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Last inning of Oslo process to ban cluster munitions

The Dublin Diplomatic Conference on Cluster Munitions will take place from 19-30 May 2008 in Dublin, Ireland. It is the crucial conference that will aim at negotiating a new instrument of international humanitarian law banning cluster munitions.

make it happen - the movie

Werner Anderson and Norwegian People’s Aid present ”make it happen”, a photographic portrait of the human suffering that triggered the Oslo process to ban cluster munitions

Faith Leaders' Appeal for an International Treaty to Ban Cluster Munitions

As people of faith, we raise our voices for the protection of life and promotion of peace by calling on all governments to end the production, transfer, stockpiling, and use of cluster bombs.

Strong landmark African declaration to ban cluster bombs

At the conclusion of the first ever meeting of African countries on cluster bombs, 38 out of 39 countries attending the meeting endorsed a strong political "Livingstone Declaration", committing them to negotiating a global ban on the weapons in Dublin next month. Only South Africa, one of the continent's two producer states, called for exceptions to the ban.

Historic step forward for treaty to ban cluster bombs

After a week of tough diplomatic talks, the voice of survivors and committed states has prevailed and a draft treaty to ban cluster munitions has been endorsed for formal negotiation.

Conference on Cluster Munitions

The Wellington Conference on Cluster Munitions: The last preparatory conference of the 'Oslo Process', an international initiative to ban cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians, assist survivors and affected communities and ensure clearance of their land.

M85 presentation

The main conclusions of the M85 report were presented in plenary at the Vienna Conference on Cluster Munitions 6 December.

New report: M85 - higher failure rate

Producers and stockpilers of M85 have argued that their tests show that the failure rate for this bomblet type is only 1% or 2%, this new report proves that the failure rate for this bomblet in Lebanon was around 10%.

No hope for cluster bomb ban in Geneva but momentum grows for Vienna treaty talks

Cluster munition talks proved fruitless in Geneva as the focus shifts to a major international conference in Vienna to develop a ban treaty. Cluster munitions have been the central issue at the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) at the United Nations, as proposals for future work were consistently weakened in the backrooms and almost no substantive work was undertaken on the issue.

Ambitious UN position on cluster munitions

The UN has recently adopted a new and ambitious position on cluster munitions. The decision was taken on 17 September in the so-called Meeting of Principles of the UN Interagency Coordination Group, which includes all the UN organizations from UNICEF to UNDP.

Cluster munitions gallery

NPA and Cluster Munitions Coalition has developed a web gallery with pictures of cluster bombs and cluster bomb damage.

Australian documentary

The Australian television show Dateline has made a documentary called "Ban the Bomlets", about cluster munition, showing some of NPA's work and fotage from the Oslo meeting.

The speeches from the Oslo meeting on cluster munitions

Listen to the speeches held at the Cluster Munition meeting in Oslo in February.

Yellow killers

NATO's use of cluster munition in Serbia in 1999 still demands victims today. The report "Yellow killers" shows that when cluster munitions are used, sivilians suffer the most

Update on NPA's work against cluster munitions

NPA has during the course of the last year stepped up our involvement in the campaign to ban cluster munitions. This has had concrete results on the Norwegian home front and sparked the Norwegian government to take the initiative for an international process aiming to negotiate a ban on cluster munitions.

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