Congratulations! After ten very long years of campaigning, passion and unbelievable determination from Oxfam supporters in the UK, yesterday the world voted overwhelmingly for an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) to regulate the global arms trade for the first time. I sat at the back of the UN General Assembly Hall, watching the electronic voting board start to light up and, seconds later, the result flashed up for everyone to see: 154 'yes' votes...

I'm in New York, helping co-ordinate our plans with Control Arms Coalition colleagues, on the eve of the UN General Assembly First Committee (which deals with disarmament). Two months have passed since the end of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) conference, where world governments came so close to agreeing a treaty that would regulate the global arms trade, and it is time to renew pressure to push for the work to be completed. 2,000 people...

by Lisa Rutherford, Oxfam UK Campaigns Manager, in New York ...

For two years I was a dad. Then a man pulled out an illegal gun and started firing. ...

by Lisa Rutherford, UK Campaigns Manager, Oxfam GB in New York City ...

See Banky's original image Pictures released as negotiations for a new Arms Trade Treaty unfold in New York Iconic artwork by graffiti artist Banksy has come to life to support an Oxfam campaign to regulate the weapons trade which kills one person every minute. News photographer Nick Stern, who has seen first-hand the devastating effect of armed violence, has recreated two of the artists' famous works using...

Yesterday, Oxfam and Amnesty International UK drove a tank around central London, startling passers-by and even getting stopped by the police for a documentation check. Just days away from the start of the United Nations Diplomatic Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty in New York, (2-27 July) the tank journey in London was part of a global day of action for the Control Arms campaign. Thousands of campaigners from around the world...

David Grimason has today announced he will take his campaign for a strong Arms Trade Treaty to the United Nations during the final talks in New York. Mr Grimason's son Alistair was two-years-old when he was shot dead during a holiday to Turkey in 2003 and he has campaigned for tougher laws on arms ever since. Alistair was asleep in his pram in a cafe when an argument broke out at a nearby table and a man opened fire - killing...

More than one person dies every minute from armed violence. An Arms Trade Treaty would control the shamefully unregulated small weapons trade, but only if it's as robust as possible. Students and Leeds residents have been campaigning at their MPs to get David Cameron to show stronger support for arms regulation. Recently they held a flashmob at Leeds University Union to highlight this hugely important issue. It was 'eye-catching'...