Tag: Arms Trade Treaty
Time to get serious about the Arms Trade Treaty
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by Ben Murphy, Humanitarian Advocacy Officer, Oxfam Australia. Ben will be blogging and tweeting (@Ben_Murphy83) from insude the UN Arms Trade Treaty conference all next week. Once again, I’m joining a group of campaigners from around the world for a one-week session of the negotiations towards an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) at the UN in […] Read more »
How illicit arms brokers can slip through gaps
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Oxfam International has produced a new report, Brokers without Borders: How illicit arms brokers can slip through gaps in the Pacific and international arms control system to examine the problem of illicit arms brokering. Read more »
The Pacific’s loud voice at the UN Arms Trade Treaty negotiations
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Whilst the Pacific has escaped the ‘AK-47’ plague that has caused suffering and disaster in other parts of the world, the region has certainly not been free from the scourge of gun violence and conflict. Read more »
Day 2 of the Arms Trade Treaty talks
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Summary of Day 2 of the Arms Trade Treaty talks in New York Read more »
Day 1: negotiating an Arms Trade Treaty
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Overview of Day 1 of the Preparatory Committee for Negotiating an Arms Trade Treaty in New York Read more »
Bulletproof arms trade treaty needed to stop abuses
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For too long, a largely unregulated arms trade has thrived on non-transparency and legal loopholes. This has created situations where corruption, impunity, diversion/theft, and unaccountability are able to run rife in many parts of the world. Read more »
