Media
This section of the site is aimed at members of the media interested in issues related to cluster munitions.
A central goal of the CMC is to raise public awareness about the importance of embracing the ban on cluster bombs. In collaboration with our CMC members in over 100 countries, we provide up to date and relevant information to journalists covering related topics.
News
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27 November 2012
Further outrage as children are latest victims of Syria cluster bomb attacks
A screenshot from an unverified video posted by opposition activists purportedly showing cluster bombs in Deir al-Asafir (London, 27 November 2012): Use of cluster munitions by Syrian Armed Forces ma…
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02 November 2012
CMC Statement at the UN First Committee on Disarmament
On 1 November 2012 the Cluster Munition Coalition submitted a statement to the United Nations’ First Committee on Disarmament and International Security. It emphasized the widespread rejection of clus…
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24 October 2012
Humanitarian Disarmament Campaigns Summit calls for strong disarmament initiatives to strengthen international law and protect civilians
Civil society representatives deliver the Communique to Angela Kane, the United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs. (c) John Ennis On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Inter…
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13 October 2012
SYRIA USE OF CLUSTER BOMBS CONFIRMED - STATES MUST PUBLICLY CONDEMN THIS OUTRAGE
A screenshot from a video compiled by Human Rights watch, showing a collection of YouTube footage of cluster bombs recently dropped in Syria (London, 14 October 2012): Following evidence released by C…
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10 October 2012
Australia ratifies cluster bomb ban
Australia signs the Convention at the CCM signing conference in Oslo, Norway 2008. Photo credit: Gunnar Mjaugedal/catchlight.no(London 10 October 2012): Australia has become State Party 77 to the Conv…
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27 September 2012
Peru ratifies cluster bomb ban
H.E. Mr. Rafael Roncagliolo Orbegoso deposits Peru's instrument of ratification at the UN in New York on Wednesday 26 September 2012 Peru has ratified the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, becom…
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14 September 2012
More countries plan to join lifesaving cluster bomb ban
Global conference ends with promise to strengthen stigma against deadly weapon CMC Director Laura Cheeseman and part of the CMC's delegation of 150 campaigners listening to states speak at the 3MSP. P…
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11 September 2012
Cluster bomb ban movement returns to Oslo
More than 100 Governments to Discuss Cluster Bomb Ban: Many ban treaty hold-outs to attend global meetingOpening session of the Convention on Cluster Munitions Third Meeting of States Parties in Oslo.…
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10 September 2012
CMC CAMPAIGNER PROFILE #2: DANIJEL IVIC, ASSISTANCE ADVOCACY ACCESS – SERBIA, and CIVILIAN WAR VICTIMS ASSOCIATION.
Daniel Ivic taking part in a field visit to land contaminated with cluster bombs in Lao PDR, 2010 (c) PPPS(Oslo, 8 September 2012) With less than 24 hours to go until the Third Meeting of States Parti…
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07 September 2012
CMC Campaign and Communications Internship Opportunity
The ICBL-CMC is currently recruiting an intern to provide support for its campaigning and communications work. Based in the London office the Campaign and Communication Intern will be involved in a ra…
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06 September 2012
Impressive Progress on Total Ban on Cluster Bombs: Rapid destruction of stockpiles is saving lives
Hisham Delbani from Norwegian People's Aid Lebanon with cluster munition remnants in Lebanon 2011. Photo credit: Kassim Gahosseain / Norwegian People's Aid Lebanon.(London, 6 September 2012): Governme…
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04 September 2012
NEW REPORT SHOWS GROUND-BREAKING GLOBAL BAN RAPIDLY REDUCING THREAT FROM CLUSTER MUNITIONS
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29 August 2012
CMC Campaigner profile #1: Sak Sopheak and Chan Man, Cambodia Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Bombs
CMC Campaigners Sak Sopheak (left) and Chan Man (right), Cambodia Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Bombs. Photo Credit: Joe van Troost.(London, 29 August 2012) With less than two weeks to go unti…
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21 August 2012
Australia passes controversial legislation to enforce cluster bomb ban
Australia set to become State Party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions(London, 21 August 2012) The Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) is disappointed that the Australian government has passed flawed…
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17 August 2012
Australia poised to pass dubious law to implement cluster bomb ban
Survivor Soraj Ghulam Habib outside the Australian Senate in Canberra last year. Photo credit: CMCCMC calls on government to revise draft law(London, 17 August 2012) The Australian government is pois…
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10 August 2012
In remembrance of cluster bomb victims worldwide
"Today, the dream has become reality. Our land that we were deprived of because of cluster bombs has been returned to us." – Hassan Hashem, pictured on his now safe land. Photo credit: MAG Lebanon(Fr…
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02 August 2012
Campaign call as important now as ever
(London, 2 August 2012): Yesterday, a global day of action marking the second anniversary of the Convention on Cluster Munitions becoming international law, dozens of great campaign actions by CMC me…
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01 August 2012
Global campaign actions mark Olympian success of ground-breaking cluster bomb ban
A CMC campaigner in Seoul dressed as a cluster bomb confronts passers-by. Photo credit: Weapon Zero(London, 1 August 2012) The second anniversary of the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) becoming…
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18 July 2012
Switzerland ratifies Cluster Bomb Ban
Switzerland signs the Convention at the CCM signing conference in Oslo, Norway 2008. Photo credit: Gunnar Mjaugedal/catchlight.no Switzerland ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 17 July 20…
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13 July 2012
Cameroon ratifies Cluster Bomb Ban
Lea Ekame of the Prime Minister's Office presents a copy of the Cameroon instrument of ratification at the Accra regional conference in Ghana. Photo credit: CMC(London 13 July 2012): Cameroon has beco…
