• Sudan: Cluster Bomb Found in Conflict Zone
    Press release
    May 24, 2012

    The Sudanese government should investigate the discovery of a cluster bomb in Southern Kordofan, a conflict zone hit by government bombing

  • Statement on Compliance with the Convention on Cluster Munitions
    Oral statement
    Apr 19, 2012

    Steve Goose, arms division director at Human Rights Watch and chair of the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC), delivered a statement on compliance with the Convention on Cluster Munitions.  compliance comp

  • Statement on Retention and the Convention on Cluster Munitions
    Oral statement
    Apr 18, 2012

    Steve Goose, arms division director at Human Rights Watch and chair of the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC), delivered a statement on cluster munitions retained for training under the Convention on Cluster Munitions. compliance comp

  • Statement on Stockpile Destruction and the Convention on Cluster Munitions
    Oral statement
    Apr 18, 2012
    Mark Hiznay, senior researcher in the Arms division, delivered a statement on Convention on Cluster Munitions stockpile destruction issues at the convention's Intersessional Meetings.
  • 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.
  • A Threat to International Law
    Commentary
    Nov 21, 2011

    The proposed CCW protocol poses a threat to the ban on cluster munitions that has been much discussed and should continue to be. But the problem does not end there. The proposed protocol would also have serious implications for international law.   

  • Statement on Chair's First Revised Draft CCW Protocol on Cluster Munitions
    Oral statement
    Nov 21, 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 First Revised Draft CCW Protocol on Cluster Munitions.

  • Where is the Evidence?
    Commentary
    Nov 18, 2011

    The belief that the draft Protocol VI would have an immediate and significant humanitarian impact requires a leap of faith. That is because little real evidence has been presented. There have been a lot of assertions, but very few facts.