Some observations on the legal implications of Palestine’s accession to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM)
by Daniel Rietiker, PhD The facts: On 2 January 2015, Palestine deposited its instrument of accession with United Nations authorities in New York in respect of the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM). Palestine is the fourth Party to the CCM in the region – following Iraq, Lebanon,and Tunisia – to ban cluster munitions. Since 2010, Palestine has…