Adapted from the Presbyterian Washington Office: Ninety-five countries, including our closest NATO allies, have just signed a global treaty banning cluster bombs. The Holy See, Ireland, Norway, Sierra Leone have ratified the treaty. The United States has not yet signed…
Read more »On December 3, representatives from more than 80 countries gathered in Oslo, Norway to sign a treaty that bans cluster bombs. The United States did not take part. Cluster bombs are weapons of no discrimination that disperse hundreds of “bomblets,”…
Read more »Candidates for the U.S. House need to hear now that voters support a cluster bomb ban so that they will feel urgency to ban these indiscriminate weapons after the election. Please urge your House candidates to call for a ban…
Read more »Success in Dublin! 110 nations agreed to a groundbreaking and comprehensive new treaty to ban cluster bombs. Today’s provisional text will be formally adopted on Friday. It will be open for signatures in Oslo in December. When the formal adoption…
Read more »I’m not the only one missing the gathering in Dublin to negotiate a treaty to ban cluster bombs. The United States government is not present either. But there is a bill pending in Congress that addresses this issue. The Cluster…
Read more »Because I can’t make it to Dublin, I have signed a petition calling governments to support a treaty banning cluster bombs. More than 100 governments have gathered in Dublin along with hundreds of representatives of non-governmental organizations. They are there…
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