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In the News (Sun 6 Dec 09)

  
  HALO Trust
The HALO Trust, which last year cleared around 10,000 mines and 25,000 tonnes of unexploded shells, is looking for fresh projects in Bosnia, Croatia, and Georgia to add to those in Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Mozambique and Nagorno Karabakh.
HALO - the Hazardous Areas Life-Support Organisation - was registered as a charity and began recruiting for non-profit-making projects funded by government bodies, including Britain's Overseas Development Administration (ODA), other charities and private donors.
HALO has encountered its most dangerous work in Afghanistan where the ODA is part-sponsoring work in Kabul and the Shoma Valley.
www.britannia.com /newsbits/knights.html   (997 words)

  
  HALO Trust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The HALO Trust is a registered British charity and registered American non-profit organization whose purpose is to remove the debris left behind by war, in particular, landmines and unexploded ordinance that might present a danger to local civilians.
HALO is an acronym of Hazardous Areas Life-Support Organisation.
HALO operates in nine countries and has over 5,500 mine-clearers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HALO_Trust   (102 words)

  
 Irish Aid - Country - Mozambique
Halo Trust, one of the most prominent international de-mining organisations, is about to end its operations in the Niassa Province in northern Mozambique, having helped locate all of the mines capable of being found.
Halo Trust is a non-religious, non-political NGO, registered in Britain as a charity and in the United States as a Not-for-Profit organisation.
Halo is the largest independent humanitarian de-mining operator in the world and since being established in 1988 has destroyed over 5.5 million dangerous explosive items and returned just over a 100 million square metres of land-mined ground back to productive use.
www.irishaid.gov.ie /country_article.asp?article=774   (624 words)

  
 halo on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
A halo occurs when the light from the sun or the moon is refracted and reflected by ice crystals in the atmosphere, usually in a thin layer of high cirrostratus clouds.
Similar to a halo and sometimes confused with it is the sun's corona.
In X-ray electron diffraction, the term halos refers to the broad rings that appear on a photographic film as a result of the diffraction of a monoenergetic beam of X rays or electrons from a crystalline powder located at the center of the camera.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/h1/halo-met.asp   (981 words)

  
 Landmine Monitor 2001 - Humanitarian Mine Action
The HALO Trust is a non-political, non-religious, non-governmental, neutral humanitarian British charity specialising in the removal of the debris of war.
The HALO Trust also has a commitment to train and develop Cambodian management, so that an effective organisation will continue to serve the country after the intervention of expatriate staff is over [4].
HALO is currently using mechanical excavation procedures in order to support deminers clearing in areas with high metal contamination or areas where they have to excavate with no more than a trowel to reach the mines.
www.ngoforum.org.kh /Documents/English/mine_clearance.htm   (1205 words)

  
 Абхазия, Landmine Monitor Report 2005
HALO применяет комплексные объединенные команды по ручному и механическому разминированию, команды по образованию о минной опасности, исследовательские команды, и группы по маркировке минных полей, размещенные в Гальском и Очамчирском районах.
HALO работает по ускоренной программе разминирования, целью которой является объявление Абхазии к середине 2007 года страной “свободной от воздействия мин и НБ, насколько это позволяет безопасность”.
HALO информирует население Абхазии о минной опасности, и это только часть комплексной программы по разминированию, маркировке минных полей и образованию населения о минной опасности.
www.icbl.org /lm/2005/abkhazia.ru.html   (3036 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Halo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Halos, also known as icebows, are also optical phenomena that appear near or around the Sun or Moon, and sometimes near other strong light sources such as street lights.
Halos are found in Buddhist sculpture and painting from the Gandharan period, influenced by Greek artists brought to India with the army of Alexander the Great.
Some think the halo symbolizes the saint's consciousness as 'radiating' beyond the physical body, and that it serves as a pictorial reminder to the saint's devotees of the saint's transcendence of the physical body.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/halo   (1551 words)

  
 HALO Trust in Angola, by David Hartley (6.2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
HALO Trust, a British charity, is gaining acclaim for both the scope and quality of their demining operations.
HALO Trust gives all of their employees, including accountants and desk officers, the chance to work in the field.
HALO Trust’s Angola program is run from Huambo, one of the central provinces on the nation’s high plateau (planalto).
maic.jmu.edu /Journal/6.2/focus/davidhartley/davidhartley.htm   (2057 words)

  
 UK charity accused of spying | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
In a detailed statement, the FSB domestic intelligence service said that the Halo Trust had been working unauthorised in Chechnya since 1997 in league with the Chechen leader, President Aslan Maskhadov, and other Chechen warlords, training rebel combat engineers while pretending to be engaged in mine clearance operations.
The Halo Trust teams were said to have entered Chechnya with the aid of rebel fighters via the high mountain passes of the Georgia border, which the Russians view as the rebel supply lines.
"Halo Trust is supposed to be engaged in humanitarian work, clearing mines," said the FSB spokesman, Alexander Zdanovich.
www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,353066,00.html   (616 words)

