Landmine Monitor publications released from 1999–2008 contain information on cluster munitions. In 2009, Landmine Monitor added distinct reporting on cluster munitions.
Banning Cluster Munitions: Government Policy and Practice was released on 29 May 2009. The report documents the creation of an international treaty banning cluster munitions. It looks at governments’ engagement in the Oslo Process, a diplomatic initiative started by Norway in February 2007 to create a legally-binding instrument outlawing cluster munitions and establishing a framework for clearing contaminated areas and meeting the needs of cluster munition victims. The report also considers government practice with respect to the use, production, stockpiling, and transfer of cluster munitions.
Banning Cluster Munitions, a 288-page report, contains entries on 150 countries, including signatories to the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, countries that stockpile the weapon, and affected states. This report was prepared by Human Rights Watch and Landmine Action on behalf of Landmine Monitor. Representatives from Human Rights Watch and Landmine Action co-chair the Cluster Munition Coalition, the civil society campaign that helped to secure international support for the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Starting in 2010, Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor will produce an independent publication on Cluster Munitions. The Cluster Munition Monitor publication will include summary chapters providing a global overview of developments in cluster munition ban policy, contamination, clearance, casualties and victim assistance, and support for cluster munition action. The publication will also include country chapters which provide a brief summary of the cluster munition problem (where relevant) and annual updates on cluster munition ban policy.
Hard copies of Banning Cluster Munitions: Government Policy and Practice can be ordered online and the complete report is now available online.
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