Anyone who bombs or contaminates a city with poison or radiation or cluster bombs should be charged with a war crime in the International Court of Justice.
Publishing new accounts from the victims of unexploded cluster bombs, the organization also called on Israel to cooperate in a full and impartial investigation into their use of such munitions during the recent conflict.
In May 2008, 107 nations adopted the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which comprehensively bans the use, production, trade and stockpiling of the weapon.
Other recent findings confirm that Israel may have dropped as many as 60% of the cluster bombs they used during July-August 2006 in the 72 hours immediately before the ceasefire.
Napalm, cluster bombs and other types of explosives all inflict considerable damage to the environment and still form a hazard from wars that ended decades ago.
We could never have done the convention against anti-personnel landmines and the convention that is banning cluster munitions unless we had done diplomacy differently, by engaging with civil society.
Fuel-air explosives, cluster bombs, multiple rocket launcher systems or nuclear weapons, including B61-11s(tactical nuclear earth-penetrating weapons designed to destroy deep underground targets.).
According to research on the worldwide investments in cluster munitions producers by Pax, a Dutch-based NGO, financial institutions invested billions of US dollars into companies that make cluster munitions.
The use of cluster bombs* attacks on the civilian population including journalists* acts of aggression against health services and other Iraqi infrastructure* looting protected by or under orders from the U.S. army.
The US reminded Israel that weaponry provided by the US was to be used for defensive purposes only, and suspended shipments of cluster munitions to Israel.
But according to a study by non-profit organzation Facing Finance, the bank continued to approve loans to producers of cluster munitions after that promise was made.
From the details provided by the survivors, Amnesty International believes that Syrian government forces have intentionally dropped cluster bombs and other unguided bombs along the irrigation channels of the Euphrates.
Finally, on Dec. 19, following a long campaign by London and different NGOs, the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen announced an end to its use of the British-made cluster bombs.
A majority of the world's nations have comprehensively banned the use of cluster munitions through the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which came into force on August 1, 2010.
A Convention on Cluster Munitions(CCM) was signed in Oslo in 2008- underlining an important role played by Norway in preparing the ground for this international treaty.
They describe the liberation they are bringing from"the world's worst tyranny", as if anything, including death by cluster bomb or dysentery, is better than"life under Saddam".
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