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Hannah Bryce

Mine action is seen as a predominantly male profession, and indeed it is. But there are a significant number of women working in, and benefiting from, demining and they give the usual macho world of explosives a different dimension. Flora, Joice and Joice, three women I've been working with in southern Sudan, are some of those who put the usual gender stereotypes to the test.

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