st...

Children take part in a landmine awareness class, part of the Azerbaijan Youth Advocates Program (YAP), at the Terter Vocational Training Centre.

Children take part in a landmine awareness class, part of the Azerbaijan Youth Advocates Program (YAP), at the Terter Vocational Training Centre.

A member of a landmine clearing squad paints stones lining a road with white paint to mark the location of an area contaminated with landmines.

Srey Yen in Chomka Chek minefield, part of the K-5 barrier minefield, on the Thai-Cambodian border

A sign in the Chartar 5 minefield warns, in Cyrillic and English, about the danger of unexploded mines . During the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan (1988 - 1994) both countries deployed large numbe...

Deminers working for the Halo Trust locate and clear anti-personnel mines buried in the Chartar 5 minefield. During the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan (1988 - 1994) both countries deployed large n...

A deminer working for the Halo Trust uses a detector to locate anti-personnel mines buried in the Martuni 9 minefield. During the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan (1988 - 1994) both countries deploy...

Sunrise over Anjuman Para village, near one of the most traversed border openings, because it is clear of landmines, for Rohingya refugees fleeing into Bangladesh.

A deminer from the Halo Trust clearing anti-personnel mines with a detector in the Martuni 9 minefield near the city.

A deminer from the Halo Trust clearing anti-personnel mines with a detector in the Martuni 9 minefield near the city.

A security cordon around a mine field in El Orejon.

Morning parade with Srey Yen and the HALO Trust teams at a camp beside the Chomka Chek minefield, part of the K-5 barrier minefield on the Thai-Cambodian border.

Morning parade with Srey Yen and the HALO Trust teams at a camp beside the Chomka Chek minefield, part of the K-5 barrier minefield on the Thai-Cambodian border.

Morning parade/head count with the HALO Trust teams at the camp beside the Chomka Chek minefield, part of the K-5 barrier minefield on the Tha-Cambodian border.

Srey Yen washing up at the HALO camp near the Chomka Chek minefield (part of the K-5 barrier minefiled) on the Thai-Cambodian border.

HALO trust team member Srey Yen helps Sophal into her protective vest before going into a minefield on the Thai-Cambodian border.

At a HALO camp deminers relax by watching Cambodian kick-boxing on a TV near the Chomka Chek minefield (part of the K-5 barrier minefiled) on the Thai-Cambodian border.

Srey Yen hangs out laundry at the HALO camp near the Chomka Chek minefield (part of the K-5 barrier minefiled) on the Thai-Cambodian border.

Srey Yen of the HALO Trust and her team, which is funded entirely by Irish Aid trust, near the Chomka Chek minefield on the Thai-Cambodian border.

HALO Trust control point at a camp in Chomka Chek minefield on the Thai-Cambodian border.

Srey Yen logs and maps the day's progress back at the HALO camp near the Chomka Chek minefield on the Thai-Cambodian border.

Srey Yen prepares a Hungarian GYATA anti-personnel landmine for destruction in the Chomka Chek minefield on the Thai-Cambodian border.

Srey Yen prepares a Hungarian GYATA anti-personnel landmine for destruction in the Chomka Chek minefield on the Thai-Cambodian border.

A GYATA anti-personnel landmine from Hungary ready for destruction in the Chomka Chek minefield on the Thai-Cambodian border.

Srey Yen speaks with her father during a break back at the HALO camp near the Chomka Chek minefield on the Thai-Cambodian border.

Srey Yen in the Chomka Chek minefield overseeing a member of her team a they work demining part of the K-5 barrier minefield on the Thai-Cambodian border.

Srey Yen and her comrades eat dinner at the HALO trust camp beside Chomka Chek minefield (K-5 barrier minefield) on the Tha-Cambodian border.

Srey Yen chats with colleagues back at the HALO camp near the Chomka Chek minefield on the Thai-Cambodian border.

Srey Yen logs and maps the day's progress back at the HALO camp near the Chomka Chek minefield on the Thai-Cambodian border.

Sreng Oun (40) a farmer holds a photograph of himself as a deminer for HALO in Ou Pok village.