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The report contained a table listing each area linked to a province, the types and quantity of mines it contained as well as the date of emplacement when known.

The planting of anti-personnel mines has generated numerous victims and has led to the isolation of a large number of Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities.

[...] [...] survey on cable burial conditions and whale behavior using the autonomous [...]

[...] [...] Lebanese sovereignty when it planted an [...] [...]

[...] [...] the mines were laid along this border.

Those mines and other unexploded ordnance, which had been deployed across vast swathes of Libyan territory, including agricultural land and urban residential areas, were among the most sophisticated and harmful of their kind and posed an even more serious problem, in terms of both numbers and destructive power, than the explosive remnants of the Second World War, rendering demining one of the priorities of the new Government and necessitating assistance from the United Nations and friendly neighbouring countries.

It also refuses to provide maps of the mines and cluster bombs that it has laid in my country.

the States primarily responsible for laying these mines and leaving explosives outside their territories during Second World War to cooperate with the affected countries and provide mine action support to affected countries, including information exchange, maps indicating the locations of mines and explosives, technical assistance for mine clearance, defrayal of the costs of clearance and compensation for any losses caused by mines-laid.

The occupying Power still refused to specify the location of the mines it had laid in the occupied Syrian Arab Golan which had so far caused over 600 victims, 214 of them children, and remained the major threat to the lives of Syrian farmers and other inhabitants of the Golan.

[...] an explosive device on the Suqaylibiyah-Qal’at [...] [...]

According to the Presidential Programme for Comprehensive Action against Anti-Personnel Mines (PAICMA), from January to October, anti-personnel mines laid by illegal armed groups, mainly by FARC-EP and ELN, resulted in the deaths of 9 children and injury of 24 children.

Even though there is population growth, the main obstacle factor to agricultural development is the mines lay on the land field.

[...] [...] incinerators or landfill facilities (GTZ/Holcim, [...]

The total number of emplaced mines in the known areas was reported to be 921,080.

The Non-Aligned Movement strongly urges Israel to provide the exact location of explosives planted on Lebanese territory, as well as maps of the location of the landmines planted during its occupation of southern Lebanon.

In Colombia, conflict-affected communities in remote rural areas have intermittently lacked access to essential food items, health care, education and other basic services, sometimes for periods of several weeks, owing to roadblocks, active hostilities, incursions by armed groups and the laying of mines by such groups.

[...] and explosive devices planted by FARC.

[...] two explosive devices inside the university park, near the university campus; one device at [...] [...]

Landmines remain a significant problem, and, in a particularly worrisome development, anti-personnel landmines have been newly laid along transport routes in Unity and Upper Nile States and parts of Jonglei State.

[...] an explosive device on the Muhradah-Suqaylibiyah road, at the turn-off for Jalmah village.

[...] [...] other countries, such as mine, during [...]

At the 10th Meeting of the States Parties, Turkey reported that out of the total number of emplaced anti-personnel mines, 814,951,450 had been cleared, leaving 814,501 still to clear.

While most of the power produced by these projects goes to central Myanmar, with few benefits for local villagers, these residents have been victim to forced labour, including providing sentry duty to guard the structures, and made vulnerable to landmines used to protect the properties.

For instance, 300 Syrian children have been killed by Israeli mines planted in the Golan alone, in addition to the hundreds more who have been mutilated by landmines.

At the June 2010 meeting of the Standing Committee on Mine Clearance, the United Kingdom reported the release of 4 areas, 1 classified as suspected to contain anti-personnel mines and 3 where the presence of anti-personnel mines was known.

It has imprisoned citizens of the Golan, seized land and built more settlements; it has pillaged the Golan’s resources, distorted its history and planted mines there.

Various United Nations resolutions, as well as the 2005 conference on development and mineclearance from the northwest coast, jointly organized by the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and chaired by former United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali had affirmed that the responsibility for clearing mines laid in western Egypt during the Second World War rested with the States parties to that war.

The request also contains information on the types of mines and an estimated number of mines contained in the area based on the number of mines originally laid, the experience from the clearance carried out in 2006-2008 and the technical survey of 2008.

[...] [...] previously laid mines remain largely in place.