Control Arms Campaign

Control Arms Campaign

Control Arms is a campaign jointly run by Amnesty International, IANSA and Oxfam International.

The campaign focuses on the international trade in arms, arguing that the lack of controls on the arms trade is fuelling armed conflict, poverty and human rights abuses worldwide.

The campaign seeks to build support among governments for an Arms Trade Treaty, a legal instrument that would prohibit arms from being exported to destinations where they are likely to be used to commit grave human rights violations. Such a treaty would require countries to comply with international human rights and humanitarian law standards when authorizing weapons transfers. [1]

After three years' effort by campaigners all around the world, the Control Arms Million Faces petition has now reached its target of a million photographs. On 27 October, 2006, the campaign claimed a major success as governments at the UN voted in favour of a resolution to start work on an Arms Trade Treaty. [2]

References

  1. ^ IANSA (2006-09-04). "The Control Arms Campaign". http://www.iansa.org/control_arms/index.htm. 
  2. ^ The Control Arms Campaign (2006-10-27). "Overwhelming majority of world's governments vote to start work on an international Arms Trade Treaty". http://www.controlarms.com/latest_news/att-pr271006.htm. 

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