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12 July 2012
CMC concerned over reports of cluster munition use in Syria
If confirmed, reports would mark first use of these indiscriminate arms by SyriaA screenshot of the YouTube video uploaded by "Afamia1985" shows unexploded Soviet-made AO-1Sch submunitions, small frag…
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11 July 2012
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits COPE in Lao PDR
Hillary Clinton's message in the COPE visitor centre comments book(London, 11 July 2012) Hillary Clinton was in Vientiane, Lao PDR today – the first US Secretary of State to visit in 57 years. Her tri…
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09 July 2012
Campaign Director of the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC)
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Director for the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) to lead the civil society campaign on the ratification and accession to the Convention on Cluster Munitions a…
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04 July 2012
Hungary ratifies Cluster Bomb Ban and becomes 73rd State Party to the Treaty
Hungary signs the Convention at the CCM signing conference in Oslo, Norway 2008. Photo credit: Gunnar Mjaugedal/catchlight.noHungary ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 03 July 2012 becomi…
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25 June 2012
Togo ratifies cluster bomb ban
Accra Regional Conference on the Universalisation of the CCM. From the right: Togo delegate and Second Secretary Mr Komlan A. Narteh-Messan, Ms Julie Tenenbaum from the International Committee of the …
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14 June 2012
Stop funding cluster bomb producers
German members of parliament receive the 2012 disinvestment report. From left: Roos Boer (IKV Pax Christi), Christoph Schnurr (FDP), Inge Hoeger (Die Linke), Suzanne Oosterwijk (IKV Pax Christi/clust…
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30 May 2012
Africa unites against cluster bombs
Delegates stand for the Ghanaian national anthem at the opening of the Accra Regional Conference. Photo credit: CMC Regional meeting concludes with strong Accra Action Plan(Accra, 30 May 2012): A meet…
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28 May 2012
Africa Unite: Accra Regional Conference
African states played an instrumental role supporting a ban on cluster munitions throughout the Oslo Process to negotiate a ban treaty. Today Ghana marked an important day on the national calendar as …
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24 May 2012
CMC calls on Sudanese government to investigate cluster bomb use allegations: Sudan must join 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions
The remnants of the tail section of an RBK-500 AO-2.5RT cluster bomb found near the village of Ongolo in southern Sudan. The presence of the retaining rod, projecting upwards from the tail, indicates…
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10 May 2012
CMC urges Canada not to buckle to U.S. pressure and to re-draft dangerous cluster bomb law
Canada becomes one of the first countries to join the cluster bomb ban by signing the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008. This new law, if adopted, will undermine their pledge to stop the harm th…
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24 April 2012
SWEDEN RATIFIES CLUSTER BOMB BAN
Sweden signs the Convention at the CCM signing conference in Oslo, Norway 2008. Photo credit: Gunnar Mjaugedal/catchlight.no Sweden ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) on 23 April 2012 …
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20 April 2012
World works together to destroy millions of cluster submunitions
Delegates at the Intersessional Meeting of the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Geneva. Photo credit: CMC Members of ground-breaking ban treaty have already eliminated half their stocks of weapon, g…
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18 April 2012
Working together for a world free of cluster bombs
Clearance demonstration on a field trip to Xieng Khouang, Lao PDR during the First Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions. Photo credit: Stefano Chiolo/CMC (Geneva, 18 April …
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17 April 2012
Progress being made on victim assistance - governments report - but more needs to be done
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.(Geneva, 17 April 2012) Under the Convention on Cluster Munitions victim assistance is not optional: all States Parties must provide physical and psychological reha…
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16 April 2012
"Power in numbers" - more countries to ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions
CMC Director Laura Cheeseman presents at the Intersessional Meeting in Geneva. Photo credit: CMC (Geneva, 16 April 2012) This week’s meeting to discuss worldwide progress on the ban on cluster muniti…
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15 April 2012
CMC intersessional meetings take place in Geneva
CMC campaigner Habbouba Aoun speaks at the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Beirut, September 2011. (Geneva, 16 April 2012): Government representatives from a…
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28 March 2012
Cambodian campaigners receive justice and peace Award
Campaigners from Cambodia call on South Korea to join the Convention on Cluster Munitions and the Mine Ban Treaty. Photo credit: Cambodia Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Munitions The Cambodia C…
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22 March 2012
Honduras becomes 70th State Party to cluster bomb ban
H.E. Ms. Mary Elizabeth Flores Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative of Honduras deposit the instrument of ratification at the United Nations in New York. Photo credit…
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13 March 2012
Côte d’Ivoire ratifies cluster bomb ban
Cluster bombs, indiscriminate weaponsThe Republic of Côte d’Ivoire became the 69th State Party to the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions after depositing its instrument of ratification on 12 March, …
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20 February 2012
Recruitment: ICBL-CMC internship (Geneva office)
ICBL-CMC internship - job decriptionThe ICBL-CMC is currently looking for interns in its Geneva-based office to provide support to a small and dynamic team.The ICBL and the CMC are global networks of …
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02 February 2012
Mauritania ratifies cluster bomb ban
H. E. Mr. Abderrahim Ould Hadrami Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative of Mauritania signs the Convention on Cluster Munitions: April 2010. Photo Credit: United Nation…