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Survivors Call for a Treaty to Benefit All of Humanity
United Nations, New York: Survivors of armed violence from Sri Lanka, Guatemala, United States of America, Albania, Jamaica, Namibia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo presented a SURVIVOR DECLARATION in support of a strong Arms Treaty (ATT). The Declaration came...
Time to Walk the Talk on Arms Trade Treaty
Crucial Week Ahead as Arms Trade Treaty negotiations resume in New York With France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States now caught in scandals involving pending and past transfers of arms to places where there is substantial risk they will be used to...
Control Arms Appoints Secretariat
Control Arms is thrilled to announce the appointment of staff for its Secretariat in New York. Jeff Abramson will take up the role of Coordinator, Eva Kouka has been appointed Communications and Campaign Officer, and Emma Ensign the Operations and Administration...
States make “big step” towards an Arms Trade Treaty
Baffour Amoa, spokesperson for the Control Arms Coalition said: “This week, governments took a big step towards the establishment of a robust treaty to regulate the international arms trade. Despite serious efforts by some states to derail or weaken the process, we...
Making it Bulletproof: Including ammunition in the ATT
Each year, 12 billion bullets are produced, two bullets per person in the world. Unrestricted access to ammunition fuels conflict and crime across the globe. Often referred to as “the real weapon of mass destruction”, hundreds of thousands of people are killed by...
Control Arms Coalition: Time to get serious on the Arms Trade Treaty
Top of the agenda will be discussions around the criteria against which transfers of arms should either be authorized or denied. Campaigners stress that if there is a substantial risk that weapons, munitions or related equipment will be used for serious human rights...
Seventh Conference of States Parties (CSP202q)
CITY, COUNTRY - 00 - 00 Month 2021
Sierra Leone is presiding over the Seventh Conference of States Parties (CSP 2021) of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)
Background
Provisional Agenda LINKS
Provisional Annotated Program of Work LINKS
Final Report LINK
President's Announcement for CSP7 LINK
Press Release
Statements on behalf of the Control Arms Coalition
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