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  Arms Trade Treaty: Background Documents & Websites

Project Ploughshares is a member of the ATT Steering Committee, a group of NGOs promoting the ATT. Recent publications of the ATT Steering Committee include:

The Arms Trade Treaty: Countering Myths and Misperceptions
Amnesty International, Instituto Sou da Paz, Oxfam, Project Ploughshares, Saferworld, and
Albert Schweitzer Institute
July 2009

The Vital Components of an Arms Trade Treaty (English) (French)
Control Arms, July 2009

International Arms Trade Treaty — Global Principles
Revised and updated 2007

Assessing the feasibility, scope and parameters of an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT): An NGO perspective
A briefing paper prepared by the ATT Steering Committee of NGOs to guide UN member state submissions on the ATT to the UN Secretary General.
February 2007 (English Summary, French Summary)

The current members of the ATT Steering Committee are:

African Peace Forum (Kenya),
Amnesty International (International),
Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress (Costa Rica),
Caritas International (International),
Friends Committee on National Legislation (USA),
International Action Network on Small Arms (International),
Non Violence International (International)
Oxfam (International),
Project Ploughshares (Canada),
Saferworld (UK),
Schweitzer Institute (USA)
Sou da Paz (Brazil)
Viva Rio (Brazil)
Women´s Institute for Alternative Development (Trinidad and Tobago) - (868)642-9542

Websites

United Nations ATT
Lists the ATT resolution and country submissions to the Secretary General (including Canada)

Control Arms

Arms Trade Treaty

International Action Network on Small Arms

EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports

 


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