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Briefing paper

Stay on Target: Will the UK fight the battle for tough arms controls?

25/04/2012

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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July 2012 sees the greatest opportunity ever to regulate the global arms trade, as states gather in New York to negotiate an international Arms Trade Treaty. The UK has been crucial in making this happen. Since 2004, it has championed a Treaty that will have a genuine impact on humanitarian and human rights. A strong […]

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Briefing paper

Crises in a New World Order: Challenging the humanitarian project

07/02/2012

8 documents

32 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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In 2010, vast humanitarian crises from Haiti to Pakistan almost overwhelmed the international system’s ability to respond. Despite years of reform, UN agencies, donors, and international NGOs (INGOs) struggled to cope. In 2011, Somalia yet again saw a response too little and too late, driven by media attention, not a timely, impartial assessment of human […]

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Briefing note

Dying for Action: Decision time for an urgent, effective Arms Trade Treaty

07/10/2009

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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On 6 December 2006, the UN General Assembly first voted to work ‘towards an Arms Trade Treaty’ to protect civilians worldwide from irresponsible arms transfers. For almost three years, governments have discussed what the treaty might look like. And in that time almost 2.1 million men, women, and children have died as a result of […]

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Briefing paper

A Fair Foreign Policy: Can the UK do more to protect civilians around the world?

11/04/2007

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

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The UK’s foreign policy does not matter for the UK only. It matters for millions of poor and vulnerable people caught up in the conflicts where Oxfam works around the world. In diplomacy, as well as development, the UK can have a real impact on men, women, and children struggling to survive in the world’s […]

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Briefing paper

Arms Without Borders: Why a globalised trade needs global control

01/10/2006

5 documents

46 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Globalisation has changed the arms trade. Arms companies, operating from an increasing number of locations, now source components from across the world. Their products are often assembled in countries with lax controls on where they end up. Too easily, weapons get into the wrong hands. Each year, at least a third of a million people […]

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Briefing note

The View from the Summit: Gleneagles G8 one year on

09/06/2006

4 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Japanese

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On 31 March 2006 the Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa announced that from that day on basic health care would be free to everyone. This was made possible partly due to the money saved following the cancellation of Zambia’s $5 billion debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). A visit to the clinic for basic medicines, […]

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Journal article

For better? For worse? Humanitarian aid in conflict

01/11/1997

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Humanitarian aid should be judged against international humanitarian law (IHL) which gives civilians certain rights, including protection in armed conflicts. Aid agencies should consider the various side-effects of their interventions in order to assess the net impact, and decide whether to work in any given situation. They have no responsibility to provide aid where the […]

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Book

A Safer Future: Reducing the human cost of war

01/01/1997

1 documents

128 pages long

Languages: English

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A Safer Future draws on Oxfam’s experience of working with communities caught up in armed conflict in many countries around the world and makes recommendations for urgent action by governments that would reduce the risk of war and protect civilian lives. It looks specifically at changes in international policies and pre-emptive action by the international […]

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