  
 Adopt-A-Minefield - Mine Action Organisations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
The HALO Trust is an not-for-profit organization registered in Britain and in the United States.
HALO has gained immense experience in worldwide mine clearance over the last 14 years and is in a position to develop programs even further and clear more mines.
HALO’s largest programme, in Afghanistan, is quickly expanding to provide safe ground and assistance to the hundreds of thousands of returnees moving back to their homes.
www.landmines.org.uk /Countries/Teams/HALO   (287 words)

  
 International News - HALO TRUST PRESS RELEASE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
All HALO staff went through the correct visa procedure obtaining their visas through the correct channels, with visa application forms stating that we were on humanitarian programmes at the invitation of Chairman of the National Security Council in Moscow.
HALO has written to the Russian authorities in an attempt to clarify the situation and appeal that they treat our former employees with the Rule of Law and not with some blanket persecution.
HALO is extremely busy running humanitarian programmes in other parts of the world and we would like to draw a line under this Chechen issue so that we can concentrate on our work.
www.landmines.org.uk /NewsWire_Article/114   (694 words)

  
 i-Newswire.com - Press Release And News Distribution - HALO Trust Receives $50,000 Gift to Support Landmine Clearance ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
The HALO Trust is pleased to announce the receipt of $50,000 from the Toronto-based foundation, Grapes for Humanity.
The HALO Trust operates demining operations in nine countries and employs almost 6,000 staff around the world—including 1,100 local people in Cambodia.
HALO is a non-political, non-religious 501(c)(3) based in New York and Scotland.
i-newswire.com /pr22410.html   (467 words)

  
 Landmine charity that won royal recognition | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
For the Halo Trust, a British based charity, yesterday's allegations by the Russians that four of its workers had been spying while in Chechnya were an unwelcome distraction from its mine clearing around the world.
She picked her way through a minefield and the world saw this glamorous woman watching personnel from the Halo Trust clearing the topsoil to reveal the mines that had left Angola a wreck of walking wounded after a bitter civil war.
Halo said it recorded 296 mined areas in Chechnya after the 1994-96 war, and said these were frightening refugees from returning home.
www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,353003,00.html   (793 words)

  
 THE CHALLENGE OF DE-MINING KARABAKH From BayBak.com...
HALO Trust does not operate in Azerbaijan; mine clearance there is handled by the state-run Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action.
HALO representatives put that fact down in part to the bitter ongoing dispute over the self-declared state’s status.
Though HALO claims that Karabakh has the world’s highest incident of mines per capita (one per 13 residents, three times the number in Afghanistan), finding funding for mine clearance in the territory has been a challenge, according to Kumnova.
en.baybak.com /?p=339   (852 words)

  
 Georgia/Abkhazia
HALO Trust carried out a level-1 survey (basic survey designed to identify and record all known and suspected mined areas) in 1999-2000.
In the survey carried out by HALO Trust, adults – in particular farmers – were also identified as those most at risk and were targeted mainly during the summer months, the focus being a workers tea factory since the factory was mined during the conflict.
In November 2001 with the support of HALO Trust, which had found problems with the materials it was using in mine-awareness raising and that further staff training was needed, the ICRC looked at how it could support the mine-awareness work.
www.icrc.org /web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/5J4HH5?OpenDocument&View=defaultBody&style=custo_print   (2059 words)

  
 Russia labels British mine clearers as spies for Chechens
Russian intelligence accused British mine clearance charity the Halo Trust, of spying against Russia and aiding and abetting rebel fighters in Chechnya.
In a detailed statement, the FSB domestic intelligence service charged that the Halo Trust had been working unauthorized in Chechnya since 1997 in league with the Chechen leader, President Aslan Maskhadov, and other Chechen warlords, training rebel combat engineers while pretending to be engaged in mine clearance operations.
Halo Trust teams were said to have entered Chechnya with the aid of rebel fighters via the high mountain passes of the Georgian border.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/794851/posts   (833 words)

  
 oneworld.am   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Simon Porter, a former officer in the British Army, cut his teeth with the HALO Trust in Kosovo and Abkhazia, and has coordinated efforts to dispose of unexploded ordnance in the enclave for over a year.
HALO employs thirty civilian staff, and after completing two months of training, three Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams were formed, each comprising six de-miners that have so far disposed of 3,000 items of UXO, and 6,000 items of stray ammunition.
A Mine Action Committee comprising representatives from the HALO Trust, the ICRC, the Ministry of Defense, Civil Defense, and the Ministry of Education now facilitates communication and coordination between those bodies dealing with the problem.
www.oneworld.am /journalism/articles/halo.html   (974 words)

