Jeff Abramson

1/ 🧵
shadowworldinvestigations.org/statement-in...
This letter, out today, has been endorsed by a number of experts listed by the Forum on the Arms Trade. The Forum itself does not take positions. Partial list of endorsers includes:

No. I'm not a fan of a Department of "War"
This charade of asking the people behind him if they agree is also repugnant... if they don't agree, Trump will just replace them.

As with nearly everything Trump does and I says, I find this repugnant. No, we don't need a department of "war"

Really delighted to connected to even more great experts via @forumarmstrade.bsky.social 👇

Judging by the notification number assigned to this (21-47), this likely has been held since 2021. Not surprising that the Trump administration would choose to move it forward. Human rights as we know them don't appear to be a real consideration for them.

Important thread of links, reactions and reporting collected by @forumarmstrade.bsky.social on the human rights reports issued today, which I believe are dangerously politicized and many steps backwards 👇

Really looking forward to working with and learning from the 2025-2026 Emerging Experts 👇
@forumarmstrade.bsky.social

Focus on the arms trade: state responsibility, accountability and private actor compliance | International Bar Association A webinar presented by the IBA War Crimes Committee and supported by the IBA Human Rights Law Committee, IBA Business Crime Committee, IBA Criminal Law Committee, IBA Anti-Corruption Committee, Asia P...

Video of IBA War Crimes Committee webinar last week on law and the arms trade now available, @ibanews.bsky.social featuring @saraedill.bsky.social @jeffabramson.bsky.social @sarahleah1.bsky.social Florence Foster, Tomas Hamilton, Daniel Moegstra and Eva Khair www.ibanet.org/conference-d...

We covered a good deal of ground at this webinar last week. Recommend checking it out! 👇

📣 We're getting close to 1000 followers.
Share this to encourage others to follow us and reach quadruple digits.
(And while you're doing that, make sure to sign up for our newsletter - The Week in Arms Trade Publications - at www.forumarmstrade.org/get-on-the-l...)

Meeks Announces Foreign Arms Sales Task Force

2/ the meeting was not public in the traditional sense, so there is no record. As a bit more about the composition of the Task Force, see democrats-foreignaffairs.house.gov/2025/3/meeks...

I was invited to speak with the House's Foreign Arms Sales Task Force yesterday, which is appreciated. Here were my opening comments in which I encouraged them to follow the law, take steps to improve arms trade transparency, and more drive.google.com/file/d/1wmMH...

While some countries in Europe are making a bad choice, great to see other countries standing up for the Mine Ban Treaty, incl/ accession by Tonga yesterday (and Marshall Islands ratification earlier this year bsky.app/profile/jeff... )
@minefreeworld.bsky.social
treaties.un.org/doc/Publicat...

🧵reactions of concern re: US bombing of Iran. Add reactions on to this.

Focus on the arms trade: state responsibility, accountability and private actor compliance | International Bar Association A webinar presented by the IBA War Crimes Committee and supported by the IBA Human Rights Law Committee, IBA Business Crime Committee, IBA Criminal Law Committee, IBA Anti-Corruption Committee, Asia P...

Registration is open for a timely @ibanews.bsky.social War Crimes Committee webinar: "Focus on the arms trade: state responsibility, accountability and private actor compliance," with @sarahleah1.bsky.social @jeffabramson.bsky.social, Tom Hamilton, & Florence Foster. www.ibanet.org/conference-d...

Nobel Laureates Back the Ban on Antipersonnel Landmines - ICBLCMC International Campaign to Ban Landmines - Cluster Munition Coalition - Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor

100+ Nobel Laureates, including 20 Peace Laureates, "deeply regret Lithuania’s withdrawal" from CCM. "We urge Lithuania as well as Estonia, Finland, Latvia, and Poland to reconsider their current moves to withdraw from the Mine Ban Treaty."
@minefreeworld.bsky.social icblcmc.org/our-impact/n...

