Cluster bombs will remain a reality
GenevaLunch News Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – An annual U.N. weapons conference ended in Geneva November 13 agreeing only to negotiate a "proposal" to address the humanitarian impact of cluster...
View ArticleCluster munitions and risk reduction: slow progress
GenevaLunch News Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Efforts to reduce risks to humans from cluster munitions are making slow progress despite failure to adopt a proposal to address these risks....
View ArticleSwitzerland signs cluster bombs ban Wednesday
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland and Oslo, Norway (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland on Wednesday will join more than 100 other countries in Oslo, Norway to sign the Convention on Cluster Munitions, a...
View ArticleSmall, perfect, deadly: the art of landmines
GenevaLunch News Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Raphaël Dallaporta’s landmines are things of great beauty: small, perfectly designed for the job they are meant to perform, fine colours and shapes....
View ArticleCluster bombs ban signed by 100 nations, US says would endanger soldiers
GenevaLunch News The US remains outside the group of 100 countries that Wednesday signed an agreement in Oslo to ban cluster bombs and get rid of stockpiles, saying that although the US shares the...
View ArticleSwitzerland, others start to destroy landmine stockpiles
GenevaLunch News Update 11:45 Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Several countries, including Switzerland, have begun to destroy their stockpiles of landmines ahead of the 2008 Convention on Cluster...
View ArticleSwiss gov’t consults citizens on cluster munitions treaty
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The Swiss federal government has opened a public consultation on the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), approved in Dublin in May 2008 and to date...
View ArticleUnicef: At least 20 children killed in Libya, 26 in Yemen, cluster munitions...
GenevaLunch News The United Nations agency for children affairs, Unicef, appealed for a ceasefire in Lybia saying at least 20 children had been killed in attacks by government forces. Anthony Lake,...
View ArticleSwiss gov’t cluster munitions treaty to Parliament for ratification
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss government Monday 6 June agreed, as expected, to ratify the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM). It signed the treaty in Dublin in 2008, along with...
View ArticleSyria accused of killing 10 playground children with cluster bombs
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Ten children, all under age 15, who had gone out to a playground during a lull in the fighting in their village in Syria, were killed, reportedly by cluster bombs...
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