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Cluster Munitions Convention: The People's Treaty - sign under now!

Copenhagen, 06/06/2008: On May 30 in Dublin, cluster bomb survivors and campaigners welcomed the formal adoption of the Cluster Munitions Convention by over 100 countries. This historic treaty bans the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of all existing and future cluster bombs. To keep pressure on governments and to ensure that the treaty enters into force, campaigners have launched the People’s Treaty. Sign up now.

Cluster bomb campaigners in Dublin, 30 May, after

over 100 countries adopted the groundbreaking treaty to ban cluster bombs.
Photo credit: www.stopclustermunitions.org

After a great success in Dublin, where 111 states (including Denmark) adopted a text of a new Cluster Munition Convention, we now need to ensure that the Convention enters into force as soon as possible – for which 30 ratifications are needed after the signing ceremony in Oslo 2-3 December.

Cluster munitions
Cluster munitions endanger civilians because they spread submunitions over a broad area, virtually guaranteeing civilian casualties when fired into populated areas. Cluster munitions leave a large number of unexploded submunitions, which become de facto landmines, killing or maiming people long after the conflict. Sign the Peoples' Treaty now!

Cluster munitions

Cluster munitions endanger civilians because they spread submunitions over a broad area, virtually guaranteeing civilian casualties when fired into populated areas.

Cluster munitions leave a large number of unexploded submunitions, which become de facto landmines, killing or maiming people long after the conflict.

Sign the Peoples' Treaty now!

The Cluster Munition Coalition (of which DanChurchAid is a Steering Committee member) launched The People’s Treaty on 30 May – the final day of the Dublin Diplomatic Conference on Cluster Munitions.

The People’s Treaty is a petition that people across the world will be asked to sign to make sure that as many states as possible sign the new Cluster Munitions Convention in Oslo from 2-3 December 2008. It is only six months between Dublin and Oslo to ensure that countries – also Denmark – will be ready to sign and ratify the treaty so that it can become binding international law.

DanChurchAid are encouraging you to sign the Peoples’ Treaty and to encourage others to sign it too. There are two ways to sign the treaty: as an individual citizen or as a community leader representing a group, constituency, congregation or organization. Anyone can sign the People’s Treaty and everyone should. All signatures count!