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Unexploded cluster bombs continue to kill and injure for days, months, even decades after conflict

Take Action to Stop Explosive Investments

 

The CMC's Stop Explosive Investments campaign:

  • Calls on governments to pass legislation to prohibit investments in cluster munition producers
  • Calls on governments to announce that they consider investments in cluster munition producers to be prohibited
  • Urges banks and other financial institutions to disinvest from cluster munition producers

Take Action!

Take action on disinvestment in your country, these are some actions that you can take:

 

Lobby your government and parliamentarians

  • Write letters to your government, or arrange a meeting with them to ask that they:
    • Include a prohibition on investment in national implementing legislation, or pass stand-alone legislation banning investments in producers of cluster munitions
    • Declare in a statement or letter that the government considers investment in cluster munition producers prohibited
  • Write letters to parliamentarians and meet with them to ask that they:
    • Support an inclusion in national implementing legislation or otherwise stand-alone legislation prohibiting investment in cluster munition producers
    • Urge the government to declare that it considers investment in cluster munition producers prohibited

 

 

Pressure financial institutions

  • Organise a creative action targeting financial institutions in your country that are investing in cluster munitions
  • Write letters to the financial institutions based in your country that are investing in cluster munitions and ask that they:  
    • Disinvest from cluster munition producers
    • Implement a comprehensive policy banning all types of investment and financial services to cluster munition producers

 

 

Reach out to media and relay your calls to the government and financial institutions

  • Hold a press conference or issue a press release and do media outreach
  • Campaign online to promote disinvestment: update your website with a news story, use the Stop Explosive Investments campaign logo as your Facebook profile photo, use Twitter hash tags #banclusterbombs and #disinvest

 

Launch of updated report

On 25 May 2011 CMC members Netwerk Vlaanderen and IKV Pax Christi launched the second update of their report “Worldwide investments in cluster munitions: a shared responsibility” in Brussels, Belgium.

This report provides updated information on:

 

  • Financial institutions that are investing in cluster munitions producers (this includes financial institutions in states that have joined and states that have not joined the treaty)
  • Financial institutions that have disinvested from cluster munition producers
  • States banning investments in cluster munitions

 

You can contact the report authors with questions or with information on updates to government and/or financial institutions policies on disinvestment

Contact:

Ms. Esther Vandenbroucke, esther.vandenbroucke@netwerkvlaanderen.be, + 32-2-201-0770

Ms. Roos Boer, boer@ikvpaxchristi.nl, +31-30-233-3346

Tell us about your actions

Please contact Kimberly Brown (Kimberly@icblcmc.org) to share information on disinvestment campaigning in your country. Please also get in touch if you would like to be added to the disinvestment email list (disinvest@googlegroups.com).