OSLO, Norway, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- An international treaty including about 100 nations banning the use of cluster munitions is set to be signed Wednesday in Norway.
OSLO, Norway, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The international treaty banning the use of cluster bombs to be signed in Oslo, Norway, will save thousands of lives, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- An attempt by several members of the international community to legitimize cluster munitions failed Friday in Switzerland, a Human Rights Watch official said.
MOSCOW, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- A human rights group and journalists said they found two unexploded cluster bombs in Georgia, contradicting Moscow's claim it didn't use the munitions.
WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. decision to stop using most cluster bombs in 10 years is "too little, too late," Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.
DUBLIN, Ireland, May 22 (UPI) -- Human Rights Watch accused the U.S. government Thursday of trying to negotiate "dangerous loopholes" in a new treaty on cluster bombs.
NEW YORK, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Israel's use of cluster bombs during the 2006 war with Lebanon highlights the need to ban the weapons, Human Rights Watch said Sunday.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Members of the Convention on Conventional Weapons ended a week of discussion on cluster bombs Tuesday without any plan to ban them.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- A U.S. human rights group Monday called on the Bush administration cut off all U.S. cluster munitions sales to Israel.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- The advocacy group Human Rights Watch claims Hezbollah acquired a cluster weapon and used it during the 34-day war with Israel this year.
NEW YORK, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Human Rights Watch says it has confirmation that Hezbollah fired cluster munitions into civilian areas in Israel during the Lebanon conflict.
MOSCOW, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Russian human rights activists say government charges that could close Russia's largest human rights association are groundless. Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty say the crackdown on the Moscow-based Research Center for Human Rights began when Justice
KUWAIT CITY, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Kuwait's ministry of social affairs and labor announced Tuesday that it licensed the country's first human rights' watchdog.
WASHINGTON, April 2 (UPI) -- A human rights group Wednesday accused the United States and Iraq of using cluster munitions and antipersonnel landmines, creating dangers for civilians. Human Rights Watch said U.S. forces were using cluster munitions with a very high failure rate while
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Uzbekistan has improved its treatment of political dissidents, a human rights group said Friday. The independent Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan attributed the comments to its member Yuldash Rasulev, a practicing Muslim, who was released from prison la
