Campaign blog entries tagged with 'Control Arms'

Cluster munitions banned! – Dec 5

David Miliband (seated) signing the Oslo Treaty, witnessed by campaigners including Oxfam's Anna MacDonald (sixth from right). Earlier this year, more than 110 countries reached agreement on a groundbreaking... more

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Can we control It? Yes we can! – Nov 4

While US election celebrations continue, we've got a victory of our own to announce. After ongoing pressure as part of the Control Arms campaign, an overwhelming majority of UN... more

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Rickshaws Race for an Arms Trade Treaty – Oct 22

Two years ago, after three years of tireless campaigning the Control Arms campaign made a historic breakthrough, when 153 United Nations governments voted in favour of a legally-binding, international... more

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Huge campaign victory as cluster bomb ban agreed – Jun 2

Last week in Dublin, more than 110 countries reached agreement on a groundbreaking treaty to ban cluster bombs. Oxfam's head of arms control Anna Macdonald campaigned throughout the cluster munitions... more

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What's to come in 2008 – Jan 10

Well here we are. Nearly two weeks of 2008 behind us, and the Christmas festivities of just a couple of weeks ago already seem like ancient history. Still managing to... more

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