  
 Demining in Afghanistan
The HALO Trust has already recommenced operations in the north and northeast sections of the country.
This expansion of HALO Trust's operations is in response to a request from the director of NAPA, Dan Kelly (ph).
There is a Slovenian International Trust Fund for Demining that has taken a leading role in that region and has attracted a number of donors, including the United States, to provide assistance to that area of the world.
fpc.state.gov /fpc/7453.htm   (4223 words)

  
 Online edition of Daily News - Security
Thirty four vehicles belonging to the HALO Trust, a Non Governmental Organisation engaged in de-mining in the Jaffna peninsula, were destroyed by 20 unidentified men early yesterday while the vehicles were parked at the Nallur parking yard, defence sources told the Daily News yesterday.
According to the HALO Trust, the total damage caused to their vehicles had been estimated at Rs.
Another employee attached to the HALO Trust on his way to the work place had also been assaulted by the unidentified men.
www.dailynews.lk /2004/06/25/sec10.html   (225 words)

  
 Gaming Intelligence Agency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Halo is just another FPS that you pick up, play and enjoy for a month, and put down to never be picked up again.
Halo is less of a game, and more of a curiously constructed "thing", built to poke and prod me until my defenses break, and I give in to my moribund desire to own the Box of Evil.
Halo is the candy we're taught not to accept from strangers; the writhing worm on the end of a fish hook; the cheese to Microsoft's mousetrap.
www.squidbunny.com /letters/l0111/27.html   (2284 words)

  
 The HALO Trust
HALO has 7,000 full time demining staff, we have cleared 3.6 million land mines and unexploded ordnance, and a further 3 million stockpiled larger calibre ordnance.
HALO welcomes this as we have been banging on for 4-5 years that the LIS scoring system had badly skewed reality, and had resulted in millions and millions of donor dollars being wasted sorting out great swathes of land that were never mined.
HALO is so convinced that some mines do not give a scent out for the dogs, that we will never ever drive on a "dog cleared road" without full anti-tank mine protection on our vehicles.
www.state.gov /t/pm/wra/69398.htm   (1811 words)

  
 Halo 2 for Xbox Review - GameDaily
Halo 2 is the culmination of three years of hard work, and the end product is just as amazing I expected it to be.
Halo 2 has more than double the weapons of the first game, and while some are better than others, each has its place on the battlefield.
Surpassing the original's visuals in every respect, Halo 2 is a feast for the eyes in-game and during cut scenes, which happen to be some of the greatest scenes in game history.
www.gamedaily.com /halo-2/xbox/game-reviews/300   (2190 words)

  
 Tales of Asia - Richard Boulter
The HALO Trust is a donor-supported land mine clearance organization presently operating in nations in Africa, Europe, and Asia that have suffered in recent years from conflict and the land mine legacy these wars have left behind.
HALO will remain in Cambodia until the international community or the host government decides that no more mine clearance is appropriate.
I’ve been working for HALO for ten years now and it is an organization that requires its staff to be reasonably flexible and if there’s a need to go somewhere else then I go somewhere else.
www.talesofasia.com /cambodia-interviews-RB.htm   (4251 words)

  
 Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: FSB Reaches A New Low, Accuses British Charity
Articles appeared in all the British newspapers yesterday, the authors of which are indignant at FSB charges against the British Halo Trust charity, which is engaged in neutralizing mines in regions of armed conflict.
Halo Trust is calling the statements that its members engaged in espionage and that they trained Chechen explosives experts absurd.
For Britons, Halo Trust is chiefly associated with the name of Princess Diana, who conducted a campaign for a total ban on land mines.
www.fsumonitor.com /stories/082300rnws.shtml   (741 words)

  
 Halo Trust (Halo Trust)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
The HALO Trust is registered in the UK and USA as a non-profit organisation that alleviates poverty through the removal of the debris of war.
HALO’s policy is to train local staff in all aspects of programme management.
HALO’s global headquarters is in Scotland, with a sub-office in New York.
www.mineaction.org /org.asp?o=38   (133 words)

  
 NAGORNO-KARABAKH, Landmine Monitor Report 2005
HALO Trust, the only international organization carrying out mine clearance in Nagorno-Karabakh, reports that the working relationship with the committee is good, with coordination meetings held regularly.
According to HALO, priority for clearance is given to areas where the majority of mine incidents occur, or where development activities are planned and decided in consultation with the authorities.
HALO’s budget for 2005 is approximately $1,330,000, with funding received as follows: $797,061 from the Dutch Government for demining, survey and MRE teams; $450,000 from USAID for demining and survey; $53,321 from Cooperative Bank for demining; $29,800 from the Cafesjian Family Foundation for demining.
www.icbl.org /lm/2005/nagorno-karabakh.html   (2029 words)

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