by Raluca Muresan | Jul 13, 2012 | News
On Wednesday, June 11, civil society had the opportunity to address the participants of the Arms Trade Treaty Diplomatic Conference at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Several members of the Control Arms coalition, including representatives from Amnesty...
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 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 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...