Cluster Munition Coalition

The Cluster Munition Coalition, a network of nongovernmental organizations including the ICBL and Amnesty International, had spearheaded efforts to prohibit the devices on the grounds that unexploded bomblets present a lethal risk to civilians long after a conflict has ended. The Convention on Cluster Munitions was…

…nongovernmental organizations gathered as the Cluster Munition Coalition, and the United Nations proposed a moratorium on the use of cluster munitions. The following year the European Parliament called upon European Union members to cease the production, export, and use of cluster munitions and to work toward an international treaty restricting…