WILPF: Women and Cluster Munitions

Cluster bombs are weapons that consist of one carrier container filled with separate bomblets. A cluster bomb can contain anywhere from 9 to several hundred bomblets. When dropped, the bomb is designed to open mid-air and distribute the bomblets so that they, on impact, will explode and affect an area that can be as wide as several football fields.

Women and Cluster Munitions. Despite the recognition of the importance of gender in experiences with landmines, little attention has been given to gender in the process to ban cluster munitions.