Convention on Cluster Muntion was adopted on 30 May 2008 in Dublin, Ireland, signed on 3-4 December 2008 in Oslo, Norway and entered into force on 1 August 2010.

Civilians accounted for 95% of cluster munition casualties in 2022.

There were at least 1,172 new cluster munition casualties across eight countries in 2022.

987 were killed or wounded in cluster munition attacks and at least 185 people were killed or wounded by cluster munition remnants.

Children made up 71% of casualties from cluster munition remnants.

In Ukraine alone, cluster munition attacks killed and injured at least 890 people in 2022.

United States began transferring an unspecified quantity of its stockpiled.

155mm artillery-delivered cluster munitions to Ukraine.

A total of 112 countries have ratified or acceded to the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, while 12 more have signed.

Bulgaria, Peru, and Slovakia destroyed a total of at least 4,166 stockpiled cluster munitions and 134,598 submunitions during 2022 and the first half of 2023

Cluster munition contamination cleared more than 93

square kilometers in 2022, destroying at least 75,525 submunitions and other cluster munition remnants.

Source: Cluster Munition Monitor Report