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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Protecting civilians from the reverberating effects of explosive weapons in populated areas | Article 36 | February 23, 2021. | Laura Boillot
Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas Landmines and Cluster Munitions Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians
Why (ex-) military should express their concerns on fully autonomous weapon systems | self-published on LinkedIn | February 16, 2021. | Lode Dewaegheneire
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Addressing The Threat Of Autonomous Weapons | Friedrich Ebert Stiftung | 2021 | Matthew Breay Bolton
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Gender Equality across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus | OECD | 2021 | Júlia Codina Sariols
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No safe recovery: The impact of Explosive Ordnance contamination on affected populations in Iraq | Humanity & Inclusion | 2021 | Alma Taslidžan
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Report of the Panel of Experts on Libya established pursuant to resolution 1973 (2011). S/2021/229. | United Nations | 1973 | Adrian Wilkinson
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UAE Arms Sales Survive Senate Vote | Arms Control Today | January/February 2021 | Jeff Abramson
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Inclusiveness: The Future of the New and Improved 'Normal | Disarmament Dialogue blog | December 21, 2020. | Alma Taslidžan
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Youth Campaigners Rock the RevCon | Disarmament Dialogue blog | December 15, 2020. | Erin Hunt
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Cluster Munition Monitor 2020 | The Monitor | 2020 | Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan
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Landmine Monitor 2020 | The Monitor | 2020 | Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan
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Seeing through the Rubble; The civilian impact of the use of explosive weapons in the fight against ISIS | Airwars and PAX | November 2020 | Roos Boer
Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas Landmines and Cluster Munitions
Youth and Disarmament Education | Reaching Critical Will | Volume 18, No. 3 | Allison Pytlak, Laura Boillot, Matthew Breay Bolton
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In Search of Enemies: The Governments holding Humanitarian Disarmament Hostage | Nonviolence International Canada | October 23, 2020. | Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan
Landmines and Cluster Munitions Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)Asia/Oceania Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians Gender AI/Autonomous and Emerging Weapons Latin America Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)
Youth and Disarmament Education | Reaching Critical Will | Volume 18, No. 2 | Laura Boillot, Matthew Breay Bolton, Ray Acheson
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A decade of global IED harm reviewed | Action on Armed Violence | October 15, 2020. | Iain Overton
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Stigmatizing Cluster Munitions: A Decade of Success | Arms Control Today | 2020 | Erin Hunt
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War is Boring – But We Need to Scrutinise the Military More than Ever | Byline Times | September 29, 2020. | Iain Overton
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New Book Shows Catastrophic Folly of Automating Warfare | International Committee for Robot Arms Control | September 20, 2020. | Matthew Breay Bolton
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Explosive violence monitor 2019 | Action on Armed Violence | September 4, 2020. | Iain Overton
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Armas autónomas: una cuestión de derechos humanos, no de tecnología, y esto es lo que debes saber | SEHLAC Mexico | 2020 | Wanda Muñoz
Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians Gender AI/Autonomous and Emerging Weapons Landmines and Cluster Munitions
First Committee Briefing Book 2020 | Reaching Critical Will | 2020 | Laura Boillot, Natalie Goldring
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Los riesgos de las armas autónomas: una perspectiva interseccional latinoamericana | (“The risks of autonomous weapons: a Latin American intersectional perspective”) SEHLAC México | 2020 | Wanda Muñoz
Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians Gender AI/Autonomous and Emerging Weapons Landmines and Cluster Munitions
Firearm with 3D-printed frame recovered following police shooting in California | Armament Research Services | August 14, 2020. | N.R. Jenzen-Jones
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The Arms Trade Treaty In 2020—A Lost Year? | Reaching Critical Will | Volume 13, No. 3 | Maria Pia Devoto
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