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Category Archives: Control Arms
Are states getting cold feet as Arms Trade Treaty talks heat up?
By Widney Brown, Senior Director of International Law and Policy at Amnesty International As the first week draws to a close at the Arms Trade Treaty negotiations being held at the UN in New York, there is a chill in … Continue reading
Why there is no peace time for women
Widney Brown is senior director for international law and policy at Amnesty International. She will attend the diplomatic conference on the arms trade treaty taking place in New York this month. That women and girls are singled out during armed … Continue reading
Youth activists take over Amnesty’s headquarters to do the Obama Harlem Shake!
By Michael Parsons, Activism Unit Assistant Late on a Tuesday in early March, I found myself standing in the middle of a conference room at Amnesty’s International Secretariat in London, UK, surrounded by multicoloured balloons. Only half an hour earlier … Continue reading
Posted in Arms Trade, Control Arms, International Organizations, UN, USA
Tagged Arms Trade Treaty
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‘Why is the world doing nothing?’ – cluster bomb attack by the Syrian army in Aleppo
By Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International’s Senior Crisis Adviser In a field hospital, which I won’t name for security reasons – too many field hospitals have been bombed already – a little boy of 7, Abdo al-Dik, was shaking like a … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Control Arms, Middle East And North Africa, Syria
Tagged airstrikes, children, cluster bombs, cluster munitions, Syria, war crimes
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Read WIRE and take action against the death penalty
“I can’t believe he’s not here anymore,” Lubou Kavalyoua told WIRE about her son, Ulad, who was executed and buried in secret last year. She still doesn’t know where his grave is. Read their story on page 18 in WIRE … Continue reading
Posted in Abolish the death penalty, Arms Trade, Belarus, Control Arms, Death Penalty, Demand Dignity, Detention, Discrimination, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, EU, Europe And Central Asia, Human Rights Defenders and Activists, Hungary, Individuals at Risk, International Justice, Iraq, Prisoners of Conscience, Racial Discrimination, Security with Human Rights, Slums and the Right to Housing, Syria, Torture and Ill-treatment, Uncategorized, Unfair Trials, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
Tagged Roma rights
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