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  • 29 Mar 2013
    Syria and the rapid descent into bloodshed

    We have recently passed the two-year anniversary of the Syrian uprising. What started as a series of peaceful demonstrations against a vicious dictatorship has been turned into a bloody war of Scud missiles and cluster bombs by the Assad regime against their opponents.

  • 17 Dec 2012
    President Obama under increasing pressure over gun control

    Grassroots civic and faith groups, relatives of victims, and activists are joining mayors and other politicians to press US President Obama for effective gun controls.

  • 1 Oct 2009
    Transforming guns into tools of hope

    Seventeen years after the war ended in Mozambique, churches are still collecting and destroying weapons and cleaning up areas of unexploded ordnance so the land can be farmed, says Juan Michel. It shows how hope can be built out of destruction.

  • 7 Jul 2009
    Obama and Medvedev agree major cut to nuclear warheads

    There has been a widespread welcome for the announcement by the US and Russian Presidents that they have reached a new agreement over a reduction in nuclear weapons.

  • 6 Jul 2009
    Hopes grow for arms reduction as Obama flies to Moscow

    As the US President Barack Obama arrived in Moscow this morning, there were predictions of a significant agreement between the Russian and US governments over a reduction in nuclear warheads.

  • 3 Jul 2009
    Campaigners highlight 'public revulsion' against arms industry

    The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has pointed to nationwide protests against the arms industry as evidence of “public revulsion". Such feelings are expected to increase ahead of the London arms fair in September.

  • 27 Mar 2009
    Charity Commission to investigate UK links to arms haul

    The Charity Commission, which has the responsible for overseeing charities in Britain, has launched a formal inquiry into alleged UK links to an arms haul in Bangladesh.

  • 1 Nov 2007
    Choosing between human rights and oil

    It is wrong that "rules of law, human affairs and democracy are cast aside to worship a barrel of oil" said Mark Thomas in protesting about the Saudi state visit to the UK.