Today, both the United States and Japan are wrestling with complex questions of immigration and refugee policy, navigating these pressures to arrive at very different answers.

The only reliable products of US airpower are devastated civilian populations and suppression of internal movements.

In Iran as in Laos, you cannot claim to negotiate in good faith while destroying civilian life. And you cannot escape the long shadow of toxins and explosives that outlive every justification offered in their name.

Russia Has Seized or Contaminated Millions of Hectares. The Work of Demining and Rebuilding Has Already Begun

As a young teen, Sera Koulabdara loved to walk across The Ohio State University campus with her father. He would point to buildings filled with lecture halls and libraries and talk about his dreams for Sera.

From the ruins of World War II to the jungles of Southeast Asia and now to the burning fields of Ukraine, the weapons may change, but the human cost of war remains heartbreakingly familiar.

Imagine airplanes dropping bombs every 8 minutes, 24 hours a day, for 9 long years. This was the reality for Laos, a country scarred by a secret war most Americans never knew about.

With its sweeping aid cuts, the Trump administration has effectively ended U.S. efforts to address a deadly legacy of the Vietnam War.

Southeast Asia is still riddled with unexploded American bombs and effects of Agent Orange, both of which USAID programs were helping to mitigate.

“I am over here because my mother told me as a little kid to clean up after myself,” said Bill Morse, who was a U.S. Army officer during the Vietnam War and co-founded the Landmine Relief Fund.

Roland Oliphant speaks to Sera Koulabdara, CEO of Legacies of War, about the halt of de-mining work in southeast Asia and why it is essential for American influence in China's backyard.

Some “demining” groups have already been forced to suspend operations.

The U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines – U.S. Cluster Munition Coalition is deeply concerned about the global impact of President Trump’s 90 day stop work order for U.S. foreign assistance programming that suspends U.S.-funded mine clearance programs.

The eyes of a trio of Cambodian deminers widen as they watch Motoyuki Sato demonstrate the latest upgrades to one of the world’s most advanced landmine detectors.

As a young child in Champassak Province, southern Laos, after coming home from school one day, Sera Koulabdara heard loud banging...

As the US Cluster Munition Coalition recommends, President Biden should to immediately halt the transfer of cluster munitions given the significant humanitarian, human rights, and political risks involved.

Two years of war has left roughly one-third of its territory polluted, with dire potential consequences for the world's food supply

A half-century after the Secret War ended in Laos, one intrepid organization is turning buried history toward healing and accountability

This Earth Month, as we reflect on the power we hold, we should recognize that some of the most profound acts of environmental stewardship begin not with planting or preservation, but with making the ground safe enough to stand on.

In a remote village in the mountains of Xieng Khouang province in northern Laos a small temple is under construction. Its concrete walls are unpainted, and window and door frames sit unfinished. Inside the temple rests a 500-year-old golden Buddha statue, flanked by two columns of old brick. The statue’s eyes gaze outside at the rice paddies that surround the village.

Human rights are a shared language that allows us to see the humanity in each other. They are a needle that threads through each of our lives, reminding us that threats to the rights of any human are threats to our own humanity.

Russia's overarching goal is not to expel Ukraine's inhabitants but to erase the Ukrainian national identity. This has become the very kind of war the United Nations was created to prevent.

Four years ago, the U.S. military completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan on August 30, 2021, after a 20-year presence. It marked the end of America’s longest war.

Our families arrived here not by choice, but through survival. They fled genocide, war, and political persecution. They braved oceans, jungles, and camps so that future generations could live in freedom.

The recent U.S. announcement that it will cease providing weapons and intelligence support to Ukraine is a deeply concerning shift.

Ukraine, a top grain exporter because of its fertile soil, is now the most heavily mined country. The cost to demine it is expected to exceed $30 billion.

As Mine Action Fellows, we urge you to immediately lift the 90-day stop-work order on U.S. foreign assistance programming, which has suspended the U.S. funded demining efforts.

Open Letter to Secretary of State, Hon. Marco Rubio

US decision to pause global mine-clearing programmes is a death sentence for vulnerable communities of some 70 countries and territories, campaigners tell TRT World.

Large swaths of land in Southeast Asia are littered with unexploded bombs dropped by American forces during the Vietnam War.

Join our Youth Advocacy Ambassador, Layla Lahlou, as she interviews H.E. Ambassador Anouparb Vongnorkeo, 8th Permanent Representative of the Lao PDR to the United Nations (UN).

As the world’s most bombed country per capita, Laos knows all too well of the dangers that lurk just inches beneath its soil.

What are the impacts and lasting effects of the bombardments of Agent Orange, napalm, and other explosive ordnance on Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam? How has this affected the country and its people?

In 1962, Mike Burton was commissioned in the US Air Force. Stationed in Thailand, he worked in intelligence and was...

Peace is not given – it is forged, reclaimed, and built from the very fragments meant to destroy us.

Today marks 55 years since the powerful 1971 testimony that shattered official records of the U.S.’s involvement in Laos and upended the lies told to Congress by the White House.

World Health Day is meant to celebrate and protect human health.

The enduring impacts of this Vietnam War-era herbicide underscore why remembrance must be paired with action

With unexploded bombs, wars never really end — even after the fighting stops

“LETHALITY STARTS WITH LOGISTICS,” boasts an advertisement for an artificial intelligence–powered weapons procurement system on the walls of the Washington D.C. metro. Similar ads for long-range solid rocket motors and “super-human military staffs” fade into the background of one’s daily commute and subconscious.

The Vietnam War Is Still Killing People, 50 Years Later

For decades, college students have been at the forefront of advocating for peace, including during the Vietnam War, when young people across the U.S. mobilized in mass protests against the conflict.

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Continued US funding is needed to resolve the impact of our deadly legacy and create a brighter future for my students and their families.

In a letter shared with TRT World, former ambassadors to Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam press Secretary of State Marco Rubio to help resume US-funded mine clearance programmes.

The pause will lead to a surge in avoidable deaths, aid groups say

The WLWG is proud to announce Susan Hammond of the War Legacies Project and Sera Koulabdara with Legacies of War as co-chairs for 2025

On International Youth Day, experts write from Laos, where children continue to die in a war that ended over 50 years ago.

Buried bombs are robbing children of their limbs as landmine as casualties rise to 1,052 in Myanmar

Mike Burton ’71, ’74 wants the US to clear the bombs it left behind in Laos 50 years ago.