Interoperability and the Prohibition on Assistance, Memorandum to Delegates of the Dublin Diplomatic Conference on Cluster Munitions, Human Rights Watch, May 2008

Corsi, J. ORCID: 0000-0002-4029-1127 & Rogers, C. (2008). Interoperability and the Prohibition on Assistance, Memorandum to Delegates of the Dublin Diplomatic Conference on Cluster Munitions, Human Rights Watch, May 2008. New York, USA: Human Rights Watch.

Abstract

A provision obliging states parties not to assist with prohibited acts is an accepted and essential part of a modern weapons treaty. The draft cluster munitions convention includes such a provision in Article 1(c). Article 1(c) is based on extensive precedent from past weapons treaties and is indispensable to the humanitarian goal of the convention. Because it prevents states parties from contributing even indirectly to the use of cluster munitions, it promotes the object and purpose of the treaty, which is to minimize civilian harm from the weapons. It also stigmatizes cluster munitions by declaring that states parties will not tolerate their use by anyone and contributes to deterring use by non-states parties.

Publication Type:	Report
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform J Political Science > JZ International relations K Law U Military Science
Departments:	School of Policy & Global Affairs > Violence and Society Centre