by Raluca Muresan | Dec 16, 2015 | News
The British Government is breaking national, EU and international law and policy by supplying weapons to Saudi Arabia in the context of its military intervention and bombing campaign in Yemen, according to a legal analysis by eminent international law experts...
by Raluca Muresan | Dec 7, 2015 | News
On 7 December, the UN General Assembly adopted the Arms Trade Treaty Resolution in a vote that included even more supporting states than the resolution’s preceding First Committee vote. In the UNGA vote, 157 States voted in favour of the resolution, with none opposed...
by Raluca Muresan | Nov 5, 2015 | News
On 4 November, the UN First Committee adopted the Arms Trade Treaty Resolution (UN L.54). 150 States voted in favour of the resolution, with zero opposed and 26 abstentions. This year’s resolution voting result was evocative of last year’s ATT vote. There were only...
by Raluca Muresan | Nov 4, 2015 | News
On 2 November, Seychelles became the 78th State Party to the Arms Trade Treaty. Seychelles was one of the first States to sign onto the treaty upon its opening for signature at the United Nations in June of 2013. Control Arms welcomes Seychelles’ ratification and the...
by Raluca Muresan | Oct 29, 2015 | News
What would happen if States with long histories of violence and conflict – States torn apart by civil war and caught in the crosshairs of the deadly arms trade – embraced and fully implemented the Arms Trade Treaty? Could its accession catalyse the accession of other...
