James Cowan, CEO of The HALO Trust, undermines decades of humanitarian progress by endorsing landmines as a military necessity for Ukraine in the Evening Standard, risking the erosion of global consensus embodied in the Ottawa Convention and contradicting the core humanitarian principles his organisation represents.

Action on Armed Violence reports on the alarming use of deadly cluster munitions in Ukraine by both Russian and Ukrainian forces, backed by the recent findings from Human Rights Watch (HRW), and urges an immediate halt to the use and procurement of these indiscriminate weapons.