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• A More Responsible Trade in Guns

  Published: August 23, 2007, 11:15 am

  Tags: Canada, Mc Carthy, Un Programme Of Action On Small Arms, Small Arms, Arms Trade Treaty, Att, Arms Transfers

  carriers - the so-called Arms Trade Treaty. It would seem that governments are finally paying serious attention to regulating the global arms trade. If next week's meeting can move us one more step along that road, it will be time well spent. Patrick Mc CarthyReferencesInformal Meeting on Transfer Control Principles for Small Arms and

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• Small arms: not a happy birthday

  Published: July 17, 2007, 3:51 am

  Tags: Ak 47, Kalashnikov, Small Arms, Borrie, Human Security, Arms Trade Treaty, Att

  The Independent ( Global arms trade: Africa and the curse of the AK-47 ), some 60 per cent of guns in the world are in civilian hands. Each year, the arms trade adds 8 million more guns to the 650 million already in circulation around the globe. Of these, Control Arms Campaign figures quoted in the story estimate about 100 million are

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• Arms and Non-State Groups

  Published: September 6, 2007, 3:18 pm

  Tags: Unidir, Non State Armed Groups, Mc Carthy, Terrorism, Biological Weapons, Arms Trade Treaty, Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Arms Transfers, Wmd

  in Geneva on small arms transfer controls (see my posting of August 23), which is perhaps one of the reasons that the conference was so successful. The issue will have to be dealt with head on, however, by the nascent UN process leading towards the negotiation of a legally-binding Arms Trade Treaty regulating the transfer of all

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• The First Committee Carnival Begins

  Published: October 17, 2007, 5:02 am

  Tags: Mc Carthy, General Assembly, Reaching Critical Will, Voting, Arms Trade Treaty, Consensus, First Committee Monitor, First Committee

  in initiating important new arms control initiatives. At last year's meeting, for example, a resolution calling for a new treaty to control the trade in all conventional weapons (a so-called Arms Trade Treaty) was passed with 153 votes in favour and one against, the latter cast by the United States. This process is now underway and the United

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• The Arms Trade Treaty that States Want

  Published: October 29, 2007, 4:46 am

  Tags: Unidir, Mc Carthy, Control Arms, Conventional Weapons, Arms Transfer Criteria, Arms Trade Treaty, Att, First Committee Monitor, First Committee

  instruments relating to the arms trade already exist. Finally, an Arms Trade Treaty would largely collect and codify fundamental principles of international law that also already exist.What States think about the scope of an Arms Trade Treaty can best be illustrated by a quote from the UNIDIR study:"Most States indicated that an Arms Trade

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• Signing Off for 2007

  Published: December 14, 2007, 9:05 am

  Tags: Npt, Oslo Process, Ammunition, Cluster Munitions, Fissile Material, Nuclear Weapons, Arms Trade Treaty, Erw, Bwc, Conference On Disarmament, Small Arms, Missiles, Biological Weapons

  Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty will take place in Geneva in April/May.-- The third Biennial Meeting of States on the UN Programme of Action on the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons will be held in New York in July.So, whether you work in the area of disarmament and arms control as an analyst, activist, diplomat or observer, have

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• Civil Society Schizophrenia

  Published: February 26, 2008, 8:38 am

  Tags: Npt, Mc Carthy, Oslo Process, Cluster Munitions, Arms Trade Treaty, Bwc, Wilpf, Conference On Disarmament, Mine Ban Treaty, Unpoa, Ccw, Cluster Munition Coalition, Control Arms

  where negotiations on an Arms Trade Treaty, when they begin, might fit into this scheme (although, based purely on the impressive role civil society, in the form of the Control Arms campaign, has played to date, it should score quite high).Any such ranking cannot be set in stone, however. As an illustration of this, recent experiments with

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• Worrying the Lords of War

  Published: March 13, 2008, 6:03 pm

  Tags: Mc Carthy, Un Programme Of Action On Small Arms, Lord Or War, Arms Trade Treaty, Arms Brokering, Arms Dealing, Viktor Bout, Illicit Trade

  of Action on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons and the proposed Arms Trade Treaty. If he begins to look distinctly uncomfortable and breaks out in a cold sweat, we'll know we're on the right track. Given the rather anaemic regulation of the global arms trade that we have at the moment, however, I would predict a somewhat

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• All at sea on arms trade controls

  Published: April 24, 2008, 10:58 am

  Tags: An Yue Jiang, 2005 World Summit, Arms Trade, Mc Carthy, China, Zimbabwe, Responsibility To Protect, Arms Trade Treaty

  standards in the arms trade. It also suggests that the process of developing an Arms Trade Treaty will not be an easy one. The saga of the An Yue Jian provides a valuable real-world case-study that should be of value to UN Member States as they grapple with ways of effectively regulating the global arms trade.Patrick Mc CarthyNews

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• Dealing with gun violence

  Published: June 12, 2008, 3:36 pm

  Tags: Mc Carthy, International Tracing Instrument, Un Programme Of Action On Small Arms, Small Arms, Iansa, Arms Trade Treaty, Gun Violence, Firearms Protocol

  for a broad range of small arms control measures. The World Health Organisation is running a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention. Finally, ambitious efforts are underway with strong support from UN Member States to develop an Arms Trade Treaty that would regulate the global trade in all conventional weapons, including guns.All of this is

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