Landmines and Cluster Munitions

Landmines and cluster munitions (which disperse smaller submunitions) are considered indiscriminate weapons and have caused terrible harm to civilians, often years and decades after fighting concludes. They have been banned under the Mine Ban Treaty and Convention on Cluster Munitions.

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Inteligencia Artificial y Derechos de Personas con Discapacidad: riesgos y oportunidades desde perspectivas éticas y de derechos humanos

UNESCO | August 27, 2026.

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Perspectivas feministas de la IA en el ámbito militar

IA Feminista | August 27, 2026.

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Britain Weighs Wider Arms Restrictions On Israel As Burnham Government Signals Policy Shift

AOAV | August 13, 2026.

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Inteligencia Artificial y Derechos de Personas con Discapacidad: riesgos y oportunidades desde perspectivas éticas y de derechos humanos | UNESCO | August 27, 2026. | Wanda Muñoz
Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians Gender AI/Autonomous and Emerging Weapons Landmines and Cluster Munitions
Perspectivas feministas de la IA en el ámbito militar | IA Feminista | August 27, 2026. | Wanda Muñoz
Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians Gender AI/Autonomous and Emerging Weapons Landmines and Cluster Munitions
Britain Weighs Wider Arms Restrictions On Israel As Burnham Government Signals Policy Shift | AOAV | August 13, 2026. | Iain Overton
Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas Landmines and Cluster Munitions Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians
Covering massacres, the fog of war and Nazi zombies: a novel methodological approach to reporting gun violence | Handbook on Gun Violence and Society | August 6, 2026. | Iain Overton
Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas Landmines and Cluster Munitions Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians
Stort misstag att tillåta truppminor," (Big mistake to allow anti-personnel mines) | Svenska Dagbladet | July 26, 2026. | Henrique Garbino
Landmines and Cluster Munitions Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians
Gas from Above: How UAVs Are Bringing Chemical Warfare Back to the Battlefield in Ukraine | Small Wars Journal | July 23, 2026. | Patrick Senft
Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)Landmines and Cluster Munitions Arms Trafficking
The Business of War: Who Really Benefits From Britain’s Planned Military Spending Surge? | Byline Times | July 23, 2026. | Iain Overton
Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas Landmines and Cluster Munitions Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians
An Introduction to Crater Analysis | Armament Research Services | July 20, 2026. | N.R. Jenzen-Jones
Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)Landmines and Cluster Munitions Arms Trafficking
Y mientras tanto en... la República Democrática del Congo | (And meanwhile in... the Democratic Republic of the Congo) | July 15, 2026. | Maria Pia Devoto
Latin America Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Landmines and Cluster Munitions
Lebanon bans landmines while at war; fearing one, Europe wants them back | ICBL-CMC | July 1, 2026. | Henrique Garbino
Landmines and Cluster Munitions Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians
For Healey and Carns, enough was never enough in the world of defence spending | Action on Armed Violence | June 11, 2026. | Iain Overton
Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas Landmines and Cluster Munitions Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians
Y mientras tanto en... Mali (And Meanwhile in... Mali) | on LinkedIn in Spanish and English | June 9, 2026. | Maria Pia Devoto
Latin America Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Landmines and Cluster Munitions
From Whitehall to the weapons industry: tracking a decade of MOD connections with the global military-industrial complex via their expense receipts | Action on Armed Violence | June 8, 2026. | Iain Overton
Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas Landmines and Cluster Munitions Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians
The Crowding Out Effect of U.S.-Israeli Militarization | PRISME | May 28, 2026. | Sera Koulabdara
Landmines and Cluster Munitions
A Devastating Milestone for Anyone With a Conscience | blog post | May 27, 2026. | Adam Isacson, Sera Koulabdara
Landmines and Cluster Munitions Latin America United States
Will Military Tech Firms Spark a Revolution in American Defense? | Forbes | May 24, 2026. | Sera Koulabdara, William Hartung
Landmines and Cluster Munitions United States Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Reweaving the Ruins of the American Secret War | The Diplomat | May 23, 2026. | Sera Koulabdara
Landmines and Cluster Munitions
The Leonardo Panama Affair | Corruption Tracker | May 19, 2026. | Sera Koulabdara, Jack Cinamon
Landmines and Cluster Munitions
Britain and America’s militaries are quietly abandoning civilian harm accountability. This is not good | Action on Armed Violence | May 16, 2026. | Iain Overton
Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas Landmines and Cluster Munitions Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians
Islamic State Craft-produced Light Recoilless Guns: Conventional & Chemical Variants | Special Report No. 6 | May 14, 2026. | N.R. Jenzen-Jones
Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)Landmines and Cluster Munitions Arms Trafficking
Mines anti-personnel : l’Europe laisse la peur l’emporter sur les faits | ("Anti-personnel mines: Europe lets fear prevail over facts") Institut d’études internationales de Montréal (IEIM-UQAM) | May 4, 2026. | Henrique Garbino
Landmines and Cluster Munitions Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians
Y mientras tanto en... Sudán | on LinkedIn | April 28, 2026. | Maria Pia Devoto
Latin America Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Landmines and Cluster Munitions
What a child’s drawing teaches us about war, then and now | The Hill | April 20, 2026. | Sera Koulabdara
Landmines and Cluster Munitions
Water, Food and Farmers: Evidence from Lebanon on the reverberating effects of explosive weapons | Explosive Weapons Monitor | Volume 3, No. 2 | Laura Boillot, Megan Karlshøj-Pedersen
Europe Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas Landmines and Cluster Munitions
On World Health Day, war is the greatest threat to health | MENA Research Center | April 9, 2026. | Sera Koulabdara
Landmines and Cluster Munitions