Antigua: Two Advocacy Project (AP) partners working on arms control issues will meet with United Nations (UN) disarmament officials at a summit in Antigua later this week.

The Women’s Institute for Alternative Development (WINAD) and the International Network on Small Arms (IANSA) helped to organize the meeting, which will focus on the Arms Trade Treaty and the relationship between the arms trade and sustainable development. The meeting comes in advance of a UN General Assembly meeting to decide the next steps for the treaty in October.

Earlier this month, IANSA members held a week of action in support of the ATT.

IANSA, a global network of civil society groups working against gun violence, is a strategic partner of AP. WINAD, a women’s rights group from Trinidad and Tobago, is one of AP’s community-based partners, and is a member of IANSA’s Women’s Network.

News about the summit was reported by the Antigua Sun. Read the full article.