Arms Without Borders: Why a globalised trade needs global control

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Author(s)
Cairns, Edmund
Publication date
2006-10-01
Subject
Conflict and disasters
Trade
Keywords
Conflict
Disasters
Arms trade
Protection
Country
China
Iran
Egypt
Republic of Korea

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Publisher(s)
Oxfam International
International Action Network on Small Arms
Amnesty International
Document type
Briefing paper
Description
Globalisation has changed the arms trade. Arms companies, operating from an increasing number of locations, now source components from across the world. Their products are often assembled in countries with lax controls on where they end up. Too easily, weapons get into the wrong hands. Each year, at least a third of a million people are killed directly with conventional weapons and many more die, are injured, abused, forcibly displaced and bereaved as a result of armed violence. Rapidly widening loopholes in national controls demonstrate how this globalised trade also needs global rules. The time for an effective international Arms Trade Treaty is now.
Pages
46
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10546/123935
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https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/arms-without-borders-why-a-globalised-trade-needs-global-control-123935
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