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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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By all accounts, director James Cameron is poised to win big at tonight’s 82nd annual Academy Awards for his truly remarkable blockbuster film, Avatar. The film is nominated for nine…
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The joint statement of Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the UK and President Jacob Zuma of South Africa after their recent meeting included the following:
“The ultimate goal of a world free of nuclear weapons requires cooperation on a number of important international initiatives. The UK and South Africa therefore look forward to President Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit next month and progress in the international treaty framework to stop nuclear proliferation, control the number of nuclear weapons and approve a new international conventional arms trade treaty through the UN. There was recognition that Iran remained in breach of five UN Security Council Resolutions on its nuclear programme and, that in order to pursue a legitimate nuclear energy policy, it should engage positively with the international community and the IAEA.”
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The head of UN peacekeeping Alain Le Roy announced two days ago after meeting with President Kabila that they would begin drawing down the UN…
Israel’s arms trade with India stands to expand dramatically following New Delhi’s decision to increase its defense budget to $32 billion.
“India plans to rebuild substantial parts of its armed forces and we will be there, offering everything they need,” a source within the Israeli Military Industries said.
Foreign investors are pouring billions of dollars into large extractive projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo, writes Peter Bosshard, but in ‘a classic case of the resource curse’, the projects ‘are not promoting the country’s long-term development’, but attracting ‘short-term profiteers, conflict, and corruption’. The World Bank’s rehabilitation of the Inga 1 and 2 hydropower dams are the latest example of this trend.
