Studies, data, country reports/region specific to Victim Assistance.
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Submissions from 2016
The United Nations Policy on Victim Assistance in Mine Action, United Nations Mine Action Service
Hidden Killers in Afghanistan, Khair M. Sharif
Paths to Recovery: Coordinated and Comprehensive Care for Landmine Survivors, Beth Sperber Richie, Angela Ferguson, Zahabia Adamaly, Dalia El-Khoury, and Maria Gomez
Survivor Assistance through Technology Transfer in Tanzania, Mary Stanton and Kim D. Reisinger
Can We Face the Landmine Victims?, Clarice Taylor
Upsetting Lives: The Public Health Impact of Landmines in Africa, Sarah Taylor
VVAF and Sports for Life: Promoting Rehabilitation, Reintegration and Rights, Sarah Warren
ICBL Working Group on Victim Assistance, Jerry White
Stories From Ocotal, José Ramón Zepeda
Submissions from 2015
Victim Assistance and Disability Rights: Beyond the Rhetoric, Sheree Bailey
Azerbaijan’s Landmine Victims: Realities and Challenges, Colin Bent and Hafiz Safikhanov
Victim Assistance in the World Today, Mike Boddington
Survivors Promote Victim Assistance and Disability Rights, Megan Burke and Loren Persi
Comprehensive Medical Assistance for Landmine Survivors in Nicaragua, Cecilia Bustamante
Gender-sensitive Victim Assistance, Arianna Calza Bini and Asa Massleberg
The Yemen Association for Landmine and UXO Survivors, Anne Capelle
The New IMSMA and Victim Assistance, Angela Desantis and Daniel Eriksson
Masculinity: The Unseen Barrier in Survivor Assistance, Anne-Sophie Duprat and Lusia Pecak
Securing Health Care Rights for Survivors: Developing an Evidence Base to Inform Policy, Jo Durham
Adapting Survivor Assistance to the Needs of Child Survivors, Ayda Eke
Victim Assistance: Still Seeking the Way, Suzanne Fiederlein
Survivor Success Story: Mezgebu Abiyu Tesfaye, Bekele Gonfa
The VA Information System in BiH, Zoran Grujic
Disability Rights in Laos, Megan Hinton and Ken Rutherford
Victim Assistance for Mine/ERW Survivors and PWDs in Sudan, Boutros Hobeika
Community Safety, Livelihoods and Socio-Economic Development: Karamoja, Uganda, Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining
Healing the Wounds, Humanity and Inclusion
New Prosthetics Offer Hope in Sudan, Mohammad Ismail
Victim Assistance and Inclusive Livelihoods, Wanda M. Jaime
Adnan Al Aboudi and the Landmine Survivors Network of Jordan, CISR JOURNAL
Basra, Iraq, Prosthetics Project, CISR JOURNAL
Canadian Scientist Receives Grant to Continue Developing Innovative, Low-cost Prosthetic, CISR JOURNAL
Daniel Yuval: A Survivor’s Hope, CISR JOURNAL
Profile: Clear Path International, CISR JOURNAL
Prostheses for Pachyderm Landmine Survivors, CISR JOURNAL
The Journal of ERW and Mine Action Issue 12.1 (2008), CISR JOURNAL
The Journal of ERW and Mine Action Issue 15.2 (2011), CISR JOURNAL
The Journal of ERW and Mine Action Issue 19.3 (2015), CISR JOURNAL
Unsung Hero: Carson Harte, CISR JOURNAL
Victim Assistance in Peru, Theresa Kane
Developing Medical Capacity in Lao PDR, Barbara Lewis and Sarah Bruinooge
Landmine Victim Assistance Progress, Challenges and Best Practices, Michael Lundquist
Healing and Reconciliation for Survivors of War in North Central Colombia, Cameron Macauley
Healing the Wounds of War: Victim Assistance in Post-conflict Burundi, Cameron Macauley
Landmine Injuries and Human Rights: The Terminology of Victims and Survivors, Cameron Macauley
Peer Support and Trauma Recovery, Cameron Macauley
Women After the Rwandan Genocide: Making the Most of Survival, Cameron Macauley
Building Capacity to Promote the Rights of People with Disabilities in Vietnam, Cameron Macauley and Heather Holsinger
Peer-support Training for Nonliterate and Semiliterate Female Ex-combatants: Experience in Burundi, Cameron Macauley, Monica Onyango, and Eric Niragira
Peer Support and Recovery From Limb Loss in Post-conflict Settings, Cameron Macauley, Marcia Townsend, Melissa Freeman, and Brent Maxwell
Aiding Survivors of the Syrian Crisis, Elizabeth MacNairn and Molly Feltner
Project Documents Discrimination Against Persons With Disabilities, Julie Miller
