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A Court has ruled that British arms sales to Saudi Arabia are unlawful, on the grounds that ministers had made no assessments of whether the Saudis had committed violations of international humanitari
The highlight of the Arms Trade Treaty review’s gender panic was probably a speech by a left-wing NGO which argued that “militarised masculinity is . . . the main impediment to disarmament, peace, and
The U.S. Goal at the Conference of States Parties of the Arms Trade Treaty: Keep the Treaty on Its Downward Spiral.
The incoming Administration and the Senate should make it clear that the U.S. will not become a party to the Arms Trade Treaty.
The Obama Administration’s record on firearms is curiously mixed. On the one hand, the President deserves an award – which he is unlikely to receive or want – as America’s greatest gun salesman.
As we have seen for decades, nations, as well as individuals, will not comply with the U. N. Arms Trade Treaty, because their sovereignty will always be at stake..
For the president to now send this treaty to the Senate, during the lame-duck session, & after Clinton’s election defeat, is essentially dropping the treaty in the trash…
Congress has played a vital role in placing the ATT on this road to irrelevance. It should help to ensure that the U.S. is not slowly pulled into compliance…
NGOs that support the treaty have already engaged in an extended effort to deny skeptics the right to participate in its meetings…
The Obama Administration, without even transmitting the treaty to the Senate, has sought to implement it. Congress should hold hearings to reveal the extent U.S. policies have been shaped by ATT…
In short, the PoA is a venue for the incorporation of gun control norms into the ATT and other U.N. instruments…
Particularly worrying is the way the ATT is rapidly becoming part of wider UN conventional arms control initiatives – which, since the ATT is not an arms control treaty, is unwelcome…
In a bipartisan letter led by Senators Jerry Moran (R–KS) and Joe Manchin (D–WV), and half of the Senate has officially pledged to oppose the ratification of the ATT…
Secretary of State John Kerry welcomes it with open arms, noting that the U.S. look[ed] forward to signing it as soon as the process of conforming the official translations is completed…
The U.S. has announced that it will sign the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty as soon as it is satisfactorily translated into all official U.N. languages…
Proponents of the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty assert that the treaty prevents signatories from supporting not only the Syrian opposition but future rebellions against other totalitarian regimes…
At heart, many of the backers of the Arms Trade Treaty abroad and some in the U.S., dislike the entire arms trade and the U.S. predominance in it, as well as the Second Amendment…
The U.S. has announced that it will sign the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty in the near future, once all foreign language translations are satisfactorily completed, which will happen by August 28, 2013…
The concept of the ATT is inherently flawed, and the U.S. should neither sign nor ratify the ATT. But the process by which it was adopted is even more damaging…
So now we have an undesirable treaty, one that will be expanded and elaborated on over time, and one that was adopted through a bad process. This is just about the worst of all possible worlds…
One of the unreported stories about the negotiation of the Arms Trade Treaty is the effort by many U.N. members & NGOs, to blame the failure of the first negotiating conference last July on the United States…
Late on Thursday, the U.N. conference on the Arms Trade Treaty fell apart when Iran, North Korea, and Syria opposed the treaty…
It is extremely likely that the ATT will be adopted by consensus tomorrow. The U.S. should break consensus on this treaty text. If the U.S. does not do so, the U.S. should certainly neither sign nor ratify any Arms Trade Treaty that results from it…
In New York, the Arms Trade Treaty conference is entering its final phase, and the ways in which the negotiations might fail are becoming clearer…
The temperature of the conference is notably lower now, and there is a renewed sense that Thursday is likely to bring agreement on a much sought after Arms Trade Treaty…
Late on Friday, the president of the U.N. Conference negotiating the Arms Trade Treaty released his latest draft of the treaty…
By the time Friday came to a close, it seemed possible that the conference might collapse into the same acrimonious confusion that ended last July’s negotiations…
The atmosphere, which had in previous days been calm, felt like last July, when the last negotiating conference collapsed into failure…
As the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) conference moved through its third day, the isolation of the United States became ever clearer…
The morning’s discussion (March 19th 2013 ) at the U.N. on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) brought into focus one of the underlying tensions among the nations negotiating the treaty…
