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Arms Trade Treaty

  • UK Arms Dealer Sentenced for Smuggling
    Arms Control Today
    December 4, 2012

    A British arms dealer was sentenced to jail Oct. 26 for arms smuggling and tax fraud, the United Kingdom’s tax agency said in a press statement.
  • New ATT Plan Advances
    Arms Control Today
    November 2, 2012

    Three months after a July UN diplomatic conference failed to reach consensus on a new treaty to regulate the conventional arms trade, a group of key states has offered a new proposal for a follow-up conference to be held in early 2013.
  • Raising the Bar for Negotiations on an ATT
    Arms Control Today
    August 30, 2012

    As delegates filed away from the United Nations on the evening of July 27 at the end of the conference that had sought to conclude negotiations on an arms trade treaty (ATT), there was a palpable sense of disappointment among diplomats and civil society participants that we had fallen at the last hurdle and failed to adopt an ATT. In a cruel irony, the magnificent opening ceremony of the London Olympics was being broadcast in the UN as the hours ticked down on our conference. Our marathon gathering was over, as others were about to begin theirs.
  • The ATT Talks: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back?
    Arms Control Today
    August 30, 2012

    On July 27, after four weeks of negotiations, the diplomatic conference to negotiate an arms trade treaty (ATT) closed without accomplishing its goal of adopting a treaty. After the president of the conference, Roberto García Moritán of Argentina, submitted his revised final draft treaty on July 26, hopes and expectations rose among delegations and civil society that a successful outcome of the six-year process to achieve an ATT would be possible.
  • African States and the ATT Negotiations
    Arms Control Today
    August 30, 2012

    Africa is arguably the continent that has experienced the most destructive consequences of the largely unregulated global arms trade.
  • Bid to Craft Arms Trade Treaty Stalls
    Arms Control Today
    August 30, 2012

    A month-long UN diplomatic conference to negotiate the first-ever treaty to regulate the international arms trade failed to reach consensus on a final document by its July 27 deadline as a handful of key countries, including the United States, said they needed additional time to resolve their concerns with the proposed draft of the pact.
  • Next Steps for the Arms Trade Treaty
    Arms Control Today
    August 28, 2012

    The United States has relatively robust regulations governing international transfers of conventional arms and ammunition, but many other countries have weak or ineffective laws and policies, if they have any at all. In the absence of common international standards and national export controls, arms suppliers and brokers exploit the gaps for profit, allowing arms and ammunition to flow to unscrupulous regimes, criminals, illegal militias, and terrorist groups.
  • United States, Others Miss Chance on Global Arms Trade Treaty
    Press Room
    July 27, 2012

    (United Nations, New York) Nearly a year after the start of a UN process to negotiate a new global arms trade treaty, 192 states came close to agreement on a treaty to require better regulation of the global nuclear arms trade and to set common-sense standards for arms transfers.
  • New Arms Trade Treaty Within Reach
    Press Room
    July 27, 2012

    (United Nations, New York) Nearly a year after the UN launched a process to negotiate a new global arms trade treaty, states are coalescing around a final treaty text.
  • Letter Calls on Obama to Close Loopholes and Support Arms Trade Treaty
    Press Room
    July 26, 2012

    (Washington and New York) Major U.S. humanitarian and arms control organizations, including Amnesty International USA, Oxfam America, Arms Control Association, and United to Prevent Genocide, are pressing President Barack Obama to work with other countries close the remaining loopholes in text of the Arms Trade Treaty now under negotiation.