Worldwide investments in CLUSTER MUNITIONS

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Countries’ Best Practices The following digest presents all states mentioned in the Countries’ Best Practices section. Legislation Belgium Ireland Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg The Netherlands New Zealand Samoa Spain Switzerland Interpretative statement Australia Bosnia and Herzegovina Cameroon Canada Colombia Congo (DR) Congo (Republic of) Costa Rica Croatia The Czech Republic France Ghana Guatemala The Holy See Hungary Lao PDR Lebanon Madagascar Malawi Malta Mexico Niger Norway Rwanda Senegal Slovenia United Kingdom Zambia 32
Introduction Investing in Cluster Munitions: What’s at Stake? Cluster Munitions and the Oslo Process The third of December 2008 marked an important day for international humanitarian law. Reports of the suffering that cluster munitions caused among civilian populations had alarmed people and drawn international attention to the issue for decades. On December 3 and 4, 94 states signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), which categorically prohibits the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions. Cluster munitions pose a serious threat to civilian populations during and after an attack. Cluster munitions are designed to blanket a large area containing one or more targets. They can be fired by artillery and rocket systems or dropped by aircraft; they spread dozens, or even hundreds, of submunitions or bomblets over an area that can be the size of several football fields. Distributing submunitions over such a broad area results in a large chance of civilian casualties during and after the attack. Many bomblets or submunitions fail to explode on impact. They remain on the ground like landmines that kill and injure civilians long after the conflict has ended. “We had been praying at around 5am at the mosque and, as we left the mosque, we heard the plane overhead going whoosh, whoosh, whoosh and then a big explosion followed. We were afraid of a second air strike so we scattered and that is when smaller explosions followed consecutively. I sustained some shrapnel injuries and I was taken to hospital right after that but the neighbourhood was covered in the small bombs. Some of them landed on cars and exploded and others inside houses. Even the water tanks were damaged.” Mohamed Saleh, a local resident of al-Sonainah neighbourhood in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen. Amnesty International collected evidence that appears to confirm reports of a cluster munitions attack by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition on 6 January 2016 that killed a 16-year-old boy and injured at least six other civilians. 14 The Oslo process started in February 2007. At the invitation of the Norwegian Government, 49 countries met after government talks in the traditional forum for weapons issues failed. The resulting Oslo Declaration called for creating by 2008 a legally binding instrument that would prohibit the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians. 15 At the ensuing international conferences, the number of supporting countries grew at a steady pace. The CCM opened for signature in December 2008. The Oslo process was marked by resolute cooperation among a broad range of actors whose common goal was to stop the humanitarian harm that cluster munitions cause. The achievements of the Mine Ban Treaty, the International Criminal Court and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities were all milestones. The CCM is yet another strong example of how a broad partnership between governments, key international organisations and civil society actors, here united in the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) XIX , can produce a convention that can make a difference for civilians during and after a conflict. XIX The Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) is an international coalition working to protect civilians from the effects of cluster munitions by promoting universal adherence to, and full implementation of, the Convention on Cluster Munitions. The CMC is active in around 100 countries around the world. See: www.stopclustermunitions.org. 33
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Regions Financial has underwritten
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Deutsche Bank’s Policy on Cluster
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COMMENTARY What does the legislatio
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Conclusion and recommendations As t
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Funds following an index 789 A fund
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