Category Archives: armas

• Results of Call for Paper Humanitarian Disarmament

  

  In this occasion we are proud of announcing the results of the call for paper “Conceptual and Practical Dimension of Humanitarian Disarmament” that carried out the SEHLAC network the last november 2014. The call for paper had a great impact and was a significant geographical representation, since the authors of the abstracts were from different parts of the world (Colombia, Spain, Argentina, Chile, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela and France). After passed the assessment stage, the results are the following: 1° Place   Autora:  Silene Theobald Title: “Keep failing and we´ll keep succeeding: a repeating history of humanitarian disarmament” DOWNLOAD HERE 2° Place   Autora: Deborah Tasselkraut Title: “¿Confiar en nuestros vecinos? El rol del Desminado Humanitario en la construcción de confianza en América del Sur.”  DOWNLOAD... Read more »

• A better use for steel

  

  Control Arms members gathered in Trinidad and Tobago to demonstrate that there’s a better use for steel than weapons and ammunition. Campaginers are in Port of Spain for the First Preparatory Meeting toward the First Conference of States (CSP) Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) taking place in Port of Spain from 23 – 24 February. Coalition members held signs stating “There is a better use for steel” against the backdrop of a performance from the Sapophonic Steel Band, a steel orchestra. The performance also served to reinforce the coalition’s call for effective implementation of the ATT and that this is a ‘#chance2change’ the arms trade. María Pía Devoto and Maria Eugenia Villareal both member of SEHLAC network... Read more »

• Austria Pledges to ban nuclear weapons

  

  After 44 states called for a prohibition on nuclear weapons at a conference in Vienna on the humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons, Austria delivered the “Austrian pledge” in which it committed to work to “fill the legal gap for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons” and pledged “to cooperate with all stakeholders to achieve this goal”. “All states committed to nuclear disarmament must join the Austrian pledge to work towards a treaty to ban nuclear weapons”, said Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). “Next year is the 70 year anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and that will be a fitting time for negotiations to start on a... Read more »