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

POW/MIA families won't forget that presidential adviser Henry Kissinger helped Richard Nixon not only to manipulate a war but also to abandon U.S. troops.

Meet Jessica Pearce Rotondi...These documents brought to light a family ghost: her uncle Jack, who disappeared during the CIA-led “Secret War”...

From Vietnam to Laos to Cambodia, Henry Kissinger's legacy of devastation and war still lives on after his death.

Laos was heavily bombed between 1964 and 1973 and unexploded munitions are littered, dormant but deadly, across much of the country

Anti-Cluster Munitions Campaigners Call on Biden White House to Answer Basic Questions Regarding Recent U.S. Transfers of Indiscriminate Cluster Munitions to Ukraine

Ukraine has said the weapons, banned by many countries, are necessary to battle Russia

Today marks exactly fifty years since the last cluster bombs were dropped in Laos.

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...

Danae talks about the organization's beginnings, current focus, and future plans.

Dr. Palina Louangketh is a former Lao refugee from Pakse, Laos who moved with family to Boise-Idaho, during the Vietnam war-era bombing in Laos.

As global tributes to late US diplomat Henry Kissinger poured in, his death stirred fury across Southeast Asia.

This year marks 50 years since the last prisoner of war was released from captivity in Operation Homecoming in 1973.

Many fear that Ukraine, which has received many cluster bombs from the US, will become the next unfortunate casualty to share Laos' fate.

Exactly 50 years since the bombing stopped in Laos HALO is still clearing up unexploded bombs in the landlocked South East Asian country. JJ Chalmers talks to Sera Koulabdara, CEO of Legacies of War and to William Hunter, who runs HALO's Laos programme.

SEAD's Kaysone Syonesa Schneider sits down with Legacies of War's Aleena Inthaly & Danae Hendrickson.

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.

As someone from an impacted community, Anna made the decision to reconnect with her Lao roots.

Since the early age of 25, Mike Burton was raised with the belief that America was the best country in the world. But soon his perception and view of the world changed.

Laos Was Collateral Damage in the U.S.’ Secret War. The Wounds Are Visible in the Land and in Generations Still Waiting on Justice

A half-century after the war “ended,” people in Vietnam Laos, and Cambodia try to live their lives in a land riddled with unexploded ordinance that still kill and maim civilians.

Rockets from the advanced weapons system carry hundreds of cluster bombs, many of which will live on long after the war is over.

‘short-sighted, inhumane, and a complete disregard for intl law’

Cambodia and Laos have direct experience with the aftermath of U.S. cluster bombs, now deployed on the battlefield in Ukraine.