Georgia ‘also used cluster bombs’
Following human rights groups’ condemnation of Russia’s use of cluster bombs in Georgia, Human Rights Watch has revealed that Georgia also used such munitions during the fighting. The Georgian Defense...
View ArticleCluster Munition Use in Georgia ‘Worse Than Was Reported’
Human Rights Watch says that an assessment mission to Georgia found that cluster munition use in the war with Russia was worse than reported by the media. A clearance organization reported dud rates —...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Documents Impact of Cluster Munitions in Georgia
Human Rights Watch released a report today outlining the impact of cluster munitions deployed during the Russia-Georgia conflict last year. “The loss of lives and livelihoods from cluster munitions...
View ArticleAngola: Countries Involved in War Should Pay for Demining
Angola’s social welfare minister, Joao Baptista Kussuma, said yesterday that the countries which had been involved in Angola’s civil war — such as the USA, Russia, Cuba and South Africa — should pay...
View ArticleChechen Landmine Campaigner Murdered
I was deeply shocked and saddened to learn today of the brutal killing of Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband, Alik Dzhabrailov. Ms. Sadulayeva was a tireless campaigner for mine action in Chechnya....
View ArticleExaminer Op-Ed: Investigate Killing of Landmine Campaigner
I wrote an opinion column in The Examiner (Independence, MO, USA) this weekend calling on Russian and Chechen authorities to “do everything they can to ensure an independent investigation” into the...
View ArticleVictory for Norm Against Cluster Munitions!
The campaign against cluster munitions successfully defeated an attempt to undermine the Cluster Munition Ban at a conference of the Convention on Conventional Weapons last week. Over 50 states, led by...
View ArticleArms Trade Treaty in Last-Minute Jeopardy?: Russia, North Korea, Cuba and USA...
Speaking this morning in a plenary of the Diplomatic Conference of the Arms Trade Treaty, the USA, Russia, Venezuela, North Korea and Cuba hinted that they wanted to leave the month-long negotiations...
View ArticleFinding Beauty in the Ugly End to the Arms Trade Treaty Conference: The...
Global Policy‘s Comment and Editorial section just posted my final commentary piece on the Arms Trade Treaty Diplomatic Conference in New York. The negotiations came to a frayed inconclusive end last...
View ArticleNo New Information on the Consequences of Nuclear Weapons?
Deconstructing Nuclear Discourse at the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference Adapted and republished from a version published in NPT News in Review. Many diplomatic discussions of...
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