UN Gets Israeli Cluster Bomb Map For Lebanon: 1 In 4 Undetonated
Israel has handed over details of where it dropped cluster bombs in Lebanon during the war in 2006, UN peacekeeping forces have confirmed....
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 05.15.2009 | World
(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 05.09.2009 | World
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...
Press Trust Of India | T V Sriram | Posted 03.07.2009 | World
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...
Donald Steinberg | Posted 05.07.2009 | World
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.
Stephen Zunes | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics
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 01.03.2009 | World
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 01.02.2009 | World
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 07.24.2008 | Politics
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 07.09.2008 | Politics
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 06.11.2008 | Politics
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 06.07.2008 | Politics
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.
BBC | Posted 06.13.2009 | World