The International Peace Bureau (IPB) has launched a campaign for the reduction of military expenditure in order to make those amounts of money available for social and environmental projects, domestically or abroad. IPB believes religious organisations can play a crucial role in national debates. It is an ethical and political issue that would allow for greater justice and diminishing poverty. April 14^th is the Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS).

Read more … 1402 Disarmament for development

Please write a letter (click here for the model letter) to your Minister of Foreign Affairs asking him/her to introduce the necessary legislation to ratify the Arms Trade Treaty without delay in order to facilitate the regulation of sales of conventional weapons. 

Model letter to write to your Minister of Foreign Affairs . Please fill in what is underligned in yellow. 

List of countries that have signed and ratified the ATT on the 3rd July 2013

Click to see the Video "Please Choose Us, Not Dictators: on the ATT"

Read more … 1308 ASK YOUR GOVERNMENT TO RATIFY THE ARMS TRADE TREATY

Read more … 1302 ACT NOW ON THE ARMS TRADE TREATY (ATT)!!!

Actions in different countries during the Global Week of Action

Read more … Actions in different countries during the Global Week of Action

The Global Week of Action Against Gun Violence May 10-16 highlights the international campaign to stop the proliferation and misuse of small arms.
Each year activists around the world use the Global Week of Action to raise awareness, campaign for better gun laws and push for stronger regulation of the global arms trade.

Read more … 2010 Global Week of Action Against Gun Violence

1. Achieving an ethical and robust Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)
2. Disarm Domestic Violence
3. Other UN action (e.g. Programme of Action, Firearms Protocol)
1. Achieving an ethical and robust Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) around the UN Preparatory Committee meeting 12-24 July

Read more … Themes for the 2010 Global Week of Action

In December 2008, the EU adopted a legally bound Common Position on the control of arms exports, that included the “Respect for human rights in the country of final destination as well as respect by that country of international humanitarian law”, the “preservation of regional peace, security and stability” and the compatibility of the exports with the economic capacity of the recipient country, ensuring “the least diversion of human and economic resources for armaments”.

AEFJN together with other NGOs is asking the Spanish government to add  to the agenda of the Spainsh EU Presidency a “Progress report one year after reaching the Common Position on arms exports"

Letter to Spanish Presidency on arms exports (227.3 kB)

Read more … Letter to the Spanish Presidency