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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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