Seat or no seat, Australia has Security Council status
By this time tomorrow Australia could have a seat at the most powerful table at the United Nations.
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PM’s speech good for UN Security Council bid, but a clearer strategy still needed: Oxfam
International aid agency Oxfam Australia said Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s speech to the UN General Assembly in New York this morning has set out a strong case for Australia’s bid to secure a seat on the UN Security Council.
Australia should outline its UN Security Council strategy for protecting civilians: Oxfam
Oxfam Australia is calling on Prime Minister Julia Gillard to use her speech to the United Nations General Assembly tomorrow (Australian time) to outline her vision for Australia’s role on the UN Security Council.
Protection policy of a different sort
If elected to the UN Security Council, what should Australia bring to the table of the most powerful body in the UN?
Down but not out: Australia must play critical role in saving the Arms Trade Treaty
There is still hope for countries to reach agreement on an Arms Trade Treaty, despite governments failing to reach a consensus agreement in New York, Oxfam Australia said today.
Australia must act to prevent an Arms Trade Treaty ‘full of holes’
With the draft text of the Arms Trade Treaty being negotiated at the United Nations in New York released earlier this week, Australia is being urged not to concede to a compromise agreement that will do little to prevent transfers of arms to human rights abusers and repressive regimes.
Oxfam welcomes funding to reduce violence against women in Afghanistan
In the lead up to yesterday’s Tokyo conference on the future of Afghanistan, Oxfam, which currently works in 18 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces, has been raising concerns about whether enough will be done to protect women and girls as international forces withdraw from Afghanistan and political deals are negotiated with armed organisations like the Taliban.
Aid must work better for Afghans in the next decade
Development gains made in Afghanistan over the last decade are in danger of being thrown away if levels of aid fall away in conjunction with the withdrawal of international troops in 2014, Oxfam warned today.
Historic arms trade negotiations a chance to prevent future Syrian-style slaughter
Political leaders have a historic opportunity to place human rights and humanitarian aims above self-interest and profit when final negotiations to regulate the global arms trade begin today at the United Nations, campaigners from across the world said
Government urged to bring home bullet proof Arms Trade Treaty
With just days to go until Foreign Minister Bob Carr travels to New York for United Nations negotiations on legally-binding regulations for the international weapons trade, Australians have called on the Government to bring home a “bullet proof” Arms Trade Treaty.