29 Jan
In April 2015 SafeGround sent experienced researchers to the island nation to document the impact unexploded WWII ordnance have on people’s every day lives and livelihoods.
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Dynamite fishing is the harmful practice of using unexploded ordinance to create explosions at sea for fishing purposes. The destructive impacts to the environment are threatening communities in islands in […]
READ MORE13 Nov
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 […]
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This first Launch of ‘One Step at a Time’ was by award-winning children’s author Phil Cummings as an Adelaide Fringe Festival free event on 21st February. On a 40° day […]
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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 […]
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SafeGround strongly condemns the attack this week on the Mine Detection Centre, a non-government de-mining organisation working in Afghanistan, which has left eight de-miners dead and another three injured. The […]
READ MOREFor 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.