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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.
Now the UN has started work on the Arms Trade Treaty find out what it should contain. Watch our slideshow:
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HAJJAH, 22 March 2010 (IRIN) - Up to 30,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in two camps in northern Yemen are set to benefit from a new water project funded by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and implemented by Oxfam.
Inaugurated on 19 March to mark World Water Day, the project involves 26 tankers, four reservoirs and a network of pipes in Mazraq camps one and three in Haradh District, Hajjah Governorate.
LISTEN to The Takeaway interviews of Oxfam and IRC staff on the need for jobs in Haiti.
The U.S. government has finally reached momentum for reforming U.S. foreign aid with two acts and two sweeping agency reviews coming before Congress in the next months. But which way is…
In 2007, Oxfam reported that some 7 million Afghan children — more than half of the country’s young people — do not go to school. In the same report, titled “Free, Quality Education…
New research from Oxfam shows ordinary Afghans blame government weakness and corruption as the second most important factor behind the fighting, with the Taliban coming third, followed by interference by neighboring countries.
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.
The Lancet Student coverage of the launch of Oxfam’s report Dying for Action
NGOs welcome US support but warn that proposal to give any Member State veto power would weaken not strengthen future Treaty
Today’s announcement by the US government of its support for beginning…
Press release: As UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband meets US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday Oxfam and Amnesty are calling for the UK to reject plans by the USA to give every state a veto over the Arms Trade Treaty
Those who have least say in the Arms Trade Treaty processes are some of those who suffer the most from the effects of armed violence says Steph Cousins of Oxfam Australia
Since 2006 when the UN started discussing the Arms Trade Treaty 2.1 million people have died from armed violence - watch our film and pass it on. #ArmsTreaty
