Mine Action Review today published its annual report Clearing Cluster Munition Remnants 2025, ahead of the Thirteenth Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), taking place in Geneva 16–19 September.
The report finds that global clearance of land suspected or confirmed to be contaminated by cluster munition remnants (CMR) reached a record 227.9km² in 2024 – an increase of almost 18% on the previous year’s total. In the same period, more than 133,600 unexploded submunitions were destroyed, also a sharp rise on 2023.
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