by Control Arms | Mar 7, 2018 | Blog
Ben Donaldson is Head of Campaigns at the United Nations Association – UK, a British charity and grassroots organisation devoted to building support for an effective United Nations. Ben leads the Association’s work on arms control. Whatever good the UK might be doing...
by Control Arms | Jan 22, 2018 | News
Is the tide turning? Three governments in three weeks have said they will stop selling weapons to countries involved in the war in Yemen. Germany is the latest supplier to announce such a move, saying that as part of negotiations to form a new coalition government it...
by Control Arms | Sep 29, 2017 | News
Today, the Human Rights Council in Geneva made progress towards achieving peace, justice, and accountability in Yemen by mandating a formal investigation into human rights abuses by all parties in the country. “Finally, the Human Rights Council is prioritizing the...
by Control Arms | Sep 12, 2017 | News
Control Arms campaigners from around the world gathered this morning in front of the United Nations in Geneva to draw attention to the human suffering caused by armed violence in many places from Yemen and Honduras to Papua New Guinea and South Sudan. They urged...
by Control Arms | Oct 21, 2016 | News
“Do you have to be killed in an airstrike to count?” This is the despairing lament of a Yemeni doctor after seeing yet another child die from starvation, shown in the BBC film “Starving Yemen”. The powerful documentary was screened at a well-attended side event...
