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The US Campaign to Ban Landmines (USCBL)
Takes on Cluster Munitions
As a member and
current chair of the USCBL Steering Committee, AAM is pleased to announce
that the USCBL has officially expanded its mandate to include cluster
munitions.
The USCBL’s
revised goals are:
- U.S. accession
to the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty and policies that move towards accession: a
U.S. ban on the use, production, stockpiling, and transfer of
antipersonnel landmines;
- increased
resources for humanitarian demining and mine risk education programs;
- increased
resources for victim rehabilitation, assistance, and psychosocial and
economic inclusion;
- enactment of a
U.S. prohibition on the use of cluster munitions in or near populated
areas;
- enactment of a
U.S. prohibition on the use, production, stockpiling, and transfer of
cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians; and
- U.S. support for
an international instrument prohibiting cluster munitions that cause
unacceptable harm to civilians.
These revised
goals will help USCBL and its partners push for support of the Cluster
Munitions Civilian Protection Act of 2007 and other changes in U.S. policy
toward cluster munitions and landmine issues.
Find out more about the
USCBL. |