by ralucam | Mar 27, 2018 | Blog
Anna Macdonald is the Director of Control Arms. ‘This is what a tipping point looks like’ said the sign held up by a group of teens, along with ‘Watch out I can vote in 7 months’ and ‘Not Representing Americans’. Attending the DC March for Our Lives on Saturday was...
by ralucam | 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 h9rcp | Jul 10, 2017 | Blog
Written by Radhya Almutawakel, a Yemen-based human rights defender and co-founder of Mwatana Organization for Human Rights, Control Arms member For nearly two and half years now, civilians in Yemen have been subjected to a near-daily barrage of bombing. Our schools,...
by ralucam | Jun 3, 2017 | Blog
Four years ago the Arms Trade Treaty opened for signature in New York. Almost 70 world leaders were in the audience, eager to be among the first to sign the ATT. It was a celebratory day, full of ambitious statements of what this new Treaty, the first to regulate the...
by h9rcp | May 24, 2017 | Blog
One of the largest arms sales in history was announced on 20 May to an armed force that has carried out widespread violations of human rights and the laws of war during the last few years. During Donald Trump’s first international trip as US President, his...
Some Progress at ATT MeetingsMarch 13, 2018
Three countries stop arms sales to warring parties in YemenJanuary 22, 2018
ATT implementation and universalisation events at UNGA First CommitteeNovember 6, 2017
ICAN is awarded Nobel Peace Prize for Nuclear Ban TreatyOctober 6, 2017
First Step Towards Accountability in YemenSeptember 29, 2017