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2024 will mark ten years since the Arms Trade Treaty entered into force. But while getting the words agreed on paper is one thing; the bigger challenge comes after: making sure the Treaty makes a difference in the real world.
25 May 2023On 19 April 2023, in collaboration with the Emergent Justice Collective and the International Commission of Jurists, we launched the new Arms Trade Litigation Monitor – a website which tracks and documents legal proceedings that seek accountability for arms transfers linked with armed conflict and humanitarian crisis globally.
19 April 2023This episode delves into the history of the UK leadership on the arms trade, including its role in developing the Arms Trade Treaty. It goes on to discuss the devastating impact of arms sales to Saudi Arabia on the people of Yemen.
18 March 2021With COVID-19 creating havoc for all manner of international processes, the Sixth Conference of States Parties of the Arms Trade Treaty limited itself to a ‘conference by written procedure’, intended to do little more than keep things ticking over. In this it largely succeeded, but a pre-COVID-19 trend to less transparency seemed to accelerate over the year, writes Roy Isbister.
28 August 2020