Across the world, women are increasingly doing what has traditionally been a man’s job – clearing landmines and unexploded bombs left over after decades of conflict.
This dangerous and highly skilled task involves painstakingly marking suspected contaminated land and then using detectors to methodically sweep the ground to find the left-over landmines, unexploded shells and other projectiles. In the mountains of northern Iraq, Kurdish women have been an integral part of efforts to clear their country of its extensive landmine contamination for a decade now, working alongside their Arab and Yazidi colleagues.
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