From:  Global Youth Mine Action Fellows

Dear Honorable Secretary Rubio:

As Mine Action Fellows, we urge you to immediately lift the 90-day stop-work order on U.S. foreign…

The U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines – U.S. Cluster Munition Coalition is deeply concerned about the global impact of President Trump’s 90 day stop work order for U.S. foreign assistance programming that suspends U.S.-funded mine clearance programs. 

Mine clearance serves humanitarian, national security, and economic aims.…

The U.S. Cluster Munition Coalition condemns the latest transfer of international-banned cluster munitions from the United States to Ukraine announced October 16, 2024. This is…

The U.S. Cluster Munition Coalition is deeply dismayed by President Biden’s decision to transfer internationally prohibited cluster munitions for the sixth time in less than 15 months to Ukraine, announced September 25.

“The U.S. transfers of cluster munitions run contrary to the international ban and ignore decades of evidence of civilian harm from these heinous weapons,” said Sera Koulabdara…

On September 25, 2024 the U.S. Cluster Munition Coalition and 18 organizations sent a letter to President Biden expressing grave concern with current U.S. policy and practice on cluster munitions and urging immediate action. The United States' continued actions in contradiction to the principles embodied in the Convention has potentially weakened the global norm against their use. Just ten days prior to the sending of the letter, during the Twelfth Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, this was starkly demonstrated by Lithuania’s formal declaration of its intent to denounce and withdraw from the Convention in six months’ time. The United States should be a global leader in the abolition of these indiscriminate weapons—not complicit in their use.