Dear Member of the Parliamentary Forum,

Your government is one of the 95 states that have signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions, showing a real commitment to the protection of civilians and to the strengthening of international humanitarian law.

Parliamentary involvement in the process has been crucial and will be even more important as states start to work to ratify the Convention.



What can you do?

We urge you to encourage your government to begin the ratification process and work on implementing the Convention:

Ask questions in parliament to find out what work the government has done to start the ratification process, and when it will be completed;
Table motions in parliament urging the government to ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions;
· Engage with relevant parliamentary committees (foreign affairs, defence) to discuss how to encourage the Convention to be ratified quickly

Join the parliamentary friends of the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) to keep up to date and exchange of ideas on how to promote the Convention. Contact Portia Stratton at pstratton@landmineaction.org


These useful documents can be found following the link below:

CMC Guide on ‘How to ratify the Convention’
CMC Short briefing paper on the Convention.
ICRC Model Law on the Convention


http://www.stopclustermunitions.org/take-action/mp/



We look forward to hearing from you what steps are being taken to ensure that the Convention is ratified.



Yours sincerely





Teresa Dybeck

Desk Officer

Parliamentary Forum on Small Arms and Light Weapons

office: +46 (0)8 653 2543

mobile: +46 (0)70 386 15 45

dybeck@parlforum.org

www.parlforum.org