No More Landmines (also known as The No More Landmines Trust) was a United Kingdom-based humanitarian
landmine relief charity. The charity focused on landmine and
unexploded ordnance removal, mine risk education programmes, and rehabilitation of survivors of landmine injuries. No More Landmines was established in May 2005 as the UK administrator of the
United Nations Association
A United Nations Association (UNA) is a non-governmental organization that exist in various countries to enhance the relationship between the people of member states and the United Nations to raise public awareness of the UN and its work, to promot ...
Adopt-A-Minefield campaign, which has cleared over 21 million square metres of affected land since 1999. The charity closed in 2015, according to the Charities Commission.
Countries of operation
*Afghanistan
*Angola
*Bosnia-Herzegovina
*Cambodia
*Colombia
*Croatia
*Iraq
*Mozambique
*Laos
*Vietnam
Fundraising events
In March 2007, the charity launched the Dangerous Grounds Project, featuring
free running in London's
South Bank
The South Bank is an entertainment and commercial district in central London, next to the River Thames opposite the City of Westminster. It forms a narrow strip of riverside land within the London Borough of Lambeth (where it adjoins Alber ...
. By December 2007, the website, donated by
UK2, had received 85,000 video views.
In
London on November 1, 2007, The No More Landmines Trust in conjunction with Canadian sculptor
Blake Ward opened a temporary exhibition named ''Fragments'', comprising sculptures inspired by landmine victims.
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External links
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Mine warfare and mine clearance organizations