by Sean Reilly | Jul 8, 2008
The Pentagon has announced that the US military will continue to use and export even the most unreliable cluster bombs over the next decade. The policy decision comes shortly after 111 countries, including major NATO allies, agreed to a global treaty banning cluster...
by Sean Reilly | May 29, 2008
“Churches around the world are much encouraged” by the multilateral agreement on cluster munitions reached Wednesday in Dublin, said World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev Dr Samuel Kobia today. But they now look with expectation to...
by Sean Reilly | May 29, 2008
The Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Methodist Church and the United Reformed Church have welcomed the commitment by the UK Government to withdraw the remaining two cluster munitions from its arsenal. The news came as talks took place in Dublin, in which...
by Sean Reilly | May 28, 2008
The government is preparing to scrap Britain’s entire arsenal of cluster bombs that have killed and maimed hundreds of innocent civilians, reports the Guardian newspaper. Officials are paving the way for the radical step at talks in Dublin on an international...
by Sean Reilly | May 23, 2008
Hopes for a global agreement to outlaw cluster bombs have been given a boost after British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for a total ban on the use of the weapons by the British military. Church groups have been prominent amongst those calling for an...
