2008, towards a ban treaty
Convention on Cluster Munitions :
...an historical breakthrough?
- © DR
• The cluster bomb ban treaty was signed the 3rd of December in Oslo.
• This treaty represents an unprecedented advance in international humanitarian law.
• Stages of the banning process
• The Treaty to ban Cluster Munitions: Q&A
• Video: learn more about cluster bombs
• Press review, 3rd December
“A soon-to-be-illegal weapon”
- © JJ. Bernard / Handicap International
For Jean-Baptiste, Executive Director of Handicap International, "In future, countries which are not signatories who wish to use this weapon will do so in the knowledge that they are resorting to an illegal weapon. And that changes everything".
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CMC Analyse of the Convention on Cluster Munitions:
