Entries from August 2007

August 31, 2007

Weapons overflow

 By Fred Lubang, Nonviolence International, Philippines

  

 It’s been a week of listening intently on the discussion among states on the issue of small arms transfer at the small arms meeting in Geneva. It occured to me, the logic is really simple – when you continuously pour water in a glass, it overflows. Or expressed in another [...]

August 31, 2007

More South South cooperation needed

By Folade Mutota, Women’s Institute for Alternative Development (WINAD), Trinidad and Tobago
Canada’s Informal Meeting on Transfer Control Principles for Small Arms and Light Weapons in Geneva continues to facilitate information sharing among States on the opportunities available for cooperation and capacity building.  This is the fifth and last day, of the meeting and I’ve found [...]

August 30, 2007

Arms transfers must be based on International law

By Sauro Scarpelli, Amnesty International 
 
One of the things that I’m finding very interesting during the international meeting on transfer controls for small arms that is taking place this week in Geneva, is the openness of  the discussion. Because of the informal nature of this meeting, I think states’ representatives feel more free to make their interventions [...]

August 30, 2007

An unusually frank exchange of views!

 
By Lina Holguin, Oxfam

By Lina Holguin, Oxfam
This is my fourth day in Geneva at the Meeting on transfer control principles for small arms and light weapons.  Together with my Control Arms colleagues and other NGOs we have been attending all the sessions, meeting with states delegates to talk about specific issues and at the end of [...]

August 28, 2007

Control arms campaigners are back!

By Lina Holguin, Oxfam. 
Once more Control Arms - Oxfam, Amnesty and IANSA - campaigners are present at a key international meeting on arms and I am very glad to be one of them.  From August 27 to 31, we will be in Geneva taken part on the Informal Meeting on Transfer Control Principles for Small [...]

August 24, 2007

Control Arms goes to Geneva

The Control Arms team is on it’s way to the Conference on Small Arms Transfers in Geneva. We will be there to represent the views and stories of Control Arms campaign supporters, as well as, people who have been affected by small arms and weapons violence.
This meeting is very important step on the way to achieveing an international Arms [...]