Philippine experts recently briefed United Nations (UN) diplomats on how best practices in the Bangsamoro promote the humanitarian norms of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW), a landmark treaty that seeks to limit warfare by balancing security considerations with humanitarian protection.
(UN photo) GENEVA - Philippine civil society experts briefed United Nations (UN) diplomats on how best practices in the Bangsamoro promote the humanitarian norms of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW), a landmark treaty that seeks to limit warfare by balancing security considerations with humanitarian protection. The CCW is an umbrella treaty composed of five protocols, each dealing with the prohibition or regulation of specific weapons. Two of the protocols - Amended Protocol II on mines, booby traps, and other explosive devices, and Protocol V on explosive remnants of war (ERW) - provide for regular Group of Experts (GOE) meetings where state parties exchange views on how best to implement the agreements. At the GOE meeting held here July 20 to 22, the Philippines announced that it has ratified Protocol V in April, completing the country's formal adherence to all CCW protocols. The protocol will take effect in thePhilippines in November. Spanish Ambassador Ignacio Sanche