About
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.
Now the UN has started work on the Arms Trade Treaty find out what it should contain. Watch our slideshow:
En Francais
More resources - reports, videos, more information in our resource bank
Following
MARSABIT, 18 December 2009 (IRIN) - Cattle raids, inter-communal resource conflicts and banditry are common across much of the arid lands of northern Kenya, where firearms are increasingly common among pastoralist communities. In 2009 alone, such violence claimed more than 354 lives, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Kenya.
