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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The US-Russia Crisis Over Ukraine: All Options Should Not Be On the Table | Just Security | January 18, 2022. | Daryl G. Kimball
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Looking Ahead: Civilians Must Be Protected from Bombing and Shelling in Towns and Cities | Forum on the Arms Trade | January 13, 2022. | Brian Castner
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ARES Arms and Munitions Classification System | Armament Research Services | August 12, 2022. | N.R. Jenzen-Jones
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Armar en Ucrania: la violencia seguirá después de la guerra | El Orden Mundial | 2022 | Júlia Codina Sariols
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Congress Fails to Block Saudi Arms Sales | Arms Control Today | January/February 2022 | Jeff Abramson
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Mine action and the reintegration of former combatants: expanding the debate | The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction | 2022 | Henrique Garbino
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Report of the Panel of Experts on Libya established pursuant to resolution 1973 (2011). S/2022/427. | United Nations | 1973 | Adrian Wilkinson
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Sri Lanka Landmines and Cluster Munitions Monitor 2022 | Forum on Disarmament and Development & Sri Lanka Campaign to Ban Landmines | 2022 | Vidya Abhayagunawardena
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The Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus Interim Progress Review | OECD | 2022 | Júlia Codina Sariols
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The origins and influence of victim assistance: Contributions of the Mine Ban Treaty, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Convention on Cluster Munitions | International Review of the Red Cross | December 6, 2022. | Bonnie Docherty
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The risks of autonomous weapons: an analysis centre on the rights of persons with disabilities | International Review of the Red Cross | December 6, 2022. | Jesús Martínez, Wanda Muñoz
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Understanding the logic of rebel restraint on landmine use | The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction | 2022 | Henrique Garbino
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Afghanistan: No escape: War crimes and civilian harm during the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban | Amnesty International | December 15, 2021. | Brian Castner
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The Improvised Explosive Device and ‘The Propaganda of the Deed | Action on Armed Violence | December 13, 2021. | Iain Overton
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Countries Grapple With 2025 Landmine Goal | Arms Control Today | December 2021 | Jeff Abramson
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Put out The Fire; Strengthening International Law and Divestment policies on Incendiary Weapons | PAX | December 2021 | Roos Boer
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Landmine Monitor 2021 | International Campaign to Ban Landmines | November 10, 2021. | Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan
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First Committee Monitor: Volume 19, No. 5 | Reaching Critical Will | Volume 19, No. 5 | Allison Pytlak, Matthew Breay Bolton, Ray Acheson
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The area effects of weapons and the risk of civilian harm | Article 36 | November 2021 | Laura Boillot
Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas Landmines and Cluster Munitions Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians
U.S. Continues Controversial Arms Assistance | Arms Control Today | November 1, 2021. | Jeff Abramson
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Global Landmines and Cluster Munitions
Special Report 4 - Munitions Employing Sensor-fuzed Submunitions: Do they Comply with the Convention on Cluster Munitions? | Armament Research Services (ARES) | October 29, 2021. | N.R. Jenzen-Jones
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First Committee Monitor: Volume 19, No. 4 | Reaching Critical Will | Volume 19, No. 4 | Allison Pytlak, Matthew Breay Bolton, Ray Acheson
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First Committee Monitor: Volume 19, No. 3 | Reaching Critical Will | Volume 19, No. 3 | Allison Pytlak, Matthew Breay Bolton, Ray Acheson
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First Committee Monitor: Volume 19, No. 2 | Reaching Critical Will | Volume 19, No. 2 | Allison Pytlak, Matthew Breay Bolton, Ray Acheson
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ATT Members Highlight Small Arms, Light Weapons | Arms Control Today | 2021 | Jeff Abramson
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