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Abstract This chapter explains the grave humanitarian concerns that cluster munitions have aroused and traces the processes that culminated in legal action taken to address this concern. Cluster munitions are the subject of the most recent arms control treaty, the Cluster Munitions Convention (CMC) adopted in Dublin on 30 May 2008.
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Abstract This chapter explains the grave humanitarian concerns that cluster munitions have aroused and traces the processes that culminated in legal action taken to address this concern. Cluster munitions are the subject of the most recent arms control treaty, the Cluster Munitions Convention (CMC) adopted in Dublin on 30 May 2008.
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Anatomical and neuropsychological effects of cluster munitions
Neurological Sciences, 2013The aim of this article is to investigate the effects of cluster munitions on the different environmental, anatomical and neuropsychological levels. We conducted a study to explore the effects of sub-munitions on Lebanese victims. The study included a total of 407 cases that have been subjected to the detonation of unexploded sub-munitions in Lebanon ...
Youssef, Fares, Jawad, Fares
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Cluster Munitions and State Terrorism
Monthly Review, 2011For decades, major global and regional powers have waged war against those they accuse of fighting immorally—that is, those who use terrorism to harm civilians at home and abroad. Paradoxically, these righteous “wars on terror” are being fought in an era in which the distinction between war waged only against soldiers, and war against soldiers as well ...
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Head and facial injuries due to cluster munitions
Neurological Sciences, 2014Cluster munitions are weapons that scatter smaller sub-munitions intended to kill or mutilate on impact. They have been used by the Israeli army in the south of Lebanon and are now scattered over wide rural areas affecting its inhabitants. Because of their easily "pickable" nature, sub-munitions can inflict injuries to the head and face regions.
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Contractor flight testing of cluster munitions
1988. Proceedings., Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium,, 2003Contractor management and performance of air-dispensed munition tests is considered. The authors examine issues associated with scoring for reliability performance assessment, explosive ordnance disposal, identification and resolution of safety issues, coordination of high-explosive cluster munition air drops with subcontractor and Government agencies,
S. Rives, J.H. Berk, R. Plant
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THE CLUSTER MUNITIONS CONVENTION: AROUND THE WORLD IN ONE YEAR
Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, 2008AbstractOn 3 December 2008, theConvention on Cluster Munitions(hereinafter the Convention), a legally binding instrument on cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians, was signed by 94 states in Oslo. The Convention is the result of a Norwegian initiative of November 2006 which, ultimately led to negotiations conducted in Dublin from ...
Nout van Woudenberg, Wouter Wormgoor
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Cluster munitions: a threat to health and human rights
Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 2010Over the course of 2009, dozens of nations signed a new convention on cluster munitions, and several nations ratified the convention. To determine how public health professionals can participate in preventing death and injury from cluster munitions, we review the history of these weapons, their effects on individuals and communities, the history of ...
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