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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04 December 2017
US Changes Policy on Cluster Bombs
Thoummy Silamphan, a cluster munition survivor, Laos The United States is ending a long-standing policy where it committed not to use certain types of cluster munitions from 1 January 2019. The De…
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09 November 2017
United Nations Votes on Cluster Munitions Resolution
Cluster munitions in Afghanistan In October 2017, at the end of the First Committee meeting of the 72th UNGA session, states voted on the annual UN resolution on the implementation of the Conventio…
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10 October 2017
CMC addresses UN Headquarters
Elizabeth Minor, Article 36, delivering a statement at the UNGA First Committee on behalf of the Cluster Munition Coalition, 10 October 2017 ©4disarmament Statement by the Cluster Munition Coaliti…
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06 October 2017
ICAN receives Nobel Peace Prize
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded today the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), "for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitari…
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05 September 2017
South Sudan Bans Cluster Munitions
Mr. Jurkuch Barach Jurkuch, Chairperson of National Mine Action Authority of South Sudan at the 7th Meeting of States Parties. 05 August 2017 ©CMC Today, 5 September 2017, the representative of Sou…
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05 September 2017
Sri Lanka announces plan to accede to the Convention on Cluster Munitions
Delegation of Sri Lanka at the 7th Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions. 4 August 2017 ©CMC On 4 September 2017, HE. Mr. Ravinatha Aryasinha, Ambassador and Permanent R…
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01 August 2017
The Convention on Cluster Munitions turns 7!
Cluster Munition Coalition delegation at the 6th Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2016 © CMC The Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) and its members from around the wo…
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11 July 2017
Benin Ratifies Global Cluster Bomb Ban
H.E. Mr. Jean-Claude do Rego, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Benin depositing the instrument of ratification at United Nations Office of Legal Affairs. 10 July 2017 ©UN Treaty Collection T…
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11 July 2017
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Adopted
Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gomez of Costa Rica presided the negotations. ©Xanthe Hall The Cluster Munition Coalition congratulates the civil society activism which resulted in 122 nations voting in f…
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23 May 2017
Madagascar Ratifies Global Cluster Bomb Ban
Madagascar delegate at the 6th Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions @CMC The Republic of Madagascar has become the 101st State Party to the Convention on Cluster Muniti…
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04 April 2017
Stop cluster munitions use in Syria and Yemen
An unexploded M77 DPICM submunition found in Dughayj village, northern Yemen, after a cluster munition attack in June or July 2015. © 2015 Ole Solvang/Human Rights Watch 4 April, the day for Inter…
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23 March 2017
Cooperating to implement the Convention on Cluster Munitions: the country coalition concept
©CMC The President of the 7th Meeting of States Parties (7MSP) to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, Ambassador Michael Biontino of Germany, in collaboration with the EU European External Action…
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09 March 2017
Saudi-led coalition’s recent use of Brazilian-made cluster munitions targets residential areas in Yemen
Brazil urged to renounce cluster munitions
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23 February 2017
The Oslo Process: The Historic start to the cluster bomb ban
The Oslo Process culminated with the signing of the Convention on Cluster Munitions within less than two years. Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store with Soraj Ghulam Habib from Afghanistan. …
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17 February 2017
Stop Producing Cluster Bombs
Korean campaigners in Seoul demand South Korea to ban cluster bombs ©Weapon Zero Today, campaigners from Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Canada, Chile,…