Add your voice!

Speak Out has launched. The popular mobilization campaign of the Control Arms Coalition builds on the success of the 2006 Million Faces petition, in which one million people gave their image in support of starting negotiations on an Arms Trade Treaty.

Now that the final treaty negotiations are only months away, Control Arms is asking supporters to give their voices and speak out.

The Arms Trade Treaty is the name of a multilateral treaty that would control the international trade of conventional weapons.

The treaty is being negotiated in a series of preparatory committees leading up to a negotiating conference in 2012.

Project Ploughshares, in partnership with other NGOs, has actively promoted an Arms Trade Treaty since the mid-1990s

Ploughshares is a member of the Steering Board of the Control Arms Coalition, a group of NGOs promoting the Arms Trade Treaty.

The ATT would require states to:

• adopt and implement national mechanisms that expressly authorize international transfers of arms;
• prohibit the transfer of arms that would be used to violate internationally established standards of human rights, international humanitarian law and non-aggression;
• not authorize transfers of weapons that would adversely affect sustainable development, regional peace and security or be used in the commission of violent crimes.

ATT Background
ATT Fact Sheet
ATT Slideshow

Recent Publications

Detour through Darfur: Canada's exports reveal the trouble with tracking arms October 2011

Gaps and Omissions: Canada’s arms exports 2007–2009 July 2011

Canadian Commercial Corporation: A Crown Company as Arms Middleman April 2011

Links

Control ArmsArms Trade Treaty
International Action Network on Small Arms
EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports

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