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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

  be time well spent. Patrick Mc CarthyReferencesInformal Meeting on Transfer Control Principles for Small Arms and Light Weapons, 27-31 August 2007, Geneva.UN Programme of Action on the illicit trade in small arms and light weaponsPhoto credit: NorthSun on flickr.

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• Last Chance for the Conference on Disarmament?

  Published: August 12, 2007, 11:14 pm

  Tags: Conference On Disarmament, Npt, Mc Carthy, Fmt, Enmod, Btwc, Paros, Cwc, Fissile Material, Ctbt, Fmct, Bwc

  lofty description. Patrick Mc CarthyReferencePicture: The Council Chamber, meeting place of the Conference of Disarmament in the Palais des Nations, Geneva (Photo credit: sara.wagle on flickr.com)

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• Is there a Geneva / New York divide?

  Published: July 8, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: United Nations, New York, Civil Society, Mc Carthy, Negotiators, Humanitarian Impacts, Disarmament, Arms Control, Geneva, Multilateral Negotiations, Bob Dylan, Diplomacy

  in the wind...Patrick Mc CarthyReferencePhoto Credit: Bob Dylan by legduma on flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/legduma/457080723/

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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

  nut to crack.Patrick Mc CarthyPhoto credit: Monohex on flickr

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• Do "non-lethal" weapons really exist?

  Published: September 17, 2007, 4:02 am

  Tags: Taser, Chemical Weapons Convention, Ak 47, Tear Gas, Mc Carthy, Non Lethal Weapons, Cwc, Biological Weapons Convention, Riot Control, Moscow Theatre Siege, Bwc

  in the room as well.Patrick Mc CarthyReferencePhoto Credit: Timophoto on flickr.

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• Bulletproof Babies

  Published: September 21, 2007, 8:48 am

  Tags: Taser, Urban Violence, Mc Carthy, Hoax, Bulletproofbaby Net, Small Arms, Armed Violence, Security, Light Weapons, Illicit Trade

  Watch this space.Patrick Mc CarthyReferences:Video from fakiris33 on youtube.

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• When is it acceptable to harm civilians?

  Published: October 3, 2007, 3:16 am

  Tags: Unacceptable Harm, Mc Carthy, Humanitarian Impacts, Belgrade, Oslo Process, Cluster Munitions, Civilians, Affected States

  than it was before.Patrick Mc CarthyReferencesCluster Munition Coalition press release on the Belgrade Conference of States Affected by Cluster Munitions, "Contaminated Countries Embrace Ban on Cluster Munitions" (2 October 2007).Photo Credit: truelovecj on flickr

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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

  important issues.Patrick Mc CarthyPhoto credit: Joe Kaehny on Flickr.

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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

  in February 2008.Patrick Mc CarthyReferencePhoto credit: Control Arms

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• Cluster Munitions Proving Hard Nut to Crack for CCW

  Published: November 9, 2007, 11:03 am

  Tags: Mc Carthy, Ccw, Oslo Process, Cluster Munitions

  Stay tuned...Patrick Mc CarthyPhoto courtesy of the author

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• The Power of the President

  Published: November 23, 2007, 3:26 am

  Tags: Verification, Mc Carthy, Ccw, Btwc, Oslo Process, Cluster Munitions, Biological Weapons Convention, Multilateral Negotiations, Masood Khan

  be his Magnum Opus.Patrick Mc CarthyReferencesMasood Khan, "The 2006 BWC Review Conference: The President's Reflections." Disarmament Diplomacy, issue no. 84, spring 2007.John Borrie, "The Limits of Modest Progress: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Efforts to Strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention." Arms Control Today, October 2006.Photo

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• If this blog was a cluster bomb, you'd be dead

  Published: December 4, 2007, 4:03 pm

  Tags: Mc Carthy, Cluster Munition Coalition, Oslo Process, Cluster Munitions, Vienna, Lima, Oslo Declaration

  Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) is no longer talking about banning cluster munitions "that cause unacceptable harm to civilians," the formulation that lies at the centre of the Oslo Declaration. The talk now among NGOs is just about banning cluster munitions, pure and simple, since, the CMC argues, all cluster munitions cause unacceptable harm.

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• Cluster Munitions: Passing the baton from Vienna to Wellington

  Published: December 7, 2007, 7:03 am

  Tags: Mc Carthy, Wellington, Failure Rates, Africa, Cluster Munition Coalition, Victims, Cluster Munitions, Coalition, Vienna, Dublin, Oslo Declaration, M85

  pointed out by the CMC, only 4 users of cluster munitions did not participate in the Vienna conference (Eritrea, Israel, Russia and the United States). Twenty-three of the 34 producers of cluster munitions were here; as were 55 of the 79 stockpilers.The conference sketched the lines of the negotiations that will take place at the

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• The Opportunity Cost of Arms Control Meetings

  Published: February 4, 2008, 10:55 am

  Tags: Mc Carthy, Disarmament Calendar, Un Programme Of Action On Small Arms, Small Arms, Disarmament Commission, Cluster Munitions, Biennial Meeting Of States, Multilateral Negotiations, First Committee

  the thing being done.Patrick Mc CarthyPhoto Credit: "Piggy Homocide" by True Scot on Flickr.

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• Dealing with Deadlock in Multilateral Disarmament Negotiations

  Published: February 12, 2008, 2:19 pm

  Tags: Conference On Disarmament, Outer Space, Mc Carthy, Ccw, Oslo Process, Deadlock, Cluster Munitions, Multilateral Negotiations, Anti Personnel Mines, Consensus, Sergey Lavrov, First Committee

  ideas out there?Patrick Mc CarthyPhoto Credit: 'Locked' by Pedro Da Silva on Flickr

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