{"id":1560,"date":"2019-07-04T14:35:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T18:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wvcbl.org\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2019-07-22T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T18:36:09","slug":"world-cup-soccer-inspires-children-to-work-for-world-free-of-landmines-and-cluster-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wvcbl.org\/?p=1560","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Soccer Inspires Children to Work for World Free of Landmines and Cluster Bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Displaying<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every World Cup tournament inspires young people worldwide to be the soccer players\/ footballers of tomorrow. Yet for those living in cluster munition, landmine and UXO contaminated countries, this dream remains a difficult reality.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"DisplayingA cluster munition, also known as a cluster bomb, is a weapon containing multiple explosive submunitions. Like landmines, these submunitions can remain a fatal threat to anyone in the area long after a conflict ends.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cluster munitions are dropped from aircraft or fired from the ground or sea, opening up in mid-air to release tens or hundreds of submunitions, which can saturate an area up to the size of several football fields. Anybody within the strike area of the cluster munition, be they military or civilian, is very likely to be killed or seriously injured.\u00a0The fuze of each submunition is generally activated as it falls so that it will explode above or on the ground. But often large numbers of the submunitions fail to work as designed, and instead land on the ground without exploding, where they remain as very dangerous.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Displaying<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Indiscriminate Weapons<\/strong><\/p>\n