Events, Publications & Resources
Events
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United Nations NDM28
Geneva, April 2025
Side Event: “Strengthening Local Capacity to Respond to Explosive Injuries: Integrated Explosive Risk Ordnance Education and Community First Aid Responder Trainings”
This event brough together mine action operators including the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), MAG (Mines Advisory Group), Humanity & Inclusion Armed Violence Reduction, and Norwegian People's Aid / Norsk Folkehjelp as well as the World Health Organization. This event was highlighted by the attendance of local partners in Burkina Faso, Myanmar, Mozambique, and Syria, who provided an overview of joint EORE-CFAR trainings which hold potential to bring trauma care closer to the point of injury and increase survival among victims of explosive injuries.
APMBC Intersessional Meetings
Geneva, June 2023
Side Event: “Optimising emergency health response for casualties of mines and other explosive weapons”
This event brought together health and victim assistance experts from organisations such as the WHO, International Committee of the Red Cross, and APMBC VA Co-Chairs from Uganda and Austria.
3rd Global Conference on Assistance to the Victims of Anti-Personnel Mines and Other Explosive Ordnance
Phnom Penh, Cambodia, October 2023
Plenary session: “Prioritising access to health care services”
27th International Meeting of Mine Action National Directors and UN Advisors
Side Event: “The Explosive Weapons Trauma Care Collective: One Year Later”
Publications
Our work is published in outlets focused on conflict, trauma care, and injury prevention including the Lancet, World Journal of Surgery, and Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction.
Strengthening the emergency health response to children wounded by explosive weapons in conflict
World Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 2022
Lessons from mine action: integrated care for civilians in conflict
Lancet, 2023
mitigating the human cost of incendiary weapons: action from burn care providers
Burns, 2023
We asked the experts: Ensuring the quality and security of surgical teleconsultation in low‐resource conflict settings
World Journal of Surgery, 2024
Enhancing coordination between humanitarian mine action and the emergency health response to civilian casualties of explosive ordnance
Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction, 2023
PROTECTING CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN ARMED CONFLICT
The Lancet, 2024
Bringing Victim assistance closer to the point of injury: reducing preventable death and impairment among civilian casualties of explosive weapons
Explosive Weapons Monitor, 2024
Reducing harm associated with prehospital tourniquet application in resource-limited settings
World Journal of Surgery, 2024
IMPROVING POINT OF INJURY TRAUMA CARE FOR IED VICTIMS
Small Arms Survey, 2024
Synthesizing the Evidence Base to Enhance Coordination between Humanitarian Mine Action and Emergency Care for Casualties of Explosive Ordnance and Explosive Weapons: A Scoping Review
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2025
Countering the threat posed by improvised explosive devices
United Nations General Assembly, 2024
The Explosive Weapons Trauma Care Collective: A Roadmap for Reducing Preventable Death Among Civilian Casualties of Explosive Injury
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction, 2024
Documenting the human cost of incendiary weapons: Establishment of a global registry
Burns, 2025
Media
Integrated Explosive Ordnance Risk Education and Community First Aid
EORE Advisory Group
From the Middle East to West Africa: responding to the humanitarian impacts of improvised anti-personnel mines
Josephine Dresner
Children Living in Conflict - Public Health Impacts and Approaches
Humanitarian Leadership Academy
Strengthening Local Capacity to Respond to Explosive Injuries
NDM 28
Child Victims of UXO Injuries Deserve Better
Rebecca Derry, Hannah Wild, Danae Hendrickson