Update from Cluster Munition Coalition Australia

The Cluster Munition Coalition Australia is a group of Australian non-governmental organisations that supports the international call to stop cluster munitions from harming civilians.

A few updates from CMCA

a. Online Opinion by Michelle Fahy - a Canberra-based writer with over twenty years experience in the financial services sector. She is a member of the Medical Association for Prevention of War.

Should Australian savings be funneled to cluster bomb manufacture?

b. ACT Greens introduce draft legislation to require the ACT Government to invest more ethically

MEDIA RELEASE | ACT should be invested ethically: Greens

c. Recent editorial and news article in the Canberra Times about ethical investment

Canberra Times 24th and 27th of October

d. Disarmament Week is only a month away - 24-30th of October. Watch this space for CMCA's advocacy work.

e. The ANZ Postcard campaign to stop the bank from providing finance to companies that manufacture cluster munitions has been picking up speed. Keep the pressure on as we know that the big bosses are worried at the public display of concern.

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