Download or read book Cluster Bombs and Other Explosive Remnants of War written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout 2002 there was a series of discussions in Geneva in the context of the 1980 Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) on addressing weapons and weapons systems that lead to ERW. [...] Discussion A number of questions were raised about the extent of cluster bomb use, their legality, and the role of EU institutions in providing a solution. [...] Regarding the use of cluster bomb weapons it was stated that a large stock of these weapons remain in existence as they were developed in the 1960s, and therefore the proliferation of these and other problematic weapon systems was a concern. [...] A contrast was made between cluster bombs and incendiary, footprint and large blast weapons in general, and it was stated that a discussion would take place in the International Criminal Court regarding the use of such weapons in the future. [...] Regarding the role of institutions it was recommended that the European Parliament should be debating the wider problem of explosive remnants of war and focusing on the EU's political role in negotiations.

Download or read book Explosive Remnants of War written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Convention on Cluster Munitions written by Gro Nystuen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a commentary on the legislation around the use of cluster munitions in warfare.--

Download or read book Putting the Impact of Cluster Munitions in Context with the Effects of All Explosive Remnants of War written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Explosive Remnants of War written by Richard Moyes and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cluster Munitions in Albania and Lao PDR written by Rosy Cave and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bomb Children written by Leah Zani and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half a century after the CIA's Secret War in Laos—the largest bombing campaign in history—explosive remnants of war continue to be part of people's everyday lives. In Bomb Children Leah Zani offers a perceptive analysis of the long-term, often subtle, and unintended effects of massive air warfare. Zani traces the sociocultural impact of cluster submunitions—known in Laos as “bomb children”—through stories of explosives clearance technicians and others living and working in these old air strike zones. Zani presents her ethnography alongside poetry written in the field, crafting a startlingly beautiful analysis of state terror, authoritarian revival, rapid development, and ecological contamination. In so doing, she proposes that postwar zones are their own cultural and area studies, offering new ways to understand the parallel relationship between ongoing war violence and postwar revival.

Download or read book Cluster Bombs and Landmines in Kosovo written by Stuart Maslen and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce rapport présente une vue d'ensemble, sur une période d'une année (juin 1999 - mai 2000), du lourd tribut humain et social payé par la population civile du Kosovo à la présence de mines, sous-munitions de bombes à dispersion et autres engins non explosés. (http://www.icrc.org).

Download or read book Eternal Harvest written by Karen Coates and published by ThingsAsian Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karen Coates and Jerry Redfern spent more than seven years traveling in Laos, talking to farmers, scrap-metal hunters, people who make and use tools from UXO, people who hunt for death beneath the earth and render it harmless. With their words and photographs, they reveal the beauty of Laos, the strength of Laotians, and the commitment of bomb-disposal teams. People take precedence in this account, which is deeply personal without ever becoming a polemic.

Download or read book In Search of Safe Ground written by Gemima Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In search of Safe Ground examines the legacy left by US bombing during the Vietnam War from 1965 to 1973. This book is a snapshot of the explosive remnants of war (ERW) problem in Eastern Cambodia, where bombs litter the landscape, where children find cluster bombs in their school yard and where farming is coupled with fear. Driven by desperation and lack of choice, villagers till the soil of contaiminated areas to sow their crops. Sometimes this simple act brings devastating consequences. This is the reality in Eastern Cambodia today, where peopleare still, more than 40 years later, In Search of Safe Ground."--Back cover.

Download or read book A Guide to Cluster Munitions written by Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Landmine Monitor Report 1999 written by International Campaign to Ban Land Mines and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint Kitts and Nevis

Download or read book Banning Cluster Munitions Government Policy and Practice written by and published by Monitor. This book was released on 2009 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Worldwide Emerging Environmental Issues Affecting the U S Military November 2006 Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons came into force on 12 November 2006, almost three years after it was adopted. The Protocol stipulates that Parties should take "remedial measures to mark and clear, remove or destroy unexploded ordnance or abandoned explosive ordnance" as early as possible after hostilities have ended, whether they control the territory or not, by cooperating directly or indirectly with all parties involved through quick and accurate information exchange. The Protocol is not retroactive, covering only wars occurring after its entry into force. As of the end of November, there were 27 States Parties to the Protocol. The Portfolio of Mine Action Projects 2007 found that 26 out of 29 war-ravaged countries or territories surveyed are beleaguered with the lurking remnants of cluster bombs and other explosives. In 2007, the focus of the Projects will be on unexploded ordnance, aiming to deal with the aftermath of conflicts that took place before Protocol V entered into force.

Download or read book Off Target written by Human Rights Watch (Organization) and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed or injured during the three weeks of fighting from the first air strikes on March 20 to April 9, 2003, when Baghdad fell to U.S.-led coalition forces. Human rights investigated the conduct of the war during a five-week mission in Iraq. This report documents Iraqi violations of international humanitarian law, including use of human shields, abuse of the red cross and red crescent emblems, use of antipersonnel landmines, location of military objects in protected places, and failure to take adequate precautions to protect civilians from the dangers resulting from military operations.

Download or read book Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict written by William H. Boothby and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the law of armed conflict governing the use of weapons into a single volume, the fully updated Second Edition of Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict interprets these rules and discusses the factors influencing future developments in weapons law. After relating the historical evolution of weapons law, the book discusses the important customary principles that are the foundation of the subject, and provides a condensed account of the law that exists on the use of weapons. The treaties and customary rules applying to particular categories of weapon are thereafter listed and explained article by article and rule by rule in a series of chapters. Having stated the law as it is, the book then explores the way in which this dynamic field of international law develops in the light of various influences. The legal review of weapons is discussed, both from the perspective of how such reviews should be undertaken and how such a system should be established. Having stated the law as it is, the book then investigates the way in which this dynamic field of international law develops in the light of various influences. In the final chapter, the prospects for future rule change are considered. This Second Edition includes a discussion of new treaty law on expanding bullets, the arms trade, and norms in relation to biological and chemical weapons. It also analyses the International Manuals on air and missile warfare law and on cyber warfare law, the challenges posed by 'lethal autonomous weapon systems', and developments in the field of information and telecommunications otherwise known as cyber activities.

Download or read book The History of Landmines written by Mike Croll and published by Leo Cooper Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While public interest in landmines is recent, their use and that of their non-explosive predecessors has a history which spans 2,500 years. Mike Croll explains the development, employment and reactions to these weapons from the concealed spikes of antiquity to the electronically-fused systems of today." "The History of Landmines takes the reader from ancient Rome to the colonial wars and from the American Civil War to the Gulf War explaining why increasing numbers of these devices have been used and how they have become more sophisticated. The genesis of the present humanitarian crisis is fully described along with the problems of clearing landmines today."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved