Amid stalled peace talks, Russia is increasingly attacking Ukrainian cities with cluster munitions, banned by international ...

The treaty, signed by representatives of 120 countries, was widely celebrated as a monumental achievement. That year, the ...

By Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International As NATO states meet in the Hague this week, they face tough ...

The basic German 500-pound aerial bomb, effective against buildings and other structures, was supplemented by cluster bombs, like the AB-250 scattering 108 four-pound antipersonnel bomblets.

Its versatile armament made it an excellent ground attack platform, as it could utilize everything from anti-personnel cluster bombs to 2,000-pound bombs to Maverick missiles.

Cluster Munition Monitor, a report, says that more than 95% of people (whose status was recorded) killed and wounded by these bombs in 2022 were civilians. Children made up 71% of casualties.

As a result, in 1997 the Ottawa Treaty was agreed by 133 states, banning the use of anti-personnel mines. Cluster bombs, which are made up of a single device spreading about 100 bomblets over an area ...

We continue to stockpile at least 3 million anti-personnel landmines and over 5 million cluster munitions, all of which are potential instruments of death and destruction.

Poland and the Baltic states have taken a first step towards quitting a treaty banning anti-personnel mines, citing an increased security threat from Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.

Cluster bombs, for example, leave “large areas with unexploded ordnance for years or even decades”, according to Amnesty. “Unexploded munitions become de facto minefields.” ...

The authorities in Kyiv have accused Moscow of “genocidal activities” for using anti-personnel mines during the conflict. Lithuania, a country of 2.8 million people which was previously under Soviet ...

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