Resources tagged 'Arms Trade Treaty'

Two major United Nations treaties govern illicit arms trade and trafficking since the early twenty-first century. The Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition (generally known as the Firearms Protocol (FP)), adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in May 2001, supplementing its parent instrument, the […]

Common international standards in the ATT should require States to establish and maintain effective national regulatory mechanisms. The ATT should also require States to licence or otherwise authorise exports and other international transfers of conventional weaponry, munitions and related equipment (“conventional arms”) in conformity with an agreed list of clear criteria that take into account […]

This document outlines recommendations that would strengthen areas of the Arms Trade  Treaty that have the potential to control and reduce the proliferation of small arms and light weapons and related ammunition. The inclusion of these recommendation is vital if the Arms Trade Treaty is to be effective in saving lives and reducing serious injury […]

This briefing paper argues that global standards for the international import, export and transfer of conventional arms and ammunition should prohibit transfers where there is a significant risk that the transfer will be in used to violate women’s human rights or perpetuate a pattern of gender-based violence. It argues that international law demands linking the […]