Cluster Bombs

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

BBC | Posted 06.13.2009 | World


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

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

Human Rights Watch | Posted 05.15.2009 | World


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...

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

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...

Cluster Bomb Kills 52 At Sri Lankan Hospital

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...

Obama Administration Needs to Take a Stand on Cluster Bombs

Donald Steinberg | Posted 05.07.2009 | World


Donald Steinberg

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.

Hillary Clinton Brings Hawkish Record to State Department

Stephen Zunes | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics


Stephen Zunes

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...

Over 100 Nations Back Cluster Bomb Ban, US And Russia Refuse

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...

Forty Years After 'Secret War' In Laos, Countries Sign Convention Banning Cluster Bombs

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...

Stigmatizing War

Robert Koehler | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics


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...

Bombs Away?

Steven Solomon and David Kaye | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics


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.

Eat Your Heart Out Gandhi

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics


Jayne Lyn Stahl

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.

The United States of Cluster Bombs

Steven Crandell | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics


Steven Crandell

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.