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Small Arms Survey 2006: Unfinished Business

This is an independent research project at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. This edition features case studies on small arms violence in Papua New Guinea and Colombia, armed groups in West Africa, and the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda. The final chapter "Angry Young Men" considers why young men account for the lion's share of global small arms violence. Summaries of all 12 Chapters are available. (July 2006)

http://hei.unige.ch/sas/files/sas/publications/yearb2006.html

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Stopping the Global Terror Trade

Brian Wood of Amnesty International details the global trade in small arms. He analyses not only inter-state transactions, but those involving brokers.

http://zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=2820

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Taking aim at small arms: Defending children's rights: A Unicef Photo Exhibition

This gallery is a window on war, a war fuelled by small arms and light weapons that has claimed millions of lives in the last decade alone. View artwork by children affected by war, look through the photographer's lens and see some of the lives impacted by small arms, take a virtual tour of the physical exhibition and discover where you can find out more about the issues online and offline.

http://www.unicef.org/smallarms/exhibit

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The call for tough arms controls: Voices from Sierra Leone

This report by Oxfam examines the human costs of the World's arms trade by focusing on the conflict in Sierra Leone. The report notes that, by the end of the conflict, tens of thousands of people had been killed (out of a population of five million); thousands more had been mutilated or raped; and an estimated 10,000 children had been abducted to be child soldiers. Up to two-thirds of the population had been displaced from their homes, and another 600,000 had fled the country. The report itself focuses on the stories of four victims of the conflict and, in doing so, makes personal the costs of the World's most brutal trade.

http://www.oxfam.org/en/files/doc_controlarms_sierraleone_060109/download

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The call for tough arms controls: Voices from the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The war in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has cost millions of lives. Hundreds of thousands of people have been shot dead. Millions have died from the indirect consequences of war. What the figures do not reveal is the personal suffering of individual people, families, and villages. That is why in November 2005 the Control Arms campaign interviewed some of those who have suffered. In 2006, beginning in January, a series of debates on disarmament are due to take place at the United Nations. There will be technical arguments and diplomatic negotiations. The purpose of this report is to add to these discussions the voices of at least some of the people who bear the cost of the world's continuing failure to control the arms trade.

http://www.oxfam.org/en/policy/briefingnotes/doc_controlarms_drc_060109

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The Control Arms Campaign

Every minute someone is killed by armed violence. The uncontrolled proliferation and misuse of arms takes a massive human toll. Amnesty International, Oxfam and IANSA have joined forces in a campaign to establish strict controls and vigilant monitoring and to expose the role of governments in facilitating human rights abuses through the trade in arms.

http://www.amnestyusa.org/arms_trade/

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The Small Arms Survey 2004: Rights at Risk

The Small Arms Survey 2004: Rights at Risk provides original research and updated information on small arms production, stockpiles, and trade. In focusing on the links between small arms and the abuse of human rights, this edition explores the impact of arms exports to areas of conflict, the role of weapons in global violence and crime, and the implementation of human rights standards by police forces worldwide. The Survey also features in-depth coverage of issues such as the growing concern over MANPADS and the role of small arms in the Pacific and Kyrgyzstan. This webpage has some chapters and chapter summaries available for downloading.

http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/files/sas/publications/yearb2004.html

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Towards A Common Approach To Weapons Control: Nadi Framework

The suggested legal framework arising from the South Pacific Chiefs of Police Conference (SPCPC) Working Group in Fiji in March 2000.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/smallarms/regional/nadi.rtf

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U.S. Weapons at War 2005: Promoting Freedom or Fueling Conflict?

A World Policy Institute Special Report by Frida Berrigan and William D. Hartung, with Leslie Heffel June 2005. This report is part of a continuing series of issue briefs on contemporary security issues being published by the World Policy Institute's Program on Collective Security and Preventive Diplomacy. "Perhaps no single policy is more at odds with President Bush's pledge to "end tyranny in our world" than the United States' role as the world's leading arms exporting nation. Although arms sales are often justified on the basis of their purported benefits, from securing access to overseas military facilities to rewarding coalition allies in conflicts such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, these alleged benefits often come at a high price. All too often, U.S. arms transfers end up fueling conflict, arming human rights abusers, or falling into the hands of U.S. adversaries."

http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/wawjune2005.html

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Urge governments to vote 'yes' for a global Arms Trade Treaty

The arms trade is out of control and is fuelling conflict, poverty and human rights abuses worldwide. Every government is responsible. Civil Society is campaigning for a global Arms Trade Treaty to bring the trade in weapons under control. Send an appeal to key governments urging them to vote for a global Arms Trade Treaty.

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions_details.asp?ActionID=159

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WMDs in Slow Motion

Last week, Pyongyang test-fired seven missiles in defiance of international opposition. The response has been justifiably high, but far less attention has been given to an equally dangerous threat to security around the world - the spread of small arms. The US and other states have scuppered a deal at the UN small arms review conference, which aimed to advance international efforts to control the small arms trade. to control the equally deadly trade in small arms. (Mary Robinson, Guardian, 1 July 2006)

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0711-31.htm

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