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(c) Clearing mined areas

(c) Clearing mined areas

Clearing mined areas Assisting the victims

Destroying stockpiled anti personnel mines Clearing mined areas

In 2015 alone, Freeport mined some 3.1 billion worth of gold and copper here.

Moreover, we have embarked on a demining project that allows the freeing of mined territories for agricultural use.

I am concerned by the potential dangers for civilians who enter the heavily mined buffer strip and restricted areas.

Our education system has mined our minds in the way that we strip mine the earth for a particular commodity.

The resulting Nairobi Action Plan for 2005 2009 set as its top priority meeting the deadlines for clearing mined areas.

The Technical Annex provides a number of detailed and potentially useful practices for the marking and fencing of mined areas.

Transfers of mines have virtually halted, large tracts of previously mined lands have been cleared and more than 31 million stockpiled mines have been destroyed.

(iii) to spare no effort to meet our challenges ahead in universalizing the Convention, destroying stockpiled anti personnel mines, clearing mined areas and assisting victims.

If a party decides only to record and monitor mined areas, the protection for civilians will only exist as long as military personnel are present.

The 49 States Parties that have reported mined areas under their jurisdiction or control, where they have not yet done so, will do their utmost to

Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and it can be mined very easily.

Organizations operating mine action programs know from their experience in war affected countries that mined areas must be recorded, monitored and fenced for there to be a substantial humanitarian benefit.

It's mined by armed gangs using slaves, child slaves, what the U.N. Security Council calls blood minerals, then traveled into some components and ended up in a factory in Shinjin in China.

No safety pillars shall be mined without authorization and no dangerous methods, such as water bursting, blasting and breaking through roadways, which may threaten the production safety of adjacent coal mines shall be adopted.

But the way coal is mined right now is different from the deep mines that her father and her father's father would go down into and that employed essentially thousands and thousands of people.

(3) Suriname has reported fulfillment of its obligation to clear all anti personnel mines from mined areas under its jurisdiction or control, joining Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Djibouti and Honduras in achieving this important milestone.

While civilians obviously have a right to demonstrate, they are evidently being organized and escorted to stage protests in the dangerous, heavily mined buffer strip, in front of the military positions at the berm.

So in habitats that have already been damaged, like the tall grass prairie here in the USA, or in mined land in various countries, restoration is already happening because of these species and because of this collection.

Zircons that are mined in the Jack Hills of western Australia, zircons taken from the Jack Hills of western Australia tell us that within a few hundred million years of the origin of the planet there was abundant water and perhaps even life.

We remain as determined as ever to secure our achievements to date, to sustain and strengthen cooperation under the Convention, and to spare no effort to meet our challenges in universalizing the Convention, destroying stockpiled mines, clearing mined areas and assisting the victims.

(7) Forty six (46) States Parties still need to fulfill their obligations to clear all anti personnel mines from mined areas under their jurisdiction or control, including 22 which are obliged to do so in 2009, prior to our Second Review Conference.

The pursuit of universal adherence to the Convention, which will remain an important object of cooperation among States parties To ensure the expeditious and timely destruction of all stockpiled anti personnel mines under their jurisdiction or control To successfully meet deadlines for clearing mined areas.

In addition to the amount of gold which the National Bank of The Democratic Republic of The Congo has reported was mined in the western part of the country, production figures for South Kivu reported by the director of the Division provinciale des mines are also included.

Article 5 of the Convention requires each State Party to ensure the destruction of all anti personnel mines in mined areas under its jurisdiction or control as soon as possible but not later than 10 years after the entry into force of the Convention for that State Party.

Because of the numerous armed conflicts in Africa, the continent was the most mine affected region of the world in terms of mined area. Thousands of hectares of agricultural land were not exploited because of the danger of mines, thereby substantially impeding the economic development of those regions.

Ensure that clearing mined areas and assisting victims are identified as priorities, wherever this is relevant, in national, sub national and sector development plans and programmes, Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), UN Development Assistance Frameworks, and other appropriate mechanisms, thus reinforcing national commitment and increasing ownership in fulfilling Convention obligations.

Recalling also the Fifth Meeting of States Parties to the Convention, held at Bangkok from 15 to 19 September 2003, and the Declaration of the Fifth Meeting of States Parties committing the States parties, one year before their First Review Conference, to pursue, with renewed vigour, efforts to clear mined areas, assist victims, destroy stockpiled anti personnel mines and promote universal adherence to the Convention,

In fact, there are four channels through which the real interest rate affects real commodity prices (aside from whatever effect it has via the level of economic activity). First, high interest rates reduce the price of storable commodities by increasing the incentive for extraction today rather than tomorrow, thereby boosting the pace at which oil is pumped, gold is mined, or forests are logged.

Significantly reduce risks to populations and hence reduce the number of new mine victims, hence leading us closer to the aim of zero new victims, including by prioritising clearance of areas with highest human impact, providing mine risk education and by increasing efforts to perimeter mark, monitor and protect mined areas awaiting clearance in order to ensure the effective exclusion by civilians, as required by Article 5 (2).

One of the more obvious manifes tations of treating the human body as a resource to be mined is the hospital waiting list, used in many countries. A man I interviewed recently for a study of Swedes who had been on the waiting list, but who decided to purchase kidneys abroad, described to me his trip to Pakistan for the transplant I m not the kind of man who uses other people, but I had to.

The fact is that nature is already being bought and sold, mined and marketed at knock down prices that fail to capture its real worth, especially to the livelihoods of the poor. In large part, this reflects unregulated or missing markets that fail to capture the values that nature provides to us every day point emphasized in the G 8 5 project on the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, hosted by the UNEP.