Fighting for a world without weapons
Jan 12, 2020
4 minutes
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For her whole professional life, Mary Wareham has been preoccupied with weapons – or, more to the point, how to get rid of them.
Based in Washington, DC, the Wellingtonian is the advocacy director of the arms division for Human Rights Watch (HRW). She joined the US-based humanitarian organisation in 1998 and, apart from a two-year stint with Oxfam NZ from 2006-08, has been there since, directing her attention in particular at weapons that do not discriminate between civilians and combatants.
It is a calling that gave her early and extraordinary success.
She tells the story of the time she was approached by a
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