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1 May 2009 - The Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) today accepted the 2008 Tipperary International Peace Award in recognition of its successful five-year campaign to outlaw cluster bombs.
As governments from all regions in the world gather in Oslo, Norway, today for the signing of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) also celebrates the anniversary of the signing of the Mine Ban Treaty.
The Mine Ban Treaty and Convention on Cluster Munitions were both inspired by the need to put people’s lives before any dubious political or military considerations. Together, the two conventions will create an ever stronger framework to protect civilians from further suffering and to address the effects of past use of indiscriminate weapons such as antipersonnel mines and cluster munitions.
New treaty also obligates governments to provide victim assistance and to clear contaminated land.
Oslo, Dec 3rd, 2008 - Today in Oslo, governments from around the world are signing the most significant disarmament and humanitarian treaty of the decade, banning the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions, and obligating them to provide victim assistance and to clear contaminated land. Signatories of the Convention on Cluster Munitions include many of the world`s producers, stockpilers and past users, as well as some of the most seriously affected states. Close to fifty foreign, defense and government ministers from around the world are signing the treaty, demonstrating the high level of political commitment to urgently rid the world of cluster munitions.
Heads of State, Foreign Ministers and senior government representatives from over 100 countries are expected to gather in Oslo to sign a worldwide ban on the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster bombs. It will be the most significant humanitarian and disarmament treaty of the decade.
In the lead up to the Oslo Signing Conference which will be held in Oslo, Norway on 3 December 2008, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, member of the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC), held on 30 October a lunchtime briefing for Arabic Missions in Geneva on the historic new Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM). The CCM was negotiated in May and adopted in Dublin by 107 countries on 30 May 2008 and will be signed Oslo as a successful culmination of the “Oslo Process on Cluster Munitions”.
During its 2nd International Rendez-Vous, held in Geneva, Paris and Abu Dhabi from 8 to 15 October, the French film festival Cinéma Vérité called on its prestigious guests to support the Convention on Cluster Munitions by signing the People’s Treaty.
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.
(Sofia, September 18, 2008) – Today the Cluster Munition Coalition challenged governments of southeast Europe to sign the new international treaty banning cluster bombs when it is opened for signature this December.
The campaign issued its call at the opening of a regional meeting on cluster munitions in Sofia, Bulgaria.
(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.
Panel of speakers at the Briefing. Copyright ICBL.
In the lead up to the African Conference on Cluster Munitions, which will be held in Kampala, Uganda on 29-30 September 2008, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, member of the Cluster Munitions Coalition (CMC), held a 16 September lunchtime briefing for African Missions in Geneva on the historic new Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM). The CCM was negotiated in May and adopted in Dublin by 107 countries on 30 May 2008 and will be signed in Oslo, Norway on 3 December 2008 in the successful culmination of the “Oslo Process on Cluster Munitions”.
After admitting use, Georgia must sign global treaty banning weapon
(Geneva, September 2, 2008) – A network of 250 non-governmental organisations across 70 countries has condemned Georgia’s use of cluster munitions, just three months after 107 nations agreed to ban the weapon. In a letter to Human Rights Watch, the Georgian Defense Ministry stated that cluster bombs were “used against Russian military equipment and armament marching from Roki tunnel to Dzara road [sic],” but that they “were never used against civilians, civilian targets and civilian populated or nearby areas.” The majority of the world's nations that have banned the weapon have declared any use of any cluster munition in any location unacceptable, because of the harm they cause to civilians during and after conflict.
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