• US: Wrong Time for Bahrain Arms Deal
    Press release
    Feb 8, 2012
    The Obama administration’s decision to move forward on a $1 million arms sale to Bahrain sends the wrong signal to a country that is engaged in serious human rights abuses.
  • Finland Joins Landmine Ban Treaty
    Press release
    Jan 11, 2012

    Finland’s action to join the international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines should spur the United States and others to get on board without delay. 

  • Landmine Treaty: Progress in Phnom Penh
    Press release
    Dec 2, 2011
    The international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines is making strong progress toward its objective of a mine-free world, as a major meeting on landmines wrapped up in Phnom Penh. However, the United States’ review of its policy has regrettably entered its third year without conclusion.
  • Statement on Mine Ban Treaty Compliance Issues
    Oral statement
    Dec 2, 2011

    Steve Goose, arms division director at Human Rights Watch and head of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) delegation, delivered a statement at the Mine Ban Treaty Eleventh Meeting of States Parties in Phnom Penh.   

  • Statement on Mine Ban Treaty Stockpile Destruction
    Oral statement
    Dec 1, 2011
    Mark Hiznay, senior researcher in the arms division of Human Rights Watch, delivered a statement on stockpile destruction obligations under the Mine Ban Treaty at the Eleventh Meeting of States Parties in Phnom Penh.
  • Statement on the Mine Ban Treaty during the Eleventh Meeting of States Parties
    Oral statement
    Nov 30, 2011

    Steve Goose, arms division director at Human Rights Watch and head of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) delegation, delivered a statement at the Mine Ban Treaty Eleventh Meeting of States Parties in Phnom Penh.  

  • Cluster Bombs: Nations Reject Weakening of Global Ban
    Press release
    Nov 25, 2011

    An attempt by the United States and others to weaken the comprehensive ban on cluster munitions has failed. The effort by the US and other users and stockpilers of cluster munitions to create a new protocol to the 1980 Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) was rejected on November 25, 2011, in Geneva after more than 50 states said there was no consensus for adopting it.  

  • Statement on the Draft CCW Protocol on Cluster Munitions
    Oral statement
    Nov 24, 2011

    Steve Goose, arms division director at Human Rights Watch and chair of the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC), delivered a statement on the Draft CCW Protocol on Cluster Munitions.

  • Statement on the Chair's Second Revised Draft CCW Protocol on Cluster Munitions
    Oral statement
    Nov 23, 2011
    Steve Goose, arms division director at Human Rights Watch and chair of the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC), delivered a statement on the Chair's Second Revised Draft CCW Protocol on Cluster Munitions.
  • Landmine Treaty: More Members, but Use Persists
    Press release
    Nov 22, 2011

    The new use of landmines in a handful of countries threatens to undermine progress toward banning the weapons. The membership in the international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines has expanded, however, to 158 countries.