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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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Another way to ask the question posed in the headline is: does it really matter if women or men make and maintain peace? According to a growing consensus among experts in the fields, it does,…
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.
Françoise Mukuku - Last month I was in Ruzizi plain, in South Kivu, DRC in one of the villages where thousands of displaced people are trying to survive far from their houses, their farms and for many of them, far from the only place they will ever call home.
Naomi Daniela is 45 years old and lives in Eastern Congo:
“One night those men came and grabbed my husband from our house. I tried to stop them. They pushed me away then one of them stabbed me in my shoulder”
Watch Naomi’s story and take action NOW to help stop the killing in Africa’s forgotten war www.oxfam.org/drc
Human Rights Watch report on conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “Most victims women, children & elderly. Some were decapitated, others chopped to death” Act now: sign the petition
ConflictVoice blogger Jen Nedeau on the outcome of the last few weeks talks at the UN on the Arms Trade Treaty
Yesterday, at the ConflictVoice and Oxfam sponsored event at the UN, Oxfam released a new report titled, “Dying for Action - decision time for an effective Arms Trade Treaty.” An…
Today was my second day at the United Nations learning about the development of the Arms Trade Treaty, which is still in its early stages before being presented as a UN resolution in…
Today I got to sit through the United Nations General Assembly conference on disarmament thanks to Oxfam International’s Conflict Voice initiative.
While many of the delegates…
This week, the UN General Assembly begins negotiations on the Arms Trade Treaty, and ConflictVoice, headed by Oxfam, has invited me and a slew of bloggers to share our thoughts. Arms trade…
No I’m not talking about Peter Andre’s latest musical offering - today I am inside the United Nations headquarters in New York City. It’s big, it’s secure and I’m still waiting for someone to me…
So this slackvitist has rocked off her chair, donned her bright red bata moccasins and made the trek across seven time zones to New York to participate in a series of events around the Arms Trade…
