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
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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
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The USA should notify the Treaty Depository that the U.S. does not intend to ratify the ATT and does not consider itself bound by the treaty.
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The U.S. Goal at the Conference of States Parties of the Arms Trade Treaty: Keep the Treaty on Its Downward Spiral.
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The incoming Administration and the Senate should make it clear that the U.S. will not become a party to the Arms Trade Treaty.
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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.
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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..
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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…
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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…
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NGOs that support the treaty have already engaged in an extended effort to deny skeptics the right to participate in its meetings…
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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…
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In short, the PoA is a venue for the incorporation of gun control norms into the ATT and other U.N. instruments…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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