On Tuesday, 3 August, New Zealand’s Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control, Hon. Georgina Te Heuheu hosted a reception at parliament to celebrate entry info force of the Convention on Cluster Munitions. Read more

At 12.00pm local time (00.00 GMT) on August 1st, the Aotearoa New Zealand Cluster Munition Coalition (ANZCMC) kicked off the first* in a series of dozens of events to held around the world to celebrate entry into force of the Convention on Cluster Munitions.  Wellington musician Sam Manzanza and his colleagues including Tom Scrase (The Thomas Oliver Band), and Navjeevan Singh led off a 40-minute drumming session that kids and adults joined in. The drumming session took place at Capital E in Civic Square, Wellington. Read more

Come and celebrate the treaty banning cluster bombs!

Wellington Event: Drumming Session + Film Screening

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New Zealand government and civil society representatives were in Chile last week for a major international meeting of governments that have banned cluster bombs. Read more

As part of the 100-day countdown to entry into force of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, campaigners in New Zealand have been contacting governments to urge them to support the ban.  This week, campaign representatives in Wellington met with diplomatic representatives from Argentina and Vietnam.   Thailand was not available and Brazil did not respond to the coalition’s request for a meeting. Read more

Samoa’s ratification of the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions should spur other Pacific nations to come on board the ban. On 28 April 2010, Samoa deposited its instrument of ratification to the Convention on Cluster Munitions with the United Nations in New York. Read more