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Listen now at the ABC Radio Australia website
Listen to an interview with MAG Cambodia's Country Programme Manager Rupert Leighton on ABC Radio Australia.
Ten years ago, the Ottawa Treaty banning landmines came into effect, but despite the ban countries like Cambodia are still grappling with the landmine legacy left by decades of conflict.
Cambodia is one of the most heavily mine- and unexploded ordnance- contaminated countries in the world. The Landmine Impact Survey (LIS) of April 2002 identified over 4,000 square kilometres of suspect land, which poses a significant obstacle to rehabilitation and to longer-term development.
The beneficiaries of MAG's work in Cambodia are the most vulnerable households in mine-affected communities who require extension of agricultural land, schools, health clinics and temple construction, road access, clean water sources and improved resettlement opportunities.
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A water pump built by World Vision on land cleared by MAG in Cambodia. |
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- MAG Cambodia microsite - find out more about MAG work in the country
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MAG’s work in Cambodia is supported by: Cambodia Minesremove Campaign(CMC); Care International; DFID (UK Department for International Development); Hind Aladwani; Imperial Tobacco; Isle of Man Government Overseas Development Assistance (ODA)/Manx Landmine Action; Japanese Government, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Jersey Overseas Aid Commission; Kyoto East Lions Club; Khaled Al Mashaan; Landmine Come To Zero Miyaki; Landmine Survivors Network; Lutheran World Federation; Rufford Maurice Laing Foundation; Night Vision Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD), U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command; Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, U.S. Department of State; Terra Renaissance; World Vision Cambodia; Zeromatsui.
31 March 09
