Links and resources
Arms Without Borders: Why a globalised trade needs global controls -- Oct 2006 (PDF File 720kb)
The globalisation of the arms industry has opened up major loopholes in all current arms export regulations, allowing sales to human rights abusers and countries under arms embargoes.
Ammunition: the fuel of conflict -- June 2006 (PDF File 162kb)
Up to 14 billion bullets are manufactured globally every year and there is no reliable data on how billions of those bullets are used or to whom they may be sold.
UN arms embargoes: an overview of the last ten years -- March 2006 (PDF File 245kb)
Despite the fact that every one of the 13 United Nations arms embargoes imposed in the last decade has been systematically violated, only a handful of the many arms embargo breakers named in UN sanctions reports has been successfully prosecuted.
The call for tough arms controls -- January 2006
Voices from Haiti (PDF File 227kb)
Voices from Sierra Leone (PDF File 626kb)
Voices from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (PDF File 582 kb)
Towards an Arms Trade Treaty: Next steps for the UN Programme of Action -- July 2005 (PDF File 332kb)
There is an imperative need for an international Arms Trade Treaty, based on fundamental principles of international law, to reduce the human cost of arms proliferation, prevent unscrupulous weapons suppliers finding the weakest point in the supply chain, and ensure that all arms exporters are working to the same standards.
The impact of guns on women’s lives -- March 2005 (PDF File 1.5mb)
Large numbers of women and girls suffer directly and indirectly from armed violence. Women are particularly at risk of certain crimes because of their gender – crimes such as violence in the home and rape.
Guns or Growth? Assessing the impact of arms sales on sustainable development -- June 2004 (PDF File 984kb)
Excessive or inappropriate arms purchases are a drain on social and economic resources which developing countries cannot afford.
Shattered Lives: the case for tough international arms control -- October 2003 (PDF File 3.4mb)
Every day, millions of men, women, and children are living in fear of armed violence. The uncontrolled proliferation and misuse of arms by government forces and armed groups takes a massive human toll in lost lives, lost livelihoods, and lost opportunities to escape poverty.
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