This month we celebrate the six-year anniversary of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which entered into force on August 1, 2010. SafeGround was actively involved in the movement to bring about the
United Nations disarmament talks ended in Geneva on August 19, with 107 nations backing a report recommending that a conference be held next year to negotiate “a legally binding instrument
Minelab is an Adelaide based company that excels in metal detection technology. The name Minelab does not refer to landmine but rather to gold mine, which was the focus of
Human misery is rarely straightforward, and more often than not, is compounded by other factors. And so it is for the displaced Rohingya Muslim people fleeing for their lives following
We have heard via the International Campaign to Ban Landmines of a landmine “accident”. On September 26th 2017, four members of the same family died from the explosion of an
The Independent and Peaceful Australia Network, to which we belong, held its annual national conference in September. Hosted in Melbourne by the Maritime Union, its theme “War, Peace & Independence:
For more than 30 years SafeGround has engaged and worked with people and communities affected by war and conflict. Since the early 1990s we have actively supported and participated in the universalisation of the Mine Ban Treaty and Convention on Cluster Munitions. We are now working on the campaigning to stop lethal autonomous weapons.
As a member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines we are co-recipients of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize.