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March 7, 2022 Background Briefing

Enhanced Blast Weapons in Ukraine

Backgrounder

Russian TOS-1A multi-barrel rocket launchers photographed on exercises in 2021.  These weapons can rapidly launch a volley of 24 MO.1.01.04-series rockets with thermobaric warheads up to 6-8 kilometers away.
March 7, 2022 Dispatches

Under Shelling in Kharkiv

People with Disabilities Need to Evacuate Safely

A view of the central square following shelling of the City Hall building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. © March 1, 2022
March 4, 2022 Dispatches

A Sick Baby Clings to Life in a Ukraine Basement

Allow Safe Evacuation of Civilians at Risk

Women and their children sit in the basement of a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward and used as a bomb shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine
March 4, 2022 News Release

Ukraine: Cluster Munitions Launched Into Kharkiv Neighborhoods

Russian Forces’ Indiscriminate Attacks May Amount to War Crimes

Cluster munitions attacks in Kharkiv on February 28, 2022.
February 25, 2022 News Release

Ukraine: Russian Cluster Munition Hits Hospital

4 Civilians Killed, 10 Wounded

Damage from a cluster munition attack outside the Central City Hospital in Vuhledar.
February 23, 2022 Q & A

Russia, Ukraine & International Law: On Occupation, Armed Conflict and Human Rights

Questions and Answers

Tetyana Tomenko in front of her house, which was damaged during shelling in Novognativka, eastern Ukraine, February 20, 2022.
February 18, 2022 News Release

Ukraine: Shelling Residential Areas Puts Civilians at Risk

Attacks Intensify Against Government-Controlled Areas in East

Damage from the shelling of a kindergarten in the settlement of Stanytsia Luhanska, Ukraine, February 17, 2022.
February 8, 2022 Commentary

Humanitarian Disarmament in 2022

Negotiations, Implementation, and a Fresh Start

CCW delegates at the United Nations in Geneva.
February 3, 2022 News Release

Sudan: Ongoing Clampdown on Peaceful Protesters

3 Months After Coup, Concrete Action Needed to End Repression

People continue protests demanding the restoration of civilian rule in Khartoum, Sudan on January 24, 2022.
December 21, 2021 Commentary

Countering Consensus through Humanitarian Disarmament: Incendiary Weapons and Killer Robots

December 19, 2021 News Release

Killer Robots: Military Powers Stymie Ban

But Momentum for New Treaty on Autonomous Weapons is Growing

Illustration of missiles being fired at a person
December 13, 2021 Statement

General Statement to the Convention on Conventional Weapons Sixth Review Conference

Delivered by Gerry Simpson, Associate Director, Crisis and Conflict Division

The Broken Chair, a statue in support of the bans on landmines and cluster munitions, stands outside the United Nations in Geneva.
December 13, 2021 Statement

Joint Civil Society Statement on Protocol III to the Convention on Conventional Weapons Sixth Review Conference

Written by Bonnie Docherty, Senior Researcher. Delivered by Lode Dewaegheneire, Mines Action Canada

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December 9, 2021 News Release

Incendiary Weapons: Heed Calls to Strengthen Law

Healthcare Professionals, Burn Survivor Organizations Seek Stronger Rules

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December 8, 2021 Report

Syria/Russia: 12 Civilians Dead in Idlib Artillery Attacks

Unlawful Syrian-Russian Alliance Attack Strikes Civilians

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