Anna Macdonald, Head of Control Arms, Oxfam International
Yesterday Control Arms and the 7 lead governments on the ATT (the coauthors of last year’s ATT resolution), Argentina, Australia, Costa Rica, Finland, Japan, Kenya and the UK, held a joint lunch meeting Next Steps Toward an Effective ATT. We discussed the next stage in making an ATT [...]
Entries from October 2007
October 24, 2007
A big pile of sandwiches and a moment of realising we’re making a difference…
October 23, 2007
The Peoples’ Consultation
My name is Vavine Gabi and I have flown thousands of miles from my country to tell UN delegates about my experience of armed violence. My mother was shot dead in front of me eight years ago, just after my sixteenth birthday. She has been in my thoughts every day since then, but i felt [...]
October 23, 2007
Parliamentarians from around the world support an ATT
By Sauro Scarpelli, Control Arms Campaigner.
Today we hosted the penultimate event this year in New York for the Control Arms campaign: ” The role of parliamentarians in supporting an ATT”. In the past year the campaign has done lots of work with MPs they have a crucial role in the promotion, adoption and implementation [...]
October 22, 2007
High Tea With The Ambassadors’ Wives…
By Bruce Millar, Control Arms Campaigner
Vavine Gabi and I attended a colourful event on Friday, afternoon tea with the association of UN Ambassadors’ wives. We had been kindly invited by Susan Issy, the wife of the Papua New Guinea Ambassador Robert Issy.
Vavine lost her mother to gun violence in Papua New Guinea, and is [...]
October 18, 2007
Control Arms Meets The Liberian President!
By Anna Macdonald, Head of Control Arms, Oxfam International
It was a packed day yesterday here at the UN, as in addition to running a lunchtime meeting with states, to present Control Arms analysis of government’s submissions to the UN consultation on an ATT, we also had a meeting with the Liberian President, Mrs Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. [...]
October 12, 2007
Africa’s Missing Billions
By Sahra Caffarate, Control Arms Campaigner
Well it’s not everyday that you get to eat breakfast with ambassadors, but that’s exactly what the team here got to do yesterday morning. Yesterday saw us all rising at the rather traumatising hour of 6am for a breakfast meeting with African States, to launch a new Oxfam, IANSA & [...]
October 10, 2007
From The Front Line
By Sahra Caffarate, Control Arms Campaigner.
It’s the morning after our first event and as the rest of team head back down to the UN I thought I’d send you a quick update on what happened yesterday.
We kicked off the first series of Control Arms events we have planned over the next few weeks. ‘From The [...]
October 8, 2007
We’re Back!
A year has passed since the Control Arms (CA) team were last in New York, & what a year it has been; the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) process has been gathering momentum since that historic day last October when 153 governments voted in favor of making an ATT a reality at the United Nations General [...]
