Arms trade treaty needs churches to lobby together
Combined lobbying is seen as the best way to ensure human rights are not neglected in the treaty
Churches have a crucial role to play in the run-up to next year’s negotiations of a global treaty to regulate the conventional arms trade.
This was the conclusion of a World Council of Churches (WCC) panel in New York last month. WCC general secretary Olav Fykse Tveit said key human rights obligations must be embedded in the treaty and churches should lobby together, on the basis of faith.
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The issue of influence in Government is just what we need tackling now. There is a chink in the window while the Occupy LSX is continuing and questioning all the corrupt practises in high places.
All the churches should be acting together to clean up the Stygian stables.