onitor 2010

Cluster Munition Monitor 2010

Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor Editorial Board
Mines Action Canada • Action On Armed Violence • Handicap International
Human Rights Watch • Norwegian People’s Aid

© October 2010 by Mines Action Canada
All rights reserved
Printed and bound in Canada

ISBN: 978-0-9738955-6-8
Cover photograph © Tim Dirven, 2008
Cover design by Rafael Jiménez

Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor provides research and monitoring for the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), and is formally a program of the ICBL. For more information visit www.the-monitor.org or email monitor@icbl.org.

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Cluster Munition Coalition

The Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) is an international civil society campaign working to eradicate cluster munitions, prevent further casualties from these weapons, and put an end for all time to the suffering they cause. The CMC works through its members to change the policy and practice of governments and organizations toward these aims and raise awareness of the problem among the public.

The CMC has three overall objectives:

1. Universal adherence to the Convention on Cluster Munitions and the emerging global norm rejecting the use, production, stockpiling, and transfer of cluster munitions and obligating land clearance, victim assistance, stockpile destruction, and international cooperation and assistance.

2. Effective implementation of and full compliance with the Convention on Cluster Munitions by all States Parties, with compatible steps taken by states not party; and effective monitoring, including by civil society, of all such efforts.

3. The CMC is an active, diverse, well-governed, and developing international campaign that works in partnership with governments, international organizations, survivors, their families and communities, and other actors to communicate the suffering from cluster munitions and advocate for an end to this suffering through changes to policy and practice around the world.

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