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Ban treaty advances progress in eliminating humanitarian threat of cluster bombs, with deadly exception of ongoing attacks in Syria (Geneva, 29 August 2019) – As the treaty banning cluster munitions...

Record funding for landmine clearance, but casualties remain high (Geneva, 20 November 2018): As countries strive to create a landmine-free world by 2025, international support for this goal reached...

Success in Eliminating Cluster Bombs Heightens Urgency to Stop New Attacks by Holdout States (Geneva, 30 August 2018) – Ten years after its adoption by the international community, the treaty banning...

(Washington, DC, le 14 décembre 2017) : Deux décennies après l’ouverture à la signature du traité interdisant les mines antipersonnel, l’utilisation nouvelle de ces armes par des états est...

Landmines victim numbers up in conflict zones (Washington, DC, 14 December 2017): Two decades after the treaty banning antipersonnel landmines opened for signature, new use of the weapons by states...

Cluster munition attacks spike casualty toll as world shows steadfast resolve for humanitarian ban (Geneva, 31 August 2017) – States are continuing to ratify and implement the international treaty...

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(Tokyo, 23 May 2017) – While 119 nations have joined the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions to rid the world of cluster munitions, in the past four years, 166 financial institutions invested US$31...

Over the five-year period since 2011, international support to mine action peaked in 2012 at $498.9 million, followed by a sharp decline in the next years all the way down to $352 million in 2015...

(Geneva, 19 December 2016) – On Monday, 19 December, Ahmed Asirir, spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition, announced that the use of UK-made BL-755 cluster munitions in Yemen has been stopped, also...