{"id":18749,"date":"2022-02-01T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/?p=18749"},"modified":"2022-02-01T14:00:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T14:00:36","slug":"masam-announces-new-landmark-in-yemen-as-it-clears-4500th-anti-personnel-landmine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/masam-announces-new-landmark-in-yemen-as-it-clears-4500th-anti-personnel-landmine\/","title":{"rendered":"Masam announces new landmark in Yemen as it clears 4,500th anti-personnel landmine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image source=&#8221;featured_image&#8221; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;right&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1524156224953{margin-bottom: 25px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1643723833161{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #b5b5b5 !important;border-radius: 15px !important;}&#8221;]Project Masam has reached a new significant milestone after clearing its 4,500th anti-personnel landmine in Yemen since Masam started its operations in mid-2018.<\/p>\n<p>Since the conflict between Yemen\u2019s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated\u00a0<a class=\"au mu\" href=\"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/project-masam-secures-30-of-%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8bdhubab-directorate-in-taiz-governorate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\">strategic areas<\/a>\u00a0have been left littered with <a class=\"au mu\" href=\"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/18298-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\">Houthi anti-personnel mines<\/a> and anti-tank mines, along with unexploded explosive remnants of war (ERW). Anti-personnel landmines, which production, stockpiling and use of are banned by international law, violate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/18298-2\/\">people\u2019s fundamental rights to life<\/a>, liberty and security. Tragically, civilians are the first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/teenager-killed-by-landmine-in-hays-as-masam-called-in-for-emergency-mine-clearance\/\">victims\u00a0of\u00a0anti-personnel\u00a0landmine<\/a> explosions.<\/p>\n<p>On 28 January 2022, Project Masam announced it had cleared a total of 4,519 anti-personnel landmines across liberated area in Yemen. This milestone was reached during the week 22 January to 28 January 2022, during which period Masam teams cleared a total of 101 anti-personnel landmines. The demining teams also cleared 2,302 anti-tank landmines during the same week.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this accomplishment, there is still a lot of work left to do to ensure Yemen is made safe again, and our teams are committed to continue their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/reducing-the-suffering-caused-by-anti-personnel-mines-through-education\/\">critical human rights and humanitarian mission<\/a> in Yemen, Masam has said.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image source=&#8221;featured_image&#8221; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;right&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1524156224953{margin-bottom: 25px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1643723833161{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #b5b5b5 !important;border-radius: 15px !important;}&#8221;]Project Masam has reached a new significant milestone after clearing its 4,500th anti-personnel landmine in Yemen since Masam started its operations in mid-2018. Since the conflict between Yemen\u2019s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,95],"tags":[151,298,296,149,300,233,299,182,102,101],"class_list":["post-18749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-our-impact-stories","tag-anti-personnel-landmines","tag-anti-personnel-mines-ban","tag-houthi","tag-houthi-landmines","tag-houthi-yemen","tag-landmine-victims-yemen","tag-landmines-ban","tag-masam","tag-project-masam","tag-yemen","category-18","category-95","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18751,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18749\/revisions\/18751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}