By giving to the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) today you can help prevent millions of cluster munitions from ever being used, from ever taking another innocent life.
The CMC is a global campaign dedicated to putting a full stop to the devastating harm cluster munitions cause.
By lobbying for states to join the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which bans all use, production, manufacture and stockpile of cluster munitions, the CMC has seen more than 64 million submunitions destroyed – each one capable of taking a life or a limb, not caring whether its victim is a child or an adult, civilian or soldier. Many governments are on board with the ban, encouraged by the CMC’s powerful messages that cluster munitions cause unacceptable harm.
But, many more governments have jet to join. Billions more cluster munitions lie in wait in stockpiles all over the world. At least 28 states are still contaminated by unexploded cluster munitions. Tens of thousands are living with the severe physical and emotional impact this terrible weapon has.
More countries need to join this ban and pledge never to use cluster munitions. Worldwide, the rights of those living with injuries caused by cluster munitions need to be better recognised.
You can help make that happen. Please give whatever you can, but here are some examples of how, amongst the CMC’s many global activities, we could use your money to increase the worldwide strength, influence and impact of this campaign:
• $50 could pay for a day’s accessible transport for one of our cluster munition survivors to attend a UN summit in Geneva, holding governments accountable to the damage this weapon causes;
• $100 could pay for one day’s participation of a CMC expert global campaigner from an affected country at an international conference on cluster munitions, bringing an invaluable perspective to government discussions;
• $150 could cover one hour of translation, allowing campaigners speaking dozens of different languages to work together and develop strong advocacy messages without difficulties;
• $500 could help pay for an in-country research team to bear witness to how cluster munitions continue to affect real people on the ground, enabling the CMC to report this back to governments;
• $1000 could help pay for one of our national campaigners to buy a computer, install software, secure an internet connection, establishing a link with the global campaign they play such a vital part of;
• $2000 could help campaigners activate public awareness-raising in their own country on the damage cluster munitions cause, travelling to their nation’s capitals to meet government officials, organising events and holding press conferences.
Thank you so much for whatever you can give.
PLEASE NOTE: If you are in France or the U.S. you can give to the CMC and benefit from federal tax deductions through our sister organisation – the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Please visit this page for details on how to do so.
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PHOTO: 12-year-old Mohammad Abd el Aal lost his leg when he stood on a cluster bomb near his home in Lebanon in 2009. Now he walks with a prosthetic leg and is free once again to roam his family's land and tend his goats as all the unexploded cluster bombs have been removed.
© Mariella Furrer/ CMC