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Help Ban Cluster Bombs Now! Sign the People's Treaty

The Cluster Munitions Convention's signing ceremony will take place in Oslo, Norway, from 2-3 December 2008. That is only two months to ensure that countries – your country – will be ready to sign the treaty! To keep pressure on governments, sign the People's Treaty now.

(02/06/2008, last updated: 22/09/2008) Read more »

CMC Press Release - Momentum Builds as Cluster Bomb Ban Signing Approaches

More than two dozen African governments announce their intent to sign the treaty on 3 December 2008

(Kampala, Uganda, September 30, 2008) - With two months remaining until the international treaty banning cluster bombs is opened for signature in Norway, civil society representatives are calling on all states to announce their intent to sign. All of the 42 African states gathered in Kampala for a regional conference today agreed to an action plan that calls for the earliest possible signature and ratification and 28 made firm commitments to sign on December 3 2008. Most if not all the 107 states that adopted the treaty in Dublin last May are expected to sign in Oslo and worldwide a total of 43 governments have already committed do so.

(02/10/2008, last updated: 02/10/2008) Read more »

CMC Media Statement - Africa Continues to Lead the Way on Cluster Bomb Ban

(Kampala, Uganda: 29 September 2008) – Forty African governments gathered in Uganda today at a meeting to promote signature of a groundbreaking treaty banning cluster bombs. The Cluster Munition Coalition, an international network of campaigners and cluster bomb survivors, called on all African governments to unite in signing the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Oslo on 3 December 2008.

(29/09/2008, last updated: 29/09/2008) Read more »