Cluster Munitions: Decades of failure, decades of civilian casualties
DATE AND TIME
Thursday, 12 September 2024, 10:00-12:00 hours
VENUE
Palais des Nations Room XIX
ORGANIZER
Cluster Munition Coalition
INFORMATION
The history of cluster munition use – from their first use against the British port of Grimsby in 1943 through ongoing use in Ukraine today – has been a consistent story of failed submunitions scattered over enormous tracts of land, resulting in widespread contamination that lasts for decades. Civilians and their communities have consistently paid the highest price for such use, losing limbs, lives and livelihoods. Continued use of cluster munitions by States not party to the CCM, recent re-consideration of convention commitments by a State Party and provocative articles in some military journals calling for withdrawal from the CCM suggest that the history of cluster munition use is being ignored or forgotten by some.
The side event will revisit the unacceptable humanitarian consequences and technical failures of these weapons that led to their prohibition in 2008 and will foster a dialog on how our community can best uphold the convention in the current international context and further strengthen the global norm against cluster munitions.
Panelists:
- Tamar Gabelnick, ICBL-CMC
- Peter Herby, Consultant
- Mary Wareham, Human Rights Watch
- Grethe Østern, Norwegian People’s Aid
- Lt. Col. Charbel Njeim, Operations Section Head, Lebanon Mine Action Center
- Colonel (Ret.) James Burke, Military Advisor
- Alma Taslidzan, Handicap International
- Sera Koulabdara, Legacies of War
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