Short film on disinvestment campaign launch

Cluster bombs are banned under the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, but 138 banks and other financial institutions are still investing over $20 billion USD in the producers of these indiscriminate weapons. Activists paid a visit to 2 of the top banks investing in cluster bombs in the UK, Barclays and HSBC, to call on …

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CMC launches global campaign to clamp down on banks funding cluster bomb producers

Today in London, campaigners launched the CMC’s ‘Stop explosive investments’ campaign to promote disinvestment from cluster bomb producers. Please check out the new website: www.stopexplosiveinvestments.org and the detailed toolkit which is a comprehensive one stop shop for all campaigning on disinvestment and cluster bombs. The CMC press release on the campaign launch is available here: …

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Press release: campaign calls on governments to stop funding production of cluster bombs

Almost one year on from the historic signing of the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Oslo in December 2008, campaigners have today launched a call on governments to stem the flow of money to producers of these indiscriminate weapons. The new CMC campaign is entitled ‘stop explosive investments’. “Governments made history when they signed the …

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