Although World War 2 ended over 70 years ago, many communities in what was the Pacific area of operations are still living with dangerous legacies of left over bombs and
Safe Ground Inc and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (Forum Secretariat) with the financial support of Australia/AusAID hosted a regional workshop in Brisbane Australia from 27 – 28 June 2013.
The USA, Australia, and Japan left this legacy during World War II fighting in the region.We are researching how people and communities in the Pacific are affected by unexploded remnants
Rising seas caused by climate change are seeping inside a United States nuclear waste dump on a remote and low-lying Pacific atoll, flushing out radioactive substances left behind from some
Annie Kwai’s book Solomon Islanders in World War 2: An Indigenous Perspective, brings indigenous wartime contributions and experiences to the forefront. It is the first book of its kind to be written
Hardly a three-hour flight from Brisbane lies the small island nation of the Solomon Islands. Known by very few Australians, the Solomon Islands played a crucial role in the Pacific
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.