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Syria military using banned cluster bombs against civilians: HRW
March 16, 2013 by Peter Snyder
The Syrian regime is expanding its use of widely banned cluster bombs, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released Saturday. According to the report, the Syrian military has used cluster munitions in 119 locations across Syria, dropping at least 156 bombs over the last six months and.... [more]
US refused to sign anti-personnel landmine treaty [this day at law]
November 24, 2012 by Kimberly Bennett
On November 24, 2009, the US State Department (DOS) stated that the US would not sign a treaty banning the use of anti-personnel landmines, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction. Though the US did not.... [more]
Syria military using banned cluster bombs: HRW
October 14, 2012 by Matthew Pomy
The Syrian military is using cluster munitions against opposition forces, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Sunday. A Youtube video, posted by Syrian opposition forces, showed remnants of cluster munitions allegedly near several towns. Markings on the remnants suggest they were dropped from.... [more]
Syria forces using cluster munitions: HRW
July 12, 2012 by Sung Un Kim
Soviet-produced unexploded submunitions and a bomb canister were discovered in Jabel Shahshabu, a mountainous area near Hama in Syria and posted to YouTube, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. HRW confirmed the site of discovery by an activist who knows the YouTube poster. Syria is not known to.... [more]
ICC prosecutor requested warrants for Libya leaders [this day at law]
May 4, 2012 by Cody Harding
On May 4, 2011, International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo announced that an investigation had uncovered enough evidence to allow him to pursue warrants for Libyan leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity. In March 2011, the ICC launched an investigation.... [more]
Austria became second country to ban cluster munitions [this day at law]
December 6, 2011 by Cynthia Miley
On December 6, 2007, the Austrian Parliament passed legislation that established a complete ban on cluster munitions. Austria was the second country to institute such a ban after Belgium, which banned cluster munitions in February 2006. In May 2008, more than 100 countries adopted a draft treaty.... [more]
Human Rights and the War on Terror in Ethiopia [op-ed]
August 2, 2011 by Dwyer Arce
JURIST Guest Columnist and former JURIST Executive Director Abigail Salisbury says that the Ethiopian government has used the War on Terror to maintain its power, labeling opposition groups, journalists and others as terrorists and detaining them under legislation that is purportedly aimed at.... [more]
Cluster munitions treaty took effect [this day at law]
August 1, 2011 by Clay Flaherty
On August 1, 2010, the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) officially went into effect as binding international law. The CCM bans the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of cluster bombs or similar weapons that break apart into large numbers of smaller, self-contained explosives. The CCM.... [more]
Cluster munitions treaty ban agreed upon at Ireland conference [this day at law]
May 28, 2011 by Dwyer Arce
On May 28, 2008, diplomats reached an agreement on a draft treaty banning the use, manufacture, and stockpiling of cluster munitions following ten days of negotiation at the Dublin Diplomatic Conference on Cluster Munitions. The Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) forbids signatories from acting.... [more]
UN rights chief says Libya may be committing war crimes
April 22, 2011 by Carrie Schimizzi
UN High Commissioner of Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday said the use of violent force by the government of Libya in densely populated cities could amount to international war crimes. The use of cluster bombs and heavy artillery by armed forces under leader Muammar Gaddafi in the city of.... [more]
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