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Podcast: ICRC Humanitarian Law and Policy Blog
Episode: Mine action in action: influencing law and policy on toxic remnants of war
Description: In conjunction with the movement to prevent the environmental impacts of armed conflict has come a growing recognition of the need to address the harm that has already occurred. Mine action, which aims to reduce the effects of landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW), provides a valuable model for assisting victims of and remediating the environment contaminated by toxic remnants of war (TRW).
In this post, part of the War, Law and the Environment blog series with the Conflict and Environment Observatory, Bonnie Docherty of Harvard Law Schoolβs International Human Rights Clinic and Human Rights Watch shows how mi...