cluster munitions

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• - Collection of articles from Human Rights Watch on the use and adverse effects of cluster bombs.
  
• - Article from Mother Jones on the growing calls for cluster bombs to be banned.
  
• - The United Nations has initiated the daunting task of clearing an estimated 25,000 unexploded cluster bomblet units dropped on Afghanistan by US warplanes.
  
• - The number of civilians prey to unexploded cluster bombs is significantly higher than admitted by governments. From The Guardian.
  
• - Provides detailed technical information, accompanied by annotated diagrams, about a number of types of US Air Force cluster bombs.
  
• - Highlights the hazards posed to civilians by cluster bombs and the failure of Western government to provide clearance assistance. From Z magazine.
  
• - Includes a photo gallery organized by country, and NGO statements in support of a moratorium on their production and use at the Convention on Conventional Weapons meetings in Geneva.
  
• - Unexploded bombs are more of a threat to civilians in former war zones than landmines, according to a report by a coalition of more than 50 charities. From CNN.
  
• - Describes how the Mines Advisory Group has been involved in clearing cluster bomblets from Kosovo.
  
• - Calls for Canadians to lobby politicians to ban cluster bombs.
  
• - Companion website to ITVS documentary, "Bombies", on the effects of unexploded ordnance - including cluster bombs - in Laos.
  
• - Describes the threat that NATO and Serbian cluster bombs still pose to the population of Kosovo. From the Christian Science Monitor.
  
• - Describes the adverse effects of cluster bombs, with information on specific bomb types.