United Kingdom
As a major arms exporter and international donor, the UK can play a key role in preventing conflict worldwide.
Saferworld aims to influence the UK Government to ensure that its arms exports do not fuel conflict or human rights abuses and that its development programmes encourage conflict prevention and effective security provision.
What we do
We make policy recommendations to key Government departments and work with the media, partner organisations and MPs from all political parties to promote policy change and hold the Government to account.
The UK is also a major actor within the EU and UN. So, by successfully influencing the UK, we can hope to promote broader international change as well.
Read our report which looks at the UK Government's policy and practice on arms exports over the last ten years.
Download 'The Good, the bad and the ugly: a decade of Labour's arms exports'
Reports and briefings
The Paris Declaration, violent conflict and aid effectiveness, February 2008
Tackling the availability and misuse of small arms in Africa, December 2007
Submission to the Quadripartite Select Committee for use in the Ministry of Defence Evidence Session, December 2007
2007 Review of the UK Export Control Act, September 2007
Towards an International Arms Trade Treaty, September 2007
Human Rights Annual Report 2006, October 2007
Prospects for sustainable peace in Uganda, July 2007
The Review of the Export Control Act (2002), June 2007
Submission to the UK Department for International Development (DFID) conflict policy paper, October 2006
Find out more
Read about our work on strengthening UK arms exports policy and practice.
Read more about our advocacy work on the EU and UN pages.
We also conduct UK advocacy work on conflict issues as part of the Peace and Security Liaison Network
Contact
Tom Donnelly
UK Advocacy and Policy Officer
News
- Supporting security in Bangladesh
- Saferworld works with the police and local communities in Bangladesh to improve safety and security.
- Saferworld annual review
- In November Saferworld published its annual review
- Actvities October 2008
- Download Saferworld's activity report for October.
- UN First Committee vote on the Arms Trade Treaty
- The UN General Assembly's First Committee on Disarmament and International Security votes to work towards an Arms Trade Treaty
- An open letter to international donors in Georgia
- Saferworld and other NGOs send an open letter to the international Donors' Conference on Georgia being held in Brussels on 22nd October.