For decades, FCNL has worked to ban the use of landmines and cluster munitions, which maim and kill indiscriminately, inflicting human suffering even long after conflict ends.
As co-chairs of the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines - Cluster Munition Coalition (USCBL-CMC), we have joined with likeminded organizations and affected communities to urge the United States to join the majority of countries who have signed international agreements to ban these inhumane weapons, which violate the basic principles of international humanitarian law.
Following the White House decision in January 2020 to roll back longstanding U.S. policy against the use of landmines, FCNL returned this issue to the top of our agenda. FCNL’s current focus is on the U.S. ratification of the Mine Ban Treaty and Convention on Cluster Munitions and an end to U.S. use, development, production, transfer, sale and acquisition of these weapons.
