Threats to the Global Norms on Landmines and Cluster Munitions
In this recent article for The Examiner (Independence, MO), I warn against becoming complacent in the struggle to rid the world of landmines and cluster munitions. I point to recent reported violations of the norms against landmine and cluster munition use in Libya, Sudan the Thai/Cambodian border. I call on the US to reinvigorate these norms by joining the landmine and cluster munition treaties.
[...] in the Convention on Conventional Weapons. This would represent a serious set back for the norm against cluster munitions and other indiscriminate weapons and represents a betrayal of the values President Obama has [...]
Stop the US from Undermining the Cluster Munitions Ban « Political Minefields said this on 10 November 2011 at 9:21 pm |