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The U.S. will send a new weapon to Ukraine. Human rights advocates are alarmed.

Many of them were women and children trying to flee the conflict. there is strong evidence that this was a cluster munition attack. here in ukraine, defence officials say cluster munitions could make a significant difference on the battlefield, helping them break through russian defences. kyiv argues that russia has been using the weapons in ukraine, so ukraine should have the right to use them on its own territory, for its own self—defence. but providing these cluster munitions has been divis...

The weapon is banned by many countries. NPR's Michel Martin talks to Sera Koulabdara of the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Munition Coalition, about why the U.S. think it's worth the risk.

U.S. officials will reportedly make a decision on sending the highly controversial weapons as early as this week.

White House is weighing providing Ukraine with weapons opposed by human rights groups

Systems that can be fired either from a ground-based system or from air. and what they do is they spread. they release multiple bomblets in various directions. so the main danger that -- explode upon impact or upon release. and once that happens, theres a possibility that civilians could years from now be wounded or even killed by cluster munition bomblets that find their way into farm fields, city streets, and areas like that. cluster munition is a very dangerous weapon. and in fact, 120 nation...

People were shocked after the first year of the war, life was back. so it was devastating for us, but the use of the precise weapon also really matters — during our previous investigation, we were able to prove that it was a cluster munition used, which hitting a human infrastructure, not a military structure, which can be a mounted as a war crime. in this particular space its a really peaceful place, and even if you think that there were military there, there were no military commanders, peop...

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Simple, deadly, efficient -- mines are being used in "phenomenal quantities" in Ukraine, including some types that are prohibited under international law, making the country one of the world's biggest minefields."From a military point of view, the war in Ukraine marks the great return of mine usage," said Stephane Audrand, a specialist in international risk, saying they are being used in "phenomenal quantities".

Content that is uploaded to social media. we archive this content related to different types of human violations, such as the use of illegal munitions such as chemical weapons, or a cluster munition. they have saved well over 700,000 images from war zones, before they were removed from social media. including three videos of the attack on the market in aleppo, where emad witnessed his friends and customers die. they can only focus on a couple of areas of conflict, leaving others to fill the gaps...