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Conventional Arms Control

  • 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.
  • Arms Treaty Text Emerges from UN Talks
    Press Room
    July 24, 2012

    (Washington, D.C.) Today, the first consolidated draft text of a global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) emerged from arduous negotiations at the United Nations. Governments have just three days to narrow any remaining differences before the conference concludes on July 27.
  • The Arms Trade Treaty and the NRA's Misleading Rhetoric
    Issue Briefs
    July 11, 2012

    The ongoing conflict in Syria-like recent wars in Burma, Congo, Liberia, Sudan, and Sierra Leone-underscores the urgent need for common standards for international transfers of conventional weapons and ammunition, as well as legally-binding requirements for all states to review exports and imports--particularly for arms transfers that could lead to human rights abuses or violate international arms embargoes.
  • Op-ed: Time to Curb the Illicit Global Arms Trade
    Press Room
    July 9, 2012

    The following piece was originally published in The Christian Science Monitor on July 9, 2012

    Each year, hundreds of thousands of civilians around the globe are slaughtered by conventional weapons that are sold, transferred by governments, or diverted to unscrupulous regimes, criminals, illegal militias, and terrorist groups. The enormous human toll from the unregulated trade of conventional arms undermines international security and impedes economic and social development.
  • Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations Begin July 2
    Issue Briefs
    June 28, 2012

    Volume 3, Issue 9, June 30, 2012

    Thousands of civilians around the globe are slaughtered each year by weapons that are sold, transferred by governments or diverted to unscrupulous regimes, criminals, illegal militias, and terrorist groups.
  • Exposing the Arms Trade
    Arms Control Today
    May 31, 2012

    Edward J. Laurance is a professor of international policy studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He was a consultant to the UN Register of Conventional Arms (1992-1994), the UN Group of Governmental Experts on Small Arms (1996-1997), and the UN program of action on small arms (2000-2001) and currently serves as an expert for the UN project developing international standards to control small arms. He is author of The International Arms Trade (1992).
  • The Urgent Need for an Arms Trade Treaty
    Arms Control Today
    May 31, 2012

    Late last month, UN officials confirmed that more than 100 Syrians—the majority women and children—were killed following artillery and tank shelling of civilians near the town of Haoula by the forces of President Bashar al-Assad. Despite the brutality of the Assad regime over the 15-month conflict in which some 10,000 Syrians have been killed, Russia, Iran, and possibly others continue to sell weapons to Damascus.
  • Fifty Organizations Urge President Obama to Pursue Robust and Effective Global Arms Trade Treaty
    Press Room
    May 23, 2012

    (WASHINGTON, D.C.)—As part of a growing global campaign to build support for an effective and robust international agreement to regulate international arms deals, more than fifty organizations are urging President Barack Obama to “spare no effort to seize the historic opportunity to negotiate a robust, bullet-proof Arms Trade Treaty (ATT).”