Examples of using Cluster munitions in English and their translations into Hebrew
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The Convention on Cluster Munitions.
The 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions Petitions by Avaaz.
The Israel Policesays that it examined 118 rocket strikes with cluster munitions.
Only a tiny fraction of the cluster munitions in the US arsenal meet the 1-percent standard.
Cluster munitions can be fired by artillery and rocket systems or dropped by aircraft.
Only a very tiny fraction of the cluster munitions in the U.S. arsenal meet the one percent standard.
Cluster munitions are unacceptably inaccurate and unreliable weapons when used around civilians," said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch.
Under the law, the US can only export cluster munitions that leave behind less than 1 percent of their submunitions as duds.
In a forthcoming report,Human Rights Watch will address Israel's unlawful use of cluster munitions in Lebanon during the 2006 conflict.
Israel has been a major recipient of US cluster munitions and used the weapons extensively in its 2006 armed conflict in Lebanon(WEB).
There are already international conventions banning biological weapons, chemical weapons,anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions, but no comparable treaty- as yet- for nuclear weapons.
Moreover, because of their high failure rate, cluster munitions leave large numbers of hazardous, explosive duds to terrorize civilians even after the attack is over.
International conventions have succeeded in bringing about bans of biological weapons, chemical weapons,land mines and cluster munitions, but no treaty has yet been agreed upon to ban nuclear weapons.
Cluster munitions are increasingly the focus of discussion at the meetings of the Convention on Conventional Weapons, with ever more states calling for a new international instrument dealing with cluster munitions. .
Beirut, July 24, 2006-Israel has used artillery-fired cluster munitions in populated areas of Lebanon, Human Rights Watch said today.
According to eyewitnesses and survivors of the attack interviewed by Human Rights Watch,Israel fired several artillery-fired cluster munitions at Blida around 3 p.m. on July 19.
The 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions prohibits the use, production, stockpiling, and transfer of cluster munitions, and provides strict deadlines for clearance of affected areas and destruction of stockpiled cluster munitions.
Significant progress was made in 2008, when over 100 countries signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions which prohibited the production,distribution and stockpiling of cluster munitions.
Wars and civil wars in Afghanistan, Syria, Ukraine, Libya and Iraq have seen focus shift from traditional mine clearance to the disposal of booby traps andother explosive remnants of war(cluster munitions, unexploded bombs).
The directive described cluster munitions as“legitimate weapons with clear military utility” and said that the US will continue to use cluster munitions and, after 2018, will use only munitions with a tested failure rate of less than 1 percent.
The meeting was held in Oslo on 22 and 23 February, and was a first step in aprocess that could lead to an international ban on cluster munitions that causes unacceptable human suffering.
The 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions comprehensively prohibits the use, production, and transfer of cluster munitions, provides strict deadlines for clearing affected areas and destroying stockpiled cluster munitions, and requires assistance to victims of the weapons.
United Nations deminers, beginning emergency survey and clearance work in the south of Lebanon,have identified 10 locations where Israel used artillery-delivered cluster munitions during the recent hostilities, Human Rights Watch reported.
The ongoing attacks, along with an abundance of abandoned landmines and cluster munitions, have created a disproportionately high number of persons with physical and mental disabilities, many of whom have not received support for rehabilitation and re-integration into the community.
Two- thirds of UN member states have called for a nuclear- weapons convention similar to existing treaties banning other categories of particularly inhumane and indiscriminate weapons, from biologicaland chemical arms to anti- personnel land mines and cluster munitions.
In addition there should be full and universal enforcement of International disarmament agreements, such as the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, and support for new efforts aimed at the eradicationof the impact of victim-activated and indiscriminate weapons, such as cluster munitions.