There is an Explosives Act governing the manufacture and control of explosives in Mauritius.

27. Construction of an explosives and ammunition store, which will provide both internal and external protection against incidental detonation.

As a result of their increased use of explosives collateral damage has increased.

A cut off treaty would cap the amount of material available for nuclear explosives.

The use of commercially available and improvised explosives by Al Qaida and its associates is commonplace (see box 5).

Despite this lack of data, what is known is that the number of deaths caused by the intentional misuse of ERW remains very high in Iraq.

Although the vehicles were covered after they had been removed, they were now absent from their respective resting places at the site of the explosion, thereby preventing any ballistic analysis, explosive analysis and evidence gathering at the scene

The main reason is that the assessment of the humanitarian risk cannot only be based on objective criteria. By its nature it is a rather subjective undertaking, which must take into account perceptions of individual countries, past experiences from former conflicts as well as eye witness accounts of the humanitarian implications of explosive remnants of war.