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Cluster Bomb Treaty

UN Gets Israeli Cluster Bomb Map For Lebanon: 1 In 4 Undetonated

BBC | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

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Israel has handed over details of where it dropped cluster bombs in Lebanon during the war in 2006, UN peacekeeping forces have confirmed....

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Russia/Georgia: Cluster Bombs' Harm Shows Need to Join Ban

Human Rights Watch | Posted 05.15.2009 | World

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Human Rights Watch

(Geneva) -- The loss of lives and livelihoods from cluster munitions used by Russia and Georgia during the August 2008 armed conflict reinforces the i...

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Cluster Bombs In The Balkans, 10 Years Later, Still Threaten 160,000 People

Inter Press Service | Vesna Peric Zimonjic | Posted 05.09.2009 | World

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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...

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The USA: A Good World Citizen?

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 04.16.2009 | World

Read More: Cluster Bomb Treaty, Nato, Rights of Children, Conservatives, Land Mine Treaty, International Criminal Court, Law of the Sea Treaty, Global Women's Rights Treaty, Kyoto Protocol, Nicholas Sarkozy, World News
Patrick Takahashi

Popularity is tertiary to being right and humane, and now you should have a better inkling as to why we have not been really popular around the world.

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Stigmatizing War

Robert Koehler | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

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Robert Koehler

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...

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Bombs Away?

Steven Solomon and David Kaye | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

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Steven Solomon and David Kaye

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.

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