When only one side abides by global norms, national interests are put at risk. The global environment has shifted, and it’s ...

Trump’s targeted airstrike dismantled Iran’s nuclear sites and defused its attempted “small, victorious war,” reinforcing US ...

Since the start of the war, Russian forces have used nearly 6,000 cluster munitions against Ukraine. In particular, the enemy ...

Anti-regime forces have counted 552 aerial bombardments by Myanmar's ruling junta that resulted in the confirmed deaths of 471 civilians, since the Sagaing-Mandalay earthquake struck almost three ...

Cluster munitions were discovered in Kremenchuk following a Russian attack. They pose a serious threat to human life, ...

Europe needs cluster munitions to defend itself from Russia, two military analysts say. If the US backs away from NATO, European militaries will need them to knock out Russian air defenses.

The International Committee of the Red Cross deeply regrets Lithuania’s unprecedented withdrawal from the Convention on Cluster Munitions, effective 6 March 2025. In conflict zones, cluster munitions ...

There have been no confirmed reports or allegations of new use, production, or transfers of cluster munitions by any state party since the convention was adopted in Dublin, Ireland on May 30, 2008.

While Russia has used cluster munitions far more extensively, Ukraine has also allegedly deployed these weapons during the war, using its own Soviet-era stocks or shells obtained from other countries.

(New York, December 18, 2023) – Peru’s destruction of its stocks of cluster munitions is a major milestone for the international treaty banning the weapons, Human Rights Watch said today.

Cluster munitions have been banned by more than 100 countries because of their devastating effects, sometimes years later, on children and other civilians who mistakenly disturb and detonate ...