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Syria peace talks begin at last, but Syrian civil society and women sidelined

22 January 2014

At the closing of the first day of the Geneva II Conference, in Montreux, Oxfam’s Shaheen Chughtai said:
Final Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty Control Arms coalition calls on Chair not to cave in to pressure from India and P5 as new text falls short

25 March 2013

Campaigners today say radical changes must be made to the latest draft of the Arms Trade Treaty by the Presidency of the Conference, if the treaty is to save lives.
Time for governments to make history and agree to an Arms Trade Treaty

18 March 2013

Governments from over 190 member states have a second chance to make history this month by agreeing the first ever Arms Trade Treaty, a coalition of NGOs and human rights groups said today.
Urgent call for tighter rules on arms trade on eve of final treaty negotiations

12 March 2013

Draft Arms Trade Treaty text littered with loopholes which need fixing urgently to save lives.
Ammunition trade tops $4 billion yet little regulation to control and keep track of who bullets are sold to

30 May 2012

Global sales of ammunition are worth more than $4 billion and are growing at a faster rate than trade in guns, yet there is virtually no regulation in place to control where the bullets end up.
Stop a Bullet, Stop a War

30 May 2012

Guns are useless without bullets. An Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) that does not control ammunition will not achieve its purposes.