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UXO museum Pakse |
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During the Second Indochina war (1964-1975), more than 2 million
tons of bombs were dropped on Lao PDR, making it one of the most
heavily bombed countries in the world. Today cluster
sub-munitions and other UXO continue to kill and injure dozens
of people a year. Large areas of Laos are contaminated with UXO.
The presence of UXO negatively affects the socio-economic
development of the country, preventing access to agricultural
land and increasing the costs, through land clearance, of all
development projects. In 2016, Lao PDR launched a localised
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 18 on reducing the UXO
obstacle to development.
Through the Government's National
Unexploded Ordnance Programme (UXO Lao), UNDP and other partners
help to clear land with improved technology, training de-miners
and offering community-based UXO risk education and surveys,
particularly in the most UXO-affected provinces. UNDP also seeks
to improve the overall coordination and planning of the UXO
sector as a whole through its institutional support to the
National Regulatory Authority for the UXO/Mine Action Sector in
the Lao PDR (NRA). |
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Champasak |
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Pakse |
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https://www.la.undp. |
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Free |
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15.1333, 105.90851 |
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