(Genève, le 4 avril 2013) - Les membres de la Campagne internationale pour interdire les mines (ICBL) et de la Coalition contre les armes à sous-munitions (CMC), présents dans près de 50 pays, appellent les États à mettre immédiatement un terme à l’utilisation des mines antipersonnel et des armes à sous-munitions et à prendre leurs responsabilités face aux dégâts déjà commis.

(London, 27 November 2012): Use of cluster munitions by Syrian Armed Forces may have caused the deaths of at least 11 children and wounded others playing near their homes outside Damascus. This follows confirmed use of cluster munitions by Assad’s forces in recent months. The Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) is calling on the Syrian government to stop immediately all use of these banned weapons, and is pressing all other states to condemn this outrage.

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Nous représentons des organisations non gouvernementales et des coalitions engagées dans le désarmement humanitaire, avec comme objectif commun de protéger les civils des effets néfastes de la violence armée. Nous sommes réunis à l’occasion du 20 e anniversaire de la création de la Campagne internationale pour interdire les mines (ICBL), lauréate du Prix Nobel de la paix 1997, pour échanger, pour renforcer notre travail commun, et pour agrandir et unir notre communauté.

Global conference ends with promise to strengthen stigma against deadly weapon

(Oslo, Norway, 15 September 2012): The third annual global meeting on the ground-breaking treaty to ban cluster bombs has ended with news that many states that have not yet joined the treaty plan to do so soon.

(London, 29 August 2012) With less than two weeks to go until the Third Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Oslo next month, the coming days are a key time for Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) campaigners worldwide. At this meeting, hosted and presided over by Norway, countries will come together to advance the efforts being made to universalise the ban treaty and prevent further lives from being ruined by these indiscriminate weapons.

(London 13 July 2012): Cameroon has become latest country to ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), and the third to do so in the last three weeks.

Representatives from the capital Yaounde deposited Cameroon’s instrument of ratification at the UN in New York yesterday, making it the 74th State Party to the CCM.

On 22 June, Togo became State Party 72 after ratifying the lifesaving ban on cluster bombs, with Hungary following suit to become number 73 on 3 July.

Togo has become the 72nd State Party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions after it ratified the treaty on Friday, 22 June 2012.

Last month Togo co-organised a regional conference in neighbouring Ghana, aimed at increasing the number of African countries on board this humanitarian treaty, which bans all use, production, stockpile and transfer of deadly cluster munitions.

Sweden ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) on 23 April 2012 becoming the 71st State Party to the treaty.

African states played an instrumental role supporting a ban on cluster munitions throughout the Oslo Process to negotiate a ban treaty. Whilst most sub-Saharan African states have signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), more than half still need to ratify the Convention and seven have not signed and now need to accede. To promote the universalisation of the Convention in this region, Ghana will host the Accra Regional Conference on the Universalisation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions from 28-30 May.