UNICEF welcomes Convention on Cluster Munitions

This week, representatives from more than 100 governments put their pens to paper to help save children's lives by signing an international Convention on Cluster Munitions, committing to effectively rid themselves of these obsolete and indiscriminate weapons. Unfortunately, the U.S. Government was not among them.

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LEBANON: A girl stands near unexploded cluster bombs in the southern village of Aita Shaab, two days after a cease-fire went into effect.

For years, the world has known about the devastating effects of cluster munitions on civilians"and particularly children. The little bomblets