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First ATT Academy training a success
The first training session of the ATT Academy concluded Thursday 23 June, following four days of in-depth learning about the Arms Trade Treaty. The fifteen course participants came from seven countries in the East and Horn of Africa, many of them signatories to the...
First session of the ATT Academy gets underway in Kenya
The ATT Academy got off to a strong start as its first training session opened on Monday 20 June in Lake Nakuru, Kenya. The first day took a focus on the context in which the Treaty exists including human and environmental impact of arms, and included a presentation...
Strategising for #ArmsFreeAfrica in East and Horn of Africa
A strategic planning meeting in Nairobi brought together a highly diverse group of civil society groups from across the East and Horn of Africa, to plan and develop campaigning efforts in the sub-region. Control Arms and also engaged new potential partners and members...
Enthusiastic response to Gun Runners premiere in Nairobi
Ten years ago, Kenyan cattle-rustler turned peace activist Julius Arile presented Control Arms’ “Million Faces” petition to the UN Secretary General in New York, calling for States to begin developing an Arms Trade...
“The ink is barely dry and States are violating the ATT” – Winnie Byanyima, Oxfam
There were strong words from Control Arms partners at the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) this week, as governments were called upon to live up to their legal and moral obligations, and stop arms transfers that fuel humanitarian suffering. Speaking at a High Level...
Campaigners work towards ATT implementation in South East Asia and Pacific Region
Participants from eight South East Asian and Pacific Island countries (Cambodia, Fiji, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Thailand and Vanuatu) came together in Siem Reap, Cambodia, for a Training Workshop on the ATT Laws and Implementation...
One year on campaigners remember Kenya massacre victims
It’s been one year since the Garissa University attack, in Kenya, where 147 students have lost their lives in a tragic terrorist attack. Thousands of people gathered to commemorate the victims by braving the scorching sun and completing a five kilometer “remembrance...
Control Arms members push for DRC’s accession to ATT
Control Arms members join forces in pushing for the Democratic Republic of Congo’s accession to the Arms Trade Treaty. Femmes des Médias pour la Justice au Congo (FMJC), WILPF-DRC and Vision Gram-International have been working together to raise awareness and advocate...
Zambia inches closer to ratification of the Arms Trade Treaty
Reported by Dr Robert Mtonga March 15-19, 2016 were red-letter days in Zambia’s quest to ratify the Arms Trade Treaty, with the Ministry of Defence, the lead agency in the process, announcing formally at two separate but related seminars that all due processes have...
Seventh Conference of States Parties (CSP202q)
CITY, COUNTRY - 00 - 00 Month 2021
Sierra Leone is presiding over the Seventh Conference of States Parties (CSP 2021) of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)
Background
Provisional Agenda LINKS
Provisional Annotated Program of Work LINKS
Final Report LINK
President's Announcement for CSP7 LINK
Press Release
Statements on behalf of the Control Arms Coalition
Media
