Creating Consensus: The Journey Towards Banning Cluster Munitions

Cluster bombs are deceptively small and devastatingly deadly. Resembling innocuous metal canisters — some even painted to look like soda cans — they scatter submunitions across vast areas that lie dormant for years, even decades, acting as de facto landmines. An estimated 98% of cluster munition casualties are civilians, a third of them children.Since the Second World War, these weapons have been ...