The sappers' superior, Oleksandr, 45, looked on from the field's edge as his men delicately rooted around the fertile, black soil for explosive remnants.
"This is the case now and always has been...As a neutral organisation, Halo's responsibility is to ensure the safety of civilians from explosive remnants of war".
Populations emerging from armed conflicts often remain threatened by landmines and explosive remnants of war.
Mine action removes these explosive remnants of conflict to enable communities to safely return contaminated land to productive use.
Humanitarian demining requires a broad range of methodologies and instrumentation for reliable identification of landmines, antipersonnel mines, and other explosive remnants of war (ERWs).
MEC include specific categories of military munitions such as unexploded ordnance (UXO), discarded military munitions (DMM), and explosive remnants of war (ERW), all hereafter referred to as MEC [2].
"Wherever the conflict has taken place there's the possibility of explosive remnants of war.
Further, the treaty's provisions on victim assistance, stockpile destruction and clearance will reinforce global efforts to reduce the toll taken by explosive remnants of war of all sorts.
Yemen was already strewn with thousands of land mines and explosive remnants of war from previous clashes, and the current conflict has made the situation worse, according to Save the Children.
Over 1 million explosive remnants of war were destroyed in Afghanistan in 2010.
Twenty-one of Sudan's 26 states may be affected by landmines or explosive remnants of war.
