Today is United Nations Day. This October 24th, we look back over our partnership with the UN to create safe environments across the globe. Thanks to UN authorities’ financial support for projects spanning nearly ten years, GCS has successfully eliminated explosive threats in local communities in Libya, Iraq, South Sudan and Mali.

In Mosul, Tal Afar and Sinjar, we established Iraq’s first all-female demining team to clear urban areas strewn with rubble and interwoven with lethal explosive remnants of war (ERW) and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).

Today above all we honour the significance and positive impact of the work the UN do, in humanitarian demining and other peace-building endeavours and take a step back to remember what has been achieved so far, ready for our continued shared mission: creating safe environments wherever communities face explosive threats as a result of conflict.