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		<title>Banning cluster bombs: 2011 review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Aotearoa New Zealand Cluster Munition Coalition is grateful to everyone who supported our work against cluster bombs in 2011. After 2010, we didn&#8217;t think this year could be any busier, but it was action-packed&#8230; Internationally, the Convention on Cluster Munitions continued to pick up new countries, including the Dominican Republic&#8217;s ratification yesterday. Lebanon did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopclusterbombs.org.nz/2011/12/23/2011-review/</link>
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		<title>New Zealand scraps its disarmament minister</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Aotearoa New Zealand Cluster Munition Coalition (ANZCMC) looks forward to working with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. Murray McCully, on the disarmament and arms control portfolio in support of the Convention on Cluster Munitions. It is however deeply disappointed at the loss of the ministerial position. In a 19 December 2011 press release,  the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopclusterbombs.org.nz/2011/12/13/new-zealand-scraps-disarmament-minister/</link>
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		<title>Effort to weaken the ban defeated!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An effort by the United States and other major cluster bomb users and producers to create a new international law permitting these weapons was defeated in Geneva late on Friday, 25 November 2011 by a powerful alliance of governments, UN agencies, the ICRC, and civil society. The US, China, Israel, Russia, and others were attempting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopclusterbombs.org.nz/2011/11/11/convention-on-conventional-weapons/</link>
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		<title>Wellington talk by Mary Wareham</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aotearoa New Zealand Cluster Munition Coalition coordinator Mary Wareham is giving a public talk on the status of the campaigns to ban cluster bombs and landmines, including New Zealand’s engagement, on Monday, October 3rd starting at 5:00pm at Victoria University of Wellington (Cotton 304). See the Facebook notice by VicIDS.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopclusterbombs.org.nz/2011/09/28/wellington-talk-by-mary-wareham/</link>
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		<title>Storify on the Second Meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[View &#8220;Second Meeting of States Parties&#8221; on Storify]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopclusterbombs.org.nz/2011/09/24/storify-on-the-second-meeting-of-states-parties/</link>
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		<title>Pacific action on cluster munitions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four Pacific nations participated in the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, in addition to Australia and New Zealand: State Party Fiji, signatory Palau, and two non-signatories: Kiribati and the Solomon Islands. Kiribati&#8217;s attendance at the Second Meeting of States Parties represented its first-ever participation in a meeting related to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopclusterbombs.org.nz/2011/09/22/pacific-action-on-cluster-munitions/</link>
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		<title>Afghanistan ratifies cluster bomb ban</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On 8 September 2011, Afghanistan deposited its instrument of ratification to the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions with the United Nations in New York, becoming the 62nd signatory to ratify. Afghanistan&#8217;s ratification is particularly significant as it has been contaminated by cluster munition remnants and unexploded bomblets used by Soviet forces in the 1980s and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopclusterbombs.org.nz/2011/09/11/afghanistan-ratifies-cluster-bomb-ban/</link>
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		<title>Rein in financial investments in cluster bombs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New Zealand government must take measures to ensure compliance with the 2009 law prohibiting investment in the development and production of cluster bombs, said the Aotearoa New Zealand Cluster Munition Coalition (ANZCMC) today in a letter to the government and press release. Investing in the production of cluster munitions is no longer an ethical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopclusterbombs.org.nz/2011/09/02/rein-in-financial-investments-in-cluster-bombs/</link>
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		<title>Cook Islands legislates, ratifies cluster bomb ban</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Cook Islands&#8217; ratification of the international convention banning cluster munitions and its new implementation law sets a positive example for other Pacific nations that need to take these actions said the Aotearoa New Zealand Cluster Munition Coalition (ANZCMC) in a press release issued today (29 August 2011). Last Tuesday (23 August), the Cook Islands [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopclusterbombs.org.nz/2011/08/29/cook-islands-legislates-ratifies-cluster-bomb-ban/</link>
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		<title>Wellington event report, 11 August</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a report on the &#8220;Join the Team to Ban Cluster Bombs&#8221; event hosted by the Aotearoa New Zealand Cluster Munition Coalition at Connolly Hall in Wellington on Thursday, 11 August 2011. The purpose of the event was three-fold: 1. To celebrate the first anniversary of the 1 August 2010 entry into force of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopclusterbombs.org.nz/2011/08/12/report-on-wellington-event-11-august/</link>
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