Costa Rica, como Presidencia de la Quinta Reunión de los Estados Parte de la Convención para la Prohibición de Municiones en Racimo, expresa su firme condena al uso de municiones de racimo en la provincia de Saada en Yemen, según denunció el pasado 3 de mayo la organización defensora de los derechos humanos Human Rights Watch, la cual indicó que la coalición encabezada por Arabia Saudita ha utilizado municiones de racimo en la ofensiva militar contra los rebeldes hutíes. Continue reading →

On 12 March 2015, Paraguay became the 91th State Party to the CCM. The instrument of ratification deposited at the UNSG in New York is available here.

On 16 March 2015, Canada became the 90th State Party to the CCM. The instrument of ratification deposited at the UNSG in New York is available here

The Ambassador of Costa Rica to the UN agencies in Geneva, Elayne Whyte, along with the football players of the team Evian Thonon Gaillard FC, Yeltsin Tejeda and David Ramirez, join their voices to contribute to education and outreach on the consequences of cluster munitions. These have killed more than 100,000 people in 23 countries, 98 percent of the deaths have been civilians. Continue reading →

On 9 February, the Government of Japan completed the destruction of their stockpiles of cluster munitions in accordance with its obligations as a State party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions. Continue reading →

On 09 February, the Government of Japan completed the destruction of its stockpile of cluster munitions. The Press release from the MFA of Japan is available HERE.

Last January 2, 2015, Palestine became the eighty-ninth State Party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions by depositing its instrument of accession at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Continue reading →

On 02^nd January 2015, the State of Palestine became the 89th State Party to the CCM. The instrument of accession deposited at the UNSG in New York is available here.

In celebrating the sixth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica and Chairman of the Meeting of States Parties, Mr. Manuel González Sanz, issued a call to reach a total of 100 States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions before the First Review Conference, to be held in Croatia in September 2015. Continue reading →

On 15 November 2014, the OHCHR published the report “Report on the human rights situations in Ukraine” in which it has demanded a thorough investigation into claims of the use of cluster munitions during the conflict in Ukraine’s eastern regions. Continue reading →