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Africa:
UN Chief Urges Consensus on Robust Arms Trade Treaty
UN News, 18 March 2013
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged participants of the United Nations Final Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) to conclude work by 28 March on a comprehensive… Read more »
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Africa:
Will States Agree On How to Regulate the Weapons Trade?
ISS, 19 March 2013
The United Nations (UN) Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is underway at the UN Headquarters in New York from 18-28 March 2013. Read more »
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Africa:
Curbing the Arms Trade?
AfricaFocus, 19 March 2013
The United Nations began new meetings this week to finalize negotiations on an international treaty governing trade in conventional arms. But enacting a strong treaty without major… Read more »
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Africa:
Priorities for African States Negotiating for an Arms Trade Treaty
ISS, 11 March 2013
A strong Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is needed because of the poorly regulated international transfer of conventional arms and the current absence of global standards based on human… Read more »
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Nigeria:
39,880 Militants' Firearms, Ammunition Handed Over to Nigerian Army
Vanguard, 17 March 2013
The 39,880 assorted firearms and ammunition recovered from former militants in the Niger Delta by the inter-agency taskforce set up by the Federal Government have been handed over… Read more »
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Africa:
World Powers Urged to Support a Robust Arms Trade Treaty
AI London, 12 March 2013
Arms supplied by the world's major powers are among those contributing to the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives and blighting the livelihoods of millions of people every year,… Read more »
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Africa:
Urgent Call for Tighter Rules On Arms Trade On Eve of Final Treaty Negotiations
Oxfam, 12 March 2013
Draft Arms Trade Treaty text littered with loopholes which need fixing urgently to save lives Read more »
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Africa:
Global Arms Trade Treaty - a Beginners' Guide
AI London, 11 March 2013
It all started in the early 1990's in a small office in central London, where a group of Amnesty International and NGO activists and then lawyers spent days trying to find a legal… Read more »
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Africa:
Women Explain Why an Arms Trade Treaty Can Save Many Lives
AI London, 7 March 2013
It is estimated at least half a million people are killed with guns every year and on average a further 200,000 men, women and children die as an indirect result of armed conflicts… Read more »
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Africa:
Adopt a Strong Arms Treaty 'Before Millions More Die'
AI London, 6 March 2013
No one knows the global arms trade's devastating effects more vividly than those who live and work on the front lines of armed conflict and in areas ravaged by violence delivered… Read more »