Caught in the Crossfire: Challenges to Providing Victim Assistance in Colombia, Michelle Miller
Providing Integrated Peer-support Assistance to Landmine Survivors, Amir Mujanovic
Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities in Tajikistan, Reykhan Muminova
Art Therapy and Sport Activities Enhance Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Reykhan Muminova
A Survivor’s Successful Story: Sadafmo, Reykhan Muminova
Solutions for Increasing Physical Accessibility, Capacity Building and Psychological Support in Tajikistan, Reykhan Muminova
Surveys to Achieve Quality of Life for Landmine Survivors, Reykhan Muminova
Pioneering Prosthetics, Duane Nelson
Association for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities in Quang Binh, Vietnam, Nguyên Thị Thúy Nga
Peer Programs Across Disability Groups: A Partnership for Human Rights, Sam Nickels
Azerbaijan Mine Victim Association: The Story So Far, Nick Nwolisa
The Terter Regional Vocational Training Center, Nick Nwolisa
I Remember My Lost Leg: The Story of Istahil, Dahib Mohamad Odwaa
To Walk the Earth in Safety 15th Edition (FY2015), U.S. Department of State
ERW and Survivor Assistance in Central Vietnam, Ari Perlstein and Imbert Matthee
Empowering Iraqis: Rehabilitation Training in Bosnia, Nikola Prvulov and Julie Miller
Assisting Cluster Munition Victims: A New International Standard, Markus Reiterer
Expanding Economic Opportunities in Lebanon, Toufic Rizkallah
Mass Fitting for Amputees in Tam Ky, Ken Rutherford
Peer-to-Peer Support Vital to Survivors, Ken Rutherford
Survivor Heroes Heal Lives and Landscapes Throughout the World, Ken Rutherford
Victim-Assistance History in International Humanitarian Law: From Somalia to Geneva to Laos, Ken Rutherford
Connecting the Dots: The Ottawa Convention and the CCM, Ken Rutherford, Nerina Čevra, and Tracey Begley
Evolution of Disability Rights in Iraq, Ken Rutherford and Megan Hinton
The Power of Peers: Rethinking Victim Assistance, Ken Rutherford and Cameron Macauley
Transfer and Dissemination of Appropriate Wheelchair Technology, William K. Smith, Nikola Prvulov, and Kathryn Jackson
Vocational Training and Wheelchairs, Huoy Socheat and Chin Yok
Pathways to Resilience Workshop Promotes Leadership and Peer Support, Anne Stewart, Lennie Echterling, Cameron Macauley, Nicole Neitzey, and Hasan Hamdan
Providing Safe Drinking Water in Post-Civil War Sri Lanka, Hartmut Thoms
Project Renew’s Prosthetics and Orthotics Mobile Outreach Program, Dang Quang Toan
U.S. Department of State Humanitarian Mine-action Support in Colombia, Edmund Trimakas
Rehabilitation for Gazan Children and Young Adults, Nataša Uršič and Goran Gačnik
Post-conflict Recovery: Gender and Age Issues, Stella Salvagni Varó and Ciro Hamo
The Development of Victim Assistance in Cambodia, Lao Veng and Sisary Kheng
AIMCA-OAS: Enhancing Aid to Landmine Survivors, Nicole Vera
Democracy, Human Rights and Governance Empowerment and Inclusion Division: Leahy War Victims Fund, USAID Leahy War Victims Fund
Cultivating a Broader Base for Landmine Action, Tammie Warmus and Maggie Emery
ICRC Weapons-contamination Activities in Colombia, Andy Wheatley
Medical Support to Demining in Sudan, Russell Wyper
Submissions from 2014
Guide to Mine Action 2014, Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining
Bombs Under the Rubble: Study of Awareness of Explosive Remnants of War Among the Population of Gaza, Humanity and Inclusion
To Walk the Earth in Safety 14th Edition (FY2013), U.S. Department of State
Submissions from 2013
To Walk the Earth in Safety 12th Edition (FY2012), U.S. Department of State
Programs for Vulnerable Populations Leahy War Victims Fund, USAID Leahy War Victims Fund
Submissions from 2012
Land Rights and Mine Action in Afghanistan: Frequently Asked Questions, Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining
To Walk the Earth in Safety 11th Edition (FY2011), U.S Department of State
Submissions from 2011
Assisting Landmine and other ERW Survivors in the Context of Disarmament, Disability and Development, AP Mine Ban Convention
To Walk the Earth in Safety 10th Edition (FY2010), U.S. Department of State
