by Raluca Muresan | Nov 20, 2016 | News
Over 35 senior military officers from SADC and East African Community regions attended an in depth session on “The Universalization of the Arms Trade Treaty” hosted by Dr. Peter B. Mcomalla, peace and security expert and Executive Director of Human Rights, Education...
by Raluca Muresan | Nov 2, 2016 | News
Collapsed buildings and destroyed cities, people fleeing their countries and most tragically the faces of frightened children from Syria, Yemen or South Sudan has become the norm on TV and social media. That is why this year, Control Arms has attempted to shift the...
by Raluca Muresan | Oct 24, 2016 | News
Control Arms and Zambia hosted an informal lunch at UNGA First Committee to discuss new research by Matthew Bolton of Pace University, on how the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) can address the violent nexus between wildlife crime and illicit arms trafficking. The report was...
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...
