by Raluca Muresan | Jul 12, 2012 | News
After months of diligent campaigning, members of the Control Arms Coalition met with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in a handover ceremony on Tuesday, July 3rd. Salil Shetty (Amnesty International), Ross Robertson, MP (New Zealand), Bishop Elias Taban,...
by Raluca Muresan | Jul 9, 2012 | News
Anna MacDonald Oxfam’s Head of Control Arms Campaign: “The arms trade is often a shadowy business with arms deals being conducted in isolation, behind closed doors. The Arms Trade Treaty is attempting to shed some light over this trade and ensure that we have...
by Raluca Muresan | Jul 3, 2012 | News
Jeff Abramson, Director of the Secretariat of the Control Arms coalition said: “While demands of the Palestinian people for state recognition is an important and legitimate issue, this is the wrong forum to be addressing it. “The world has waited too long for the...
by Raluca Muresan | Jul 2, 2012 | News
Time to end ‘body bag’ approach to arms control and support a robust Arms Trade Treaty New York – Political leaders have a historic opportunity to place human rights and humanitarian aims above self-interest and profit when final negotiations to regulate the global...
by Raluca Muresan | Jul 2, 2012 | News
International artists including Kristin Davis, Keira Knightley, Yoko Ono, Scarlett Johansson, Coldplay, Tim Roth, Annie Lennox and Kevin Spacey have joined forces to demand governments take immediate action to help improve regulation of the international arms trade....
by Raluca Muresan | Jul 1, 2012 | News
On the morning of July 1st, Julius Arile gave Control Arms its first victory. While running in the Queens 10k race amongst 13,000 competitors, the cattle raider turned Arms trade Treaty activist won in impressive fashion. He crossed the finish line more than 3 minutes...
