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Conference on Arms Trade Treaty meets in Geneva
August 25, 2016
The World Trade Organisation is hosting the second conference on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which came into force in 2014, laying out new rules governing the international arms market. Arms sales to the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen have largely dominated the conference, with the Control Arms coalition urging major weapons exporters to cut sales […]
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Rideau Institute Staff on Holiday!
August 12, 2016
We have amazing staff, interns and volunteers at the Rideau Institute and we could not get along without them. They help us in so many ways from research, to media scans, to blog drafting, to event preparation, to press conferences, to public outreach and of course to helping us with donor services. Just one recent […]
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Canadian diplomacy urgently needed for nuclear disarmament
July 28, 2016
The destructive power of nuclear weapons cannot be contained in space or time. They have the potential to destroy all civilisation and the entire ecosystem of the planet. (International Court of Justice, 1996) In the days before the 71st anniversary of the horrific Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic bombings , on August 6th and 9th respectively, […]
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Tony Blair: “the lies, deceits, duplicities and fudges”
July 21, 2016
Philippe Sands is professor of law at UCL and a barrister at Matrix Chambers. His review of the Report of the Iraq Inquiry by John Chilcot appears in the latest issue of the London Review of Books. See: A Grand and Disastrous Deceit (LRB, Vol. 38 No.15, 28 July 2016).* Professor Sands introduces the 12-volume, […]
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