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POLITICS: U.S. Agrees to Talks on Cluster Bombs
By Abra Pollock
WASHINGTON - As anti-cluster bomb advocates rallied in 40 cities around the world on Monday as part of a Global Day of Action, the United States delegation to a U.N. conference in Geneva this week announced a reversal of its longstanding opposition to negotiations on cluster munitions.
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RIGHTS: 'U.S. Resisting Ban on Cluster Bombs'
By David Cronin
BRUSSELS - The U.S. is leading efforts to resist a complete ban on cluster bombs, human rights activists have complained.
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CHILE: Breath of Fresh Air for Community Radio Stations?
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - After a seven year wait, community radio stations in Chile are celebrating a draft law that would regulate and promote their activities, which the government of President Michelle Bachelet has sent to Congress. But they remain aware of the hurdles that still lie ahead.
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LEBANON: What A 'Safe' Cluster Bomb Did
By Rebecca Murray
TYRE, Lebanon - The explosion ripped through the tiny garden in rural south Lebanon, hurling Naemah Ghazi to the ground. The shrapnel from the bomb sliced through her legs, and she rapidly lost consciousness. "There was a lot of blood," her mother Khadija recalls. "All her body was bleeding."
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LEBANON: Women in the Frontline for Clearing Cluster Bombs
By Rebecca Murray
TYRE, Lebanon - "Mine action is a male dominated sector, but it doesn't have to be," declares Christina Bennike, the dynamic head of Danish charity Dan Church Aid (DCA) in south Lebanon. "I really felt it would be important to address this from the beginning, then it would be natural instead of something different or unique."
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DISARMAMENT-LATIN AMERICA: Cluster Bomb-Free Region?
By Ángel Páez
LIMA - Peru's proposal to make Latin America the world's first cluster munitions-free region received broad support from the countries that took part in this week's intergovernmental conference on a future global treaty against the weapons in Lima, said local authorities.
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DISARMAMENT: Taking Aim at Those Who Finance Cluster Bombs
By Ángel Páez
LIMA - A future international treaty to ban cluster munitions should prohibit financial institutions from investing in companies that manufacture the weapons, Thomas Nash, coordinator of the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC), told IPS in the Peruvian capital.
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LEBANON: One Unexploded Bomb Per Person
By Dahr Jamail
SRIFA, Southern Lebanon - Close to a million unexploded bombs are estimated to litter southern Lebanon, according to UN forces engaged in the hazardous task of removing them.
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"I lost my right eye and the bomblet tore a huge chunk of flesh from my hand and back. I can still recall that fateful day of Feb. 23, 1992, when in a fraction of a second our entire lives were changed forever... I want governments to stop using, producing or stockpiling cluster bombs, which have been killing and maiming tens of thousands of civilians and harming children like me."

Umarvek Pulodov was six years old when a cluster bomb pierced the roof of his house in a Tajikistan village. The bomb killed his brother and several relatives in addition to severely injuring him and three other siblings.