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NCR Podcast - Weapons that never stop killing
by Tom Fox
An international conference taking place Dublin, Ireland, aims to ban the manufacture and use of cluster bombs, which Jacob Kellenberger, president of the International Red Cross has called 'weapons that never stop killing.' Tom Fox talks with Sister of Mercy Denise Coghlan who is attending the conference as a member of the Cluster Munitions Coalition is a global network of 200 civil society organizations working in over 70 countries to end the harm caused by cluster munitions.Coghlan, an Australian, works in Cambodia, where the 26 million cluster bombs were dropped there in the 1970s are still claiming victims today. The Vatican and Catholic organizations, such as Jesuit Refugee Services, have been ardent supporters of efforts to ban cluster bombs.Representatives of more than 100 states are attending the conference, although the United States, Russia and Britain -- some of the most prolific users of the small munitions -- are not attending.
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An international conference taking place Dublin, Ireland, aims to ban the manufacture and use of cluster bombs, which Jacob Kellenberger, president of the International Red Cross has called 'weapons that never stop killing.' Tom Fox talks with Sister of Mercy Denise Coghlan who is attending the conference as a member of the Cluster Munitions Coalition is a global network of 200 civil society organizations working in over 70 countries to end the harm caused by cluster munitions.Coghlan, an Australian, works in Cambodia, where the 26 million cluster bombs were dropped there in the 1970s are still claiming victims today. The Vatican and Catholic organizations, such as Jesuit Refugee Services, have been ardent supporters of efforts to ban cluster bombs.Representatives of more than 100 states are attending the conference, although the United States, Russia and Britain -- some of the most prolific users of the small munitions -- are not attending.
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