• Mar 29 2013
  • 3:08pm
Arms Trade Treaty blocked - this isn't failure, this is 'success deferred'.
Yet again in the final hours, the Arms Trade Treaty was blocked. This time because of a cynical move by Iran, Syria and North Korea.
  • Mar 28 2013
  • 2:42pm
Arms Trade Treaty history - twenty years in the making?
I'm in New York for final talks to agree the Arms Trade Treaty that I've been campaigning for for nearly twenty years.
  • Jul 27 2012
  • 2:01pm
Arms Trade Treaty: The final hours
Want to get straight to the loopholes? Skip ahead
  • Jul 11 2012
  • 12:40pm
Arms Trade Treaty: The battle for bullets (and tear gas, small arms, missiles…)
It's self-evident that to control the arms trade you have to actually control all the things that kill, maim and brutalise people, and capture all the ways that arms get into t...
  • Jul 4 2012
  • 4:08pm
Arms Trade Treaty talks get off to a strong (if delayed) start
After several false starts, the Arms Trade Treaty negotiations finally got underway yesterday.
  • Feb 17 2012
  • 3:58pm
Still everything to play for with an arms treaty
Amnesty's Olly Sprague talks about the Arms Treaty, from the UN Video It’s late on Thursday evening on day four of the Arms Trade Treaty preparatory conference.
  • Feb 15 2012
  • 4:11pm
Make love not loopholes
Amnesty's Olly Sprague talks about the Arms Treaty, from the UN Video Love was truly in the air today at the UN Arms Trade Treaty talks, being of course valentines day.
  • Feb 13 2012
  • 2:35pm
Any old Arms Trade Treaty not an option
Video So here I am, sitting in a cold New York, writing our first Blog on the eve of the start of the fifth and final Arms Trade Treaty preparatory negotiations, the culmination of nearl...

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I am the programme director for the Arms campaign. I work on everything from tanks to tasers, leading on policy, research and strategy for our work on arms control issues.