Sudan: Cluster Bomb Found in Conflict Zone
(Washington, DC) – The Sudanese government should investigate the discovery of a cluster bomb in Southern Kordofan, a conflict zone hit by gover...
(Washington, DC) – The Sudanese government should investigate the discovery of a cluster bomb in Southern Kordofan, a conflict zone hit by gover...
AP | JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 01.16.2012
GENEVA — Cluster bombs, artillery shells and missiles are still stockpiled in 69 nations a year after a new international law took effect aimed ...
Steve Goose | Posted 01.15.2012
Regrettably, the move to eliminate cluster munitions is under attack, with the United States leading the way. The US is touting an alternative with much lower standards than US policy already requires.
Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza | Posted 05.25.2011
In Southeast Asia, UXOs left over from the Vietnam War injure and kill hundreds of people each year.
Azeem Ibrahim | Posted 05.25.2011
I don't know how this particular WikiLeaks revelation has not been much, much bigger news, involving as it does cluster bombs and a secret legal loophole that let Britain get around its treaty obligations.
Bill Quigley | Posted 05.25.2011
Human rights advocates have significant new sources of information to hold the United States accountable. The transparency, which Wikileaks has broug...
Louis Belanger | Posted 05.25.2011
We walked around a field where the ground was literally littered with small holes and flags, marking the dangerous bomblets buried inches beneath the surface. There must have been 50 munitions scattered across a field the size of a basketball court.
Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011
Boycotts focus on arresting the most valuable yet vulnerable freedoms: freedom of thought. Like a cluster bomb, boycotts are not particularly surgical in its strike, instead reeking extensive collateral damage.
Louis Belanger | Posted 05.25.2011
By Anna MacDonald - Head of Oxfam's Control Arms Campaign Treaties take a long time to develop and negotiate. The ones being negotiated under the hel...
AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 05.25.2011
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Tuesday that the international convention banning cluster bombs has received the 30 rat...
Sharmine Narwani | Posted 05.25.2011
My mouth is fixed in a gape -- unable to correct itself after Thomas Friedman's pronouncement that for two decades, U.S. foreign policy has been dedicated to rescuing Muslims or freeing them from tyranny. Where does one begin, pray tell?
BBC | Posted 05.25.2011
Israel has handed over details of where it dropped cluster bombs in Lebanon during the war in 2006, UN peacekeeping forces have confirmed....
Human Rights Watch | Posted 05.25.2011
(Geneva) -- The loss of lives and livelihoods from cluster munitions used by Russia and Georgia during the August 2008 armed conflict reinforces the i...
Inter Press Service | Vesna Peric Zimonjic | Posted 05.25.2011
BELGRADE, Apr 8 (IPS) - An estimated 160,000 people in Serbia are still in danger from thousands of unexploded cluster bombs, ten years after the N...
Donald Steinberg | Posted 05.25.2011
Cluster munitions are particularly evil weapons. On falling to the ground, these bombs and shells separate into dozens of small bomblets, exploding on the enemy and civilians.
Press Trust Of India | T V Sriram | Posted 05.25.2011
At least 52 civilians were killed in shelling in Sri Lanka's embattled northern Wanni region, where a hospital came under attack for the fourth straig...
Stephen Zunes | Posted 05.25.2011
The appointment of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State is nothing less than a betrayal of the anti-war constituency responsible for Barack Obama win...
AP | DOUG MELLGREN | Posted 05.25.2011
OSLO, Norway — An Afghan teenager who lost both legs in a cluster bomb explosion helped persuade his country to change its stance and join nearl...
The Guardian | Ian MacKinnon in Phonsavanh, Laos | Posted 05.25.2011
More than 100 countries will today sign a convention banning the use of cluster bombs. In Laos, the most bombed nation on earth, their lethal legacy i...
Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011
The moral center of humanity slowly asserts itself. Only the most powerful are too afraid to join. You may have missed the news: At the end of May, 1...
Steven Solomon and David Kaye | Posted 05.25.2011
A variety of pressures compelled the NATO powers in Dublin to support a ban in principle while preserving American flexibility to use cluster munitions in joint operations with allies that might join the treaty.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011
In refusing to sign a treaty to ban cluster bombs, our focus and that of the other munitions' manufacturers was not on how deleterious cluster bombs are, but on their monetary value.
Steven Crandell | Posted 05.25.2011
The treaty banning cluster munitions would not be seen as undermining "military utility" but instead as a prudent step to stop avoidable civilian deaths and injuries.
Human Rights Watch | Posted 05.25.2012