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Welcome to ConflictVoice. We are a group of independent bloggers and campaigners who focus on issues around the impact of conflict on the world's poorest people.Catch up with great posts, pictures and videos- read about what happened during the Arms Trade Treaty negotiations in the UN in October 2009. We had ConflictVoice bloggers at the UN and across the globe highlighting what happened.
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In addition to regular scoops and stories from inside U.N. headquarters, Turtle Bay will start offering a daily roundup of shorter news items reported both here and elsewhere.
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Today was a numbingly awful day here in Pakistan. This morning, six humanitarian workers from World Vision were killed in a brutal attack on their field office in an area called Mansehra….
This is the first in a multi-part series looking at the subject of foreign aid reform, offering some specific recommendations as the U.S. Congress prepares to debate the subject in the…
KINSHASA — The Democratic Republic of Congo is to launch on Tuesday a “firearm for 50 dollars” disarmament campaign in the vast country’s volatile eastern region, a minister said Monday.
Communication Minister Lambert Mende told AFP the government counted on collecting “20,000 to 30,000 guns at first” but did not say how long the operation, financed by President Joseph Kabila, was intended to last.
Colombia’s 4 million guns aid and exacerbate the violence that women and girls face in society and at home. Rebecca Gerome, in cooperation with the Advocacy Project and IANSA Women’s Network, documents the devastating impact.
Raymond C. Offenheiser, Oxfam America’s president, recounts his impressions of the ravaged Haitian capital after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the city leaving 230,000 people dead and…
HAITI: U.S. Acts Quickly on Debt Relief Ahead of Preval Visit
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Mar 8, 2010 (IPS) - With U.S. President Barack Obama preparing to host Haitian…
