by Raluca Muresan | Apr 11, 2012 | News
As part of the “100 Days of Speaking Out!”, a countdown to the treaty negotiations, Control Arms will regularly feature stories and profiles of different people who support a bulletproof ATT. Rima Chemirik, chargée de plaidoyer sur le Traité sur le commerce des armes...
by Raluca Muresan | Apr 10, 2012 | News
Daniel Bassey, MD is with the Society of Nigerian Doctors for the Welfare of Mankind (IPPNW Nigeria). Below is his reflection on being a medical doctor in Africa. Anytime I see a patient with gunshot injuries, the first thing that comes to my mind is, “Yes you may be...
by Raluca Muresan | Apr 9, 2012 | News
Last Wednesday, the Exeter University Oxfam group partnered up with the Exeter University Amnesty International group to deliver an awareness raising “Die In” in the middle of campus to raise awareness about the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) campaign. The groups were both...
by Raluca Muresan | Apr 6, 2012 | News
From April 1st through April 5th, over 5, 000 students from nearly 200 colleges and universities from around the world gathered in New York City to take part in the National Model United Nations (NMUN) conference. The conference was a simulation of United Nations...
by Raluca Muresan | Apr 5, 2012 | News
The reflection below is from Kathi Lynn Austin, an arms trafficking expert who has tracked arms dealer Viktor Bout for years. He is being sentenced today in a New York Court. “With the sentencing today in a New York Federal court, the final chapter closes on one of...
by Raluca Muresan | Apr 5, 2012 | News
The following statement may be attributed to Jeff Abramson, Director of the Control Arms Secretariat: “The sentencing of an arms dealer, even one as notorious as Viktor Bout, does not undo suffering already caused or bring anyone back to life. What Bout’s sentencing...
