July, 2001
ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention Comes into Force
July 12, 2001 ·
The ILO Convention on the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour came into force November 19 with nearly 25% of the organisation’s 175 members participating as formal signatories.
Read More...When will UK bite the bullet on gun traffic?
July 11, 2001 ·
Britain’s role as one of the world’s largest weapons exporters places a special responsibility on the government to take the lead in pressing for tough controls on trade in small arms, campaigners say. Britain is particularly well placed to take on the task, they argue, since it is now a relatively insignificant producer of small arms yet home to many dealers and traffickers.
Read More...Misery of children enslaved by the gun
July 10, 2001 ·
Sarah Ayero had never seen a gun before one was put to her head. Three days later, she was learning to dismantle an AK-47 and to kill people at close range. She was 12 years old. The untold quantities of small arms swilling around northern Uganda and its borders make Sarah and thousands of children like her a hugely valuable commodity.
Read More...Misery of children enslaved by the gun
July 10, 2001 · , www.guardian.co.uk/armstrade/story/0,10674,519656,00.html
Published in Guardian Unlimited Reports (www.guardian.co.uk/armstrade/story/0,10674,519656,00.html) (July 10, 2001) Sarah Ayero had never seen a gun before one was put to her head. Three days later, she was learning to dismantle an AK-47 and to kill people at close range. She was 12 years old. The untold quantities of small arms swilling around northern Uganda […]
Read More...Gunrunner
July 9, 2001 ·
Leonid Minin was celebrating in room 341 of the Hotel Europa he owned in Cinisello Balsamo outside Milan. There was plenty to toast that balmy Saturday night last August. There was the fact that there were four prostitutes and 20 grammes of cocaine to get the party off with a bang. And there was the fact that the millionaire gunrunner had just delivered 113 tonnes of small arms to west Africa from his native Ukraine.
Read More...The International Dealers in Death
July 9, 2001 ·
The world is awash with guns – at least 550 million of them. An endless cheap supply of small arms has spawned an epidemic of killing. In a three-part series, Guardian writers hunt down the dealers, talk to the victims and ask what can be done to stop the trade. Today: The gunrunner
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