Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons | Convention on Conventional Weapons | Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects | Convention on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons | Conventional Weaponry Convention | Inhumane Weapons Convention | CCW [Abbr.]

Conventional Weapons Convention Review Conference on Anti-Personnel Mines

Convention on prohibition or restriction on the use of certain conventional weapons which may be deemed to be excessively injurious or to have indiscriminate effects [ CCW | Convention on inhumane weapons ]

Inter-American Convention on Transparency in Conventional Arms Acquisitions

Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Inhumane Conventional Weapons | Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects

conventional weapon [ artillery ]

Additional protocol to the Convention on prohibitions or restrictions on the use of certain conventional weapons which may be deemed to be excessively injurious or to have indiscriminate effects (Protocol IV)

Convention of 13 January 1993 on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction | Chemical Weapons Convention [ CWC ]

Biological Weapons Convention | Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention [ BWC ]

Small Arms Convention

1. Calls on the Member States not to adopt, endorse or subsequently ratify any protocol to the CCW allowing for the use of cluster munitions, which are prohibited under the CCM, and calls on the Council and the Member States to act accordingly at the Fourth CCW Review Conference to be held from 14 to 25 November 2011 in Geneva;

E. whereas the draft text of Protocol VI to the CCW to be discussed at the Fourth CCW Review Conference is neither legally compatible with nor complementary to the CCM; whereas, while States Parties to the CCM are legally bound to destroy all munitions, this draft protocol would only ban pre-1980 cluster munitions, provides for a lengthy transitional period that would enable compliance to be deferred for at least 12 years, would allow the use of cluster munitions with only one self-destruction mechanism, and would permit states to use cluster munitions with a so-called failure rate of 1% or less;

E. whereas the draft text of Protocol VI to the CCW to be discussed at the Fourth CCW Review Conference is neither legally compatible with nor complementary to the CCM; whereas, while States Parties to the CCM are legally bound to destroy all munitions, this draft protocol would only ban pre-1980 cluster munitions, provides for a lengthy transitional period that would enable compliance to be deferred for at least 12 years, would allow the use of cluster munitions with only one self-destruction mechanism, and would permit states to use cluster munitions with a so-called failure rate of 1% or less;

J. whereas the draft text of Protocol VI which will be discussed during the Fourth review Conference on the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) is neither legally compatible nor complimentary to the CCM; whereas while state parties to the CCM are legally bound to destroy all munitions, this draft protocol will only ban pre-1980 cluster munitions, contains a lengthy transition that would enable compliance to be deferred for at least 12 years and allows the use of cluster munitions with only self-destruction mechanism, and ...[+++] permit states to use cluster munitions with so called failure rate of 1% or less;