Full Coverage: Arms & military

28.06.2006 The South Eastern and Eastern Europe Clearinghouse for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SEESAC) will organize Consultation Conference on Education and Small Arms tomorrow, Thursday, June 29, at the Metropol Hotel in Belgrade, from 09:00 – 16:00 hours.

26.06.2006 As football fans enjoy the world cup, the Control Arms campaign is getting ready to kick off a whole series of events at the crucial UN Conference on Small Arms, which starts today. Visit The Stadium and score one for the campaign.

23.06.2006 International organisations expect India to play a lead role in the global control of small arms because the country has been a major victim of the illegal trade in foreign-made sophisticated arms. They want that India should be able to push for a consensus at a UN conference on small arms that begins on June 26.

22.06.2006 The chairman of an upcoming United Nations-organized conference looking into ways of curbing the illegal trade in small arms said that stepped-up action is needed to tackle the global scourge and follow-up on a Programme of Action endorsed by all Member States in 2001.

20.06.2006 In early June U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick had the nerve to speak publicly against “interventionism” in Latin America at a meeting of the Organization of American States in the Dominican Republic. Ironically, a few days later the U.S. Congress voted to continue supporting military intervention in Latin America...

13.06.2006 NEW YORK, June 12 (OneWorld) - Furious at the Bush administration's callous response to the deaths of three Guantanamo Bay prisoners, rights advocacy groups in the West are calling for immediate and independent investigations into the incident.

12.06.2006 Peace in the Middle East requires bridges not walls, says War on Want. It’s campaign on the Occupied Palestinian Territories focuses on the devastating effects of the illegal Separation Wall built by Israel. Take action.
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08.06.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, June 8 (OneWorld) - U.S. military and economic might in South Korea are being called into question this week as villagers launched a hunger strike to protest a U.S. military base expansion that would force them from their lands and farmers' unions demonstrated in Seoul against a proposed free trade agreement.

03.06.2006 LOS ANGELES, June 2 (OneWorld) - The number of allegations of U.S. troops deliberately killing Iraqi civilians continues to pile up.

02.06.2006 UNITED NATIONS, June 2 (OneWorld) - Though appreciative of what Hans Blix has recommended in a new report on the threats of weapons of mass destruction, some key disarmament advocacy groups say they are disappointed with the former UN chief weapons inspector's suggestion that the risk of nuclear proliferation could be minimized by controlling uranium and plutonium production.