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Arms Trade Treaty
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Arms Control TodayJanuary 12, 2012
Since 2006, government representatives to the United Nations have been engaged in progressively wider and deeper discussions toward the negotiation of a treaty to regulate the trade in conventional arms. In 2009 the UN General Assembly decided to convene a conference that established a timetable for crafting an arms trade treaty (ATT), which is to be “a legally binding instrument on the highest-possible common international standards for the transfer of conventional arms.”
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Arms Control TodayDecember 2, 2011
In the high-profile criminal case against a man who has become a symbol of the illicit arms trade, a federal jury in New York City on Nov. 3 found arms dealer Viktor Bout guilty on all four charges brought against him.
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Arms Control TodayNovember 2, 2011
More than three years after his arrest, the trial of suspected arms trafficker Viktor Bout began Oct. 11 at a U.S. federal court in New York.
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Fact Sheets & BriefsOctober 11, 2011
October 2011
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Arms Control TodayAugust 30, 2011
The five permanent members of the UN Security Council in July endorsed the negotiation process for an arms trade treaty as the diplomat chairing the treaty talks circulated an unofficial model text of the pact.
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Arms Control TodayAugust 30, 2011
Each year, thousands of civilians around the world are slaughtered by weapons sold to unscrupulous regimes and transferred to criminals and illegal militias. The enormous human toll of this cycle of violence undermines economic development and political stability in fragile regions.
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Issue BriefsAugust 12, 2011
Volume 2, Issue 11, August 12, 2011
Each year, thousands of civilians around the world are slaughtered by weapons sold to unscrupulous regimes and transferred to illegal militias and criminals. In addition to the human toll, this cycle of violence undermines economic development and political stability in often fragile regions.
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Arms Control TodayJuly 7, 2011
In 1991, in the wake of the Persian Gulf War, the international community sought to tighten controls on the conventional arms trade. Today, as Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi uses imported military equipment against opponents of his regime, the 1991 efforts and their mixed results deserve renewed attention.
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ACA EventsApril 15, 2011
Remarks by Jeff Abramson, Deputy Director, to the Consultative Committee of the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Material (CIFTA).
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Arms Control TodayApril 3, 2011
A recent meeting showed signs of progress in the international effort to create an arms trade treaty. Countries discussed key questions such as what types of weapons and transfers the pact would cover.
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