Events, Publications & Resources

 

Events

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

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

 

Media

 

From the Middle East to West Africa: responding to the humanitarian impacts of improvised anti-personnel mines

Josephine Dresner

Child Victims of UXO Injuries Deserve Better

Rebecca Derry, Hannah Wild, Danae Hendrickson