'That children and innocent civilians can be indiscriminately killed by these dangerous weapons makes it urgent the need for all countries to ban them permanently.'
Russian forces have used cluster munitions in populated areas of Ukraine at least two dozen times since they started the invasion of that country on February 24, 2022, said UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet. Some cluster munitions may lie dormant for decades, thus posing danger for generations of civilians. Studies of cluster munitions use have found that between one-quarter and two-thirds of the victims are children.
In addition, the cluster munition attacks have also been condemned by the President of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the NATO Secretary-General, the UN Human Rights Commissioner and the Cluster Munition Coalition . Nations that ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions adopted in Dublin, Ireland, in May 2008, are prohibited from using them. This Convention entered into force and became binding international law on 1 August 2010. The Convention on Cluster Munitions"bans the stockpiling, use and transfer of virtually all existing cluster bombs, and provides for the clearing up of unexploded munitions.
Since the creation of the United Nations in 1945, at least 31 nations have produced cluster munitions, among them China, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, North Korea, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. As of September 2018, at least 57 countries have stockpiles of cluster munitions.
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