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- Title
The Time Is Now: A Historical Argument for a Cluster Munitions Convention.
- Authors
Docherty, Bonnie
- Abstract
The article supports the negotiation for the drafting of a cluster munitions convention which can be acceptable to advocates and achievable by states. There is a 150-year-long history of regulating and banning weapons that cause excessive humanitarian harm to combatants or civilians. Cluster munitions cause humanitarian harm because many of their sub-munitions do not explode on impact as designed. As such they become de facto land mines and merits its regulation and banning.
- Subjects
MILITARY weapons; DISARMAMENT; TREATIES; HUMANITARIAN law; LAND mines; INTERNATIONAL cooperation
- Publication
Harvard Human Rights Journal, 2007, Vol 20, p53
- ISSN
1057-5057
- Publication type
Article