by Raluca Muresan | Mar 8, 2013 | News
Today marks the opening of the Regional Parliamentary Workshop on ‘Addressing the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons and Supporting an Arms Trade Treaty – The Role of Parliamentarians’. Hosted by the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee of the...
by Raluca Muresan | Mar 6, 2013 | News
Members of the global Control Arms coalition are actively preparing for the upcoming Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) negotiations scheduled to begin at the United Nations on 18 March. This conference is the follow-up to the negotiating conference that took place in July 2012...
by Raluca Muresan | Nov 8, 2012 | News
Diplomats voted on 7 November to hold a final UN Conference on the ATT in March 2013. The vote came on the last day of the UN’s First Committee and was passed with an unprecedented 157 votes in favour, 18 abstentions and 0 votes against. The resolution does include...
by Raluca Muresan | Oct 18, 2012 | News
During the second week of the UN General Assembly’s First Committee session, Control Arms sponsored “Finishing the Job: Delivering a Bullet-Proof Arms Trade Treaty”. This focused on the substance and future of the ATT. The event was co-hosted by the Permanent Mission...
by Raluca Muresan | Oct 8, 2012 | News
During the opening week of the General Assembly, heads of state and high level ministers delivered speeches at the United Nations, effectively laying out what they felt were the most important issues for their countries this year. It was evident that the Arms Trade...
