An exciting international movement is underway to ban cluster bombs - and it's about time. Cluster bombs, like landmines, overwhelmingly kill and maim civilians, and they do it for years after conflict has ended. Handicap International reports that 98 percent of all casualties from cluster bombs are non-combatants.

These weapons drop hundreds or thousands of small "bomblets" over a large area. Many do not detonate on impact and in effect create a minefield, lying near towns, playgrounds, and farms. Many children are blown up when they mistake the metal object for a toy. (Way to take action after the jump.)