TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Cluster munitions: public health and international humanitarian law perspectives
JO  - Journal of law and medicine
A1  - Freckelton, Ian
SP  - 481
EP  - 488
VL  - 15
IS  - 4
N2  - As a result of civilian deaths in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Chechnya, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon, cluster munitions have been recognised to pose a grave threat to civilian populations because of their limited precision and problematically high rate of initial failure to explode. Efforts are intensifying to ban cluster munitions and to mandate those who have discharged them to defuse them effectively so as to reduce the risks to civilians. This editorial reviews these efforts and identifies a need for them to be actively supported by both the legal and medical communities.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1320-159X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -