Clearance in Lao PDR
Clearance demonstration on a field trip to Xieng Khouang, Lao PDR during the First Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions. Photo credit: Stefano Chiolo/CMC 
(Geneva, 18 April 2012) Yesterday at the global meeting on progress being made against the Convention on Cluster Munitions, states home to communities living in the shadow of unexploded cluster bombs gave updates on how the treaty forges increased clearance of this lethal threat.