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In June 2020, our Yemeni partner Alf Ba Civilization and Coexistence Foundation celebrated its 8th year in action. Below are exerts from statements by those working with Alf Ba who look back on how it all first started and the larger role of civil society.
27 July 2020
The ‘A-C-E Project on arms in Africa’ promotes multilateral dialogue and cooperation to prevent the illicit trade and diversion of arms and ammunition in Africa. This new A-C-E Project website is the dedicated channel for the project and its activities.
27 July 2020
As the UK Government restarts its Integrated Security, Defence and Foreign Policy Review, Lewis Brooks outlines four priorities for promoting peace and stability.
21 July 2020
We spoke to Flora, of the Organization for Nonviolence and Development, and Rabha, of Women Development Group, about how they’re responding to the rise in cases of gender-based violence amid COVID-19.
20 July 2020
Mistrust and scepticism of government efforts to fight COVID-19 have made it harder to contain the pandemic’s spread. Ilya Jones explores how the governments of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan can better respond to the virus and people’s concerns.
16 July 2020
Having worked with Chinese partners over the past 15 years, raising awareness of the Arms Trade Treaty initiative from the very beginning of the UN process, we welcome China’s decision to join the Treaty and reflects on what this means for Treaty compliance and universalisation.
15 July 2020
The UK has doubled-down on its long-held position as one of the main suppliers of fighter aircraft and bombs for Saudi Arabia’s catastrophic war in Yemen, declaring at the end of a review into its arms export processes that Saudi violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) are not systematic enough to merit restraint.
8 July 2020
In the first blog of our gendered implications of COVID-19 series, we spoke to the Somali Women Development Centre (SWDC) on the impacts of government restrictions on women and children in Somalia.
29 June 2020
Amidst war and instability, the spread of diseases and the increasing threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, we send a message of solidarity to our defiant partners in Yemen living and working in challenging conditions.
25 June 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect on Tajikistan, compounded by the slow response of the government as compared to some of its Central Asian neighbours. While the crisis has exposed some of the weaknesses of decision-making institutions in ensuring the safety and security of citizens, it has also reaffirmed the important role that civil society organisations play in addressing people’s basic needs.
22 June 2020