Resources

International Peace Day: Resistance, hope and action

Saferworld's CEO Susana Klien reflects on International Peace Day

Conflict, illicit arms and the Arms Trade Treaty in East Africa

The UK Strategic Defence Review: A risky rearmament plan

Lewis Brooks and Charlie Linney examine the UK’s recent Strategic Defence Review and argue that the SDR risks undermining global peace and security through its militarised narrative, narrow scope, and short-term thinking.

Words are not enough – action is needed now to stop Israel’s siege of Gaza

Israel’s allies are finally speaking up against the intolerable suffering Israel is inflicting on the people of Gaza. But strong statements are not enough. It is beyond time for states to end military and security cooperation with Israel and take concrete measures to inhibit Israel’s capacity to commit crimes against the populations of Gaza and the West Bank.

World leaders must act to end Israel’s unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory

Thirty civil society organisations, including Saferworld, call for global leaders to uphold the International Court of Justice's findings that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful.

Israel’s renewed assault on the population of Gaza reinforces the urgent need to impose a comprehensive arms embargo

The Israeli government’s decision to shatter the fragile ceasefire in Gaza with a night of massive bombardment on Monday 17 March, killing an estimated 400 Palestinians – many of them women and children – is a renewal of Israel’s strategy of collective punishment of the Palestinian population. It follows Israel’s decision at the beginning of March to impose a total cutoff of humanitarian aid entering the territory and to cut off electricity lines on 9 March, putting the remaining water supply in danger.

Over 230 global organisations demand governments producing F-35 jets stop arming Israel

The Gambia Arms Trade Treaty national assessment report

Warpod: Ten years of the Arms Trade Treaty

As we mark ten years since the Arms Trade Treaty entered into force, Roy Isbister and Elizabeth Kirkham from Saferworld’s Arms Unit tell us about their experience of working on the global treaty to regulate the international arms trade.