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Add your voice to the medical alert for a strong arms trade treaty

Written 07/02/2012

The Medical Alert for a strong Arms Trade Treaty is a campaign by IPPNWⁱ (International Physicians for the Prevention of War) to save lives and promote health through influencing the current UN negotiations on a global arms treaty. Please help by adding your signature and sending the link to colleagues in hospitals, universities etc.

Loopholes in Cluster Munitions Bill undermine legislation: Media Release, Cluster Munitions Association (Australia), November 2011

Written 23/11/2011

Media release from Cluster Munitions Association (Australia) responding to reports that ALP Parliamentary Caucus has voted not to amend draft legislation to ratify the global treaty banning cluster bombs.

2011-11-22_CMCA_ALP caucus vote.pdf

Cluster bomb loopholes disregard purpose of global treaty

Written 23/11/2011

ALP Caucus votes to stick by US military and remain soft on cluster bomb ban: Cluster Munitions Coalition

22 NOVEMBER 2011: ALP caucus yesterday voted NOT to amend its widely criticised Cluster Munitions Prohibition bill to remove two loopholes that defy the whole intention of the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

US military presence, cluster bombs, and uranium sales: MAPW members speak out

Written 17/11/2011

Updated 23 November: President Obama's Australian visit has sparked announcements of an expanded US military presence in Australia -raising the possibility of storage of banned cluster bombs - while the PM has made clear her intention to change policy on uranium sales to India. Our members have spoken on radio, and once again written numerous letters to the media.

Send a Sock to Stephen: MAPW supports cluster bombs campaign

Written 15/11/2011

MAPW has joined organisations around Australia to send socks to Defence Minister Stephen Smith as a sad reminder of the human costs of cluster bombs.

Draft legislation before the Government would seriously weaken the important international treaty which bans cluster munitions.

Cluster bomb legislation: "Sock" flyer, November 2011

Written 15/11/2011

A flyer designed by a coalition of peace groups including MAPW, active against the use of cluster bombs. The flyer is to be sent to Stephen Smith, Minister for Defence, protesting against proposed legislation on cluster bombs, which could see Australia supporting US use of cluster bombs and the stockpiling of such weapons within Australia.

2011-11-15_shoe-mailout.pdf

Agent Orange Justice

Link Added 15/11/2011

Agent Orange Justice is the Australian arm of an international campaign whose objective is to force the United States government and US chemical companies take responsibility for the ongoing problems caused by the use of chemical weapons, includin dioxin, in Vietnam between 1961 and 1971.

March of the drones

Event Date:

Thu, 17/11/2011 - 16:00 - 18:00

Location:

Sydney

March against the war in Afghanistan, planned to coincide with the visit to Australia of US President Barack Obama.

The accidental teacher: a true story from Laos

Written 18/10/2011

This is a story sent to us by someone working with students in Laos.It shows the suffering of those who live their day to day lives in close contact with unexploded ordinance. We have omitted the name of the author in order to avoid him/her getting into any trouble with the authorities.

The Teacher Without a School.pdf

Flyer: MAPW Victorian dinner with John Rodsted - October 2011

Written 04/10/2011

MAPW Victorian Branch holds a dinner for members and supporters on the second Tuesday of every second month. Our 11 October 2011 guest speaker is photographer and anti-cluster-bombs campaigner John Rodsted, whose experience as a war photographer led him to take up the issue of cluster munitions. (Black and white A4 flyer)

11 October dinner_John Rodsted flyer.pdf