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#indiscriminate weapons

Weapons that cannot be directed at a specific military objective or whose effects cannot be limited as required by IHL. Includes cluster munitions, antipersonnel mines, and certain incendiary and explosive weapons used in populated areas.

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Updated March 26, 2026 Foreign Policy & War
Serious Rights Violation Ongoing

Pentagon Signs $210M+ Deal to Purchase Cluster Munitions From Israel

The US contracted with an Israeli state-owned arms manufacturer for banned cluster munitions at industrial scale, reversing decades of declining reliance on these weapons and funding an Israeli weapons program while cluster munitions continue to kill and maim civilians worldwide.

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cluster munitionsIsraelTomerarms procurementConvention on Cluster Munitions
Updated March 26, 2026 Foreign Policy & War
Serious Rights Violation Ongoing

Hegseth Reverses US Landmine Ban, Rescinds $5B+ Humanitarian Demining Program

The Trump administration reversed decades of bipartisan progress toward eliminating antipersonnel landmines by authorizing their global use and simultaneously dismantling the US humanitarian demining program that had been the world's largest mine-clearing effort.

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landminesantipersonnel minesOttawa TreatyMine Ban Treatyhumanitarian demining