About Thomas Nash

Thomas Nash is Director of Article 36, a UK-based NGO set up in 2011 to monitor and challenge the use of certain weapons technologies. He served as founding Coordinator of the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC), acting as strategist and spokesperson of the global campaign that resulted in the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions. He worked previously for the NZ and Canadian Foreign Ministries.

Articles by Thomas Nash

Restarting disarmament

On ‘domestic’ issues such as the introduction of new medical technologies or pharmaceuticals governments will often be concerned about inadvertent harms to their own citizens, but with weapons the victims are generally expected to be elsewhere, in other countries and other parts of the world. Civil society coalitions can try to represent those interests

This week's guest editors

openGlobalRights editors

Our guest editors James Ron, Leslie Vinjamuri, Sophie Arie and Archana Pandya introduce this week's theme of:

Emerging powers and human rights.

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