by Raluca Muresan | 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...
by Raluca Muresan | Oct 13, 2016 | News
Over 140 people lost their lives and more than 500 were injured on Saturday, 4 October, after a Saudi-led coalition airstrike targeted a funeral in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a. This attack was especially tragic, but it was only the latest incident in a long-running...
by Raluca Muresan | Sep 22, 2016 | News
On Wednesday the US senate considered a vote to stop new arms transfers to Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately, the efforts by a bipartisan group of four Senators to introduce Senate Joint Resolution 39 to block a $1.15 million sale of tanks and other equipment to the Saudi...
by Raluca Muresan | Sep 8, 2016 | News
The UK government is facing increasing pressure to halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia over continued concerns of breaches of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) in Yemen. The BBC Newsnight programme reported a leaked draft report by the cross-party Committee on Arms...
by Raluca Muresan | Aug 29, 2016 | News
The second Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) concluded with a disappointing lack of substantial discussion. In particular, States Parties avoided discussion of arms transfers that are in violation of the ATT – particularly with regard to...
by Raluca Muresan | Aug 23, 2016 | News
Control Arms calls for action as second Conference of States Parties opens in Geneva Geoffrey Duke, Director of the South Sudan Action Network on Small Arms, gave a strong statement as part of the opening High Level panel for the start of the second Conference of...