See new appeal from former ministers of foreign affairs, Patrick Leahy, and leaders around the world calling on
"States to reaffirm their commitments, to urge those withdrawing to reconsider, and to prevent any further erosion..."
@minefreeworld.bsky.social @banclusterbombs.bsky.social

Write a message to protect lives from landmines! 💣 Landmines kill long after wars end. Canada helped ban them — now it must speak up again. Tell PM Carney: defend the global ban, protect kids, and stop these buried war crimes. ✍️ Add your voice now!

Time to get all countries on board to defend treaties on landmines (and cluster munitions, and more broadly on humanitarian disarmament) @minefreeworld.bsky.social
secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

Crucial reporting from @axios.com about Trump’s green light for Israel’s strikes, including how his recent actions and remarks may have been a purposeful ruse to help Israel maintain surprise.

from @armscontrolnow.bsky.social
www.armscontrol.org/pressroom/20...

Share this post to help us reach 1000 followers.

Support attention to arms trade, security assistance, and weapons use issues by following us.

We made a principled decision to leave Twitter. That's been tough because there is still more happening on our issues on that platform. Help change that.

Don’t let Europe bring back landmines Several EU countries want to abandon the global landmine ban—risking more civilian deaths. These brutal weapons don’t belong in Europe or anywhere. Sign the petition to protect the ban and save lives.

Already more than 50,000 signatures. Let's keep it going.
If we want a safer world, we must remain committed to ending the use of landmines. @minefreeworld.bsky.social #EndLandmines action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-05...

Another packed "The Week in Arms Trade Publications" newsletter with a look at Trump's first 100 days, latest @sipri.org data on military spending, humanitarian disarmament (inc/ landmines, and killer robots), and much more. Check it out and share: mailchi.mp/forumarmstra...

Assessing Trump's First 100 Days To mark the first 100 days in office, experts independently assess aspects of the Trump administration's policies.

@jeffabramson.bsky.social @cipolicy.bsky.social #100days "...the speed in which he has alienated traditional U.S. allies, undermined international processes... is placing the United States and the world on a path that is more heavily armed and less secure.” www.forumarmstrade.org/trump100days...

Withdrawing from Mine Ban Treaty Would Be a Self-Inflicted Strategic Defeat for European Security Withdrawing from Mine Ban Treaty Would Be a Self-Inflicted Strategic Defeat for European Security

Matthew Breay Bolton "European leaders must have the courage to build alternatives rooted in collective security, democracy and human rights. The Mine Ban Treaty is a crucial foundation stone of such an order." @inkstickmedia.com
attn: @minefreeworld.bsky.social
inkstickmedia.com/withdrawing-...

As a reminder, these human rights country reports were started in order to inform arms trade decisions. This administration continues to show it's disregard for human rights via these actions. There are, however, many many here in the US who do still care.

As a reminder, these human rights country reports were started in order to inform arms trade decisions. This administration continues to show it's disregard for human rights via these actions. There are, however, many many here in the US who do still care.

US Conventional Arms Transfer Policy Resources and expert assessment of US Conventional Arms Transfers (CAT) Policy

Via executive order yesterday, President Trump appears to reinstate his 2018 conventional arms transfer (CAT) policy.
See EO at www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... (section 3, item a1)
See our resource page on CAT policies, including Trump's NSPM-10 (from 2018)
www.forumarmstrade.org/catpolicy.html

Human Rights Council Concludes Fifty-Eighth Regular Session after Adopting 32 Resolutions Produced by the United Nations Information Service in Geneva for use of the information media; not an official record.English and French versions of our releases are different as they are the product ...

Ah, sorry, I take it back. Here's the information - resolution (A/HRC/58/L.21) on the Impact of anti-personnel mines on the full enjoyment of all human rights, adopted without a vote, www.ohchr.org/en/meeting-s...

Is there any more information available on this. Links to the resolution, vote, recording? I cannot find anything on the web thus far from the Human Rights Council. Thanks.