by Control Arms | 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 Control Arms | Feb 29, 2016 | News
Control Arms today requested the ATT States Party meeting in Geneva to have an emergency agenda item on the arms sales to Saudi Arabia that are fueling the suffering of civilians in Yemen. This request was declined by the Chair, who said there was not enough time to...
by Control Arms | Feb 26, 2016 | News
GENEVA: Campaigners are today calling on governments due to attend the latest round of discussions on the implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in Geneva on Monday to set their hypocrisy aside and stop selling billions of dollars worth of deadly weapons to...
by Control Arms | May 19, 2021 | News, Statement
For decades, the sustained state-sponsored repression of the Palestinian people by Israel has been marked by periods of armed violence, each time resulting in a heavy toll of civilian casualties and scores of violations of international human rights and humanitarian...
by Control Arms | Apr 28, 2020
Arms Control in the Time of COVID-19 As the world reels from the coronavirus outbreak in the first half of 2020, the global community is being forced to reckon with the consequences of prioritizing short term profits over long term investments, in areas such as...