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Why is the Obama administration opposing global regulation of bullets in an ATT?
Control arms campaigners at a 2006 Africa illustrate how northern countries spread weapons all over Africa. Photo by the Control Arms Campaign.Throughout the Cold War the United States and the Soviet...
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Where is the American development and humanitarian voice in the ATT...
On the road between Mazar-i-Sharif and Kabul. Arms control regulations must strengthen development efforts in countries like Afghanistan. Photo by the Control Arms campaign. Section 2773 of the US...
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Sudan: What’s next for Abyei?
This blog was written by Noah Gottschalk, Senior policy advisor for humanitarian response Tensions are running high in Sudan, where an upsurge in violence in the border region of Abyei has displaced...
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Wanted: Peacekeepers who keep peace
This blog was written by Noah Gottschalk, Senior policy advisor for humanitarian response. The Republic of South Sudan will become the world’s newest country on July 9, just over three weeks from...
View ArticleDo as I say, not as I do
On Wednesday June 29, France confirmed that it parachuted arms, including guns and rocket-propelled grenades, to the Libyan rebels in the Nafusa Mountains. This arms transfer is a blatant violation of...
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Separating fact from fiction on the Arms Trade Treaty
A victim of armed violence in Albania. A parliamentarian from Uruguay. A women’s rights activist from the Central African Republic. And an American arms control expert. They all spoke last Thursday...
View ArticleCan Durban be the bridge to a better future on climate change?
My colleague Tim Gore, climate change policy advisor at Oxfam International, wrote this blog laying out what governments can achieve at UN Climate talks which are starting this week in Durban, South...
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Tackling legal loopholes in the international weapons trade
On April 5, the Federal New York District Court is expected to announce the sentence for Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer believed to be the inspiration for Nicolas Cage’s character in Hollywood’s...
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Time to resend the memo to ATT negotiators
On Monday April 16, I attended an event in Washington, DC where senior State Department officials gathered with representatives of the US arms industry, NGOs like Oxfam, and members of the public to...
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What’s the deal with bananas and the global arms trade?
Are there more international laws on the trade of bananas than conventional weapons, like AK-47s? The short answer is astonishingly, yes. The global trade in bananas or banana plants is governed by at...
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Global bigwigs push back on big oil
The chair of the Africa Progress Panel, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, has pushed back on an oil industry attack against the landmark US Dodd-Frank Act oil and mining payment disclosure...
View Article5 steps the US can take to end suffering in Syria
“It’s very, very sad that I leave this position and leave Syria behind in such a bad state.” With those words, UN-Arab League Special Envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi resigned his post, after a...
View ArticleThe right to say “No”: Indigenous rights experts weigh in on community consent
“I think the issue of consent goes to the very core of the rights that indigenous peoples are entitled to… because it is central to the whole notion of hegemony over property, culture, and I think...
View ArticleFive questions about the Sustainable Development Goals you were too...
This weekend at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, world leaders will gather to adopt a new set of global development goals for 2016-2030. They are known as the Sustainable Development...
View ArticleOne SDG to rule them all?
After years in the making, the next evolution of the Millennium Development Goals, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were launched at the UN General Assembly over the weekend. And though some...
View Article5 ways President Trump's xenophobic agenda has accelerated during the...
The administration is using the coronavirus crisis to deny asylum seekers their rights and make generational changes to immigration policy.
View ArticleRemembering Senator Richard Lugar at a time of international crisis
The Indiana Senator’s vision and playbook of American collaboration on the world stage is what we need today.
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