Stop a Bullet, Stop a War: Why ammunition must be included in the Arms Trade Treaty

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Author(s)
BasuRay, Deepayan
Murphy, Ben
Publication date
2012-05-30
Subject
Conflict and disasters
Governance and citizenship
Keywords
Conflict
Arms trade
Country
Burkina Faso
Côte D'Ivoire
Syrian Arab Republic

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Publisher(s)
Oxfam International
Series
ATT Briefings: The Final Countdown
Document type
Technical briefing
Description
Guns are useless without bullets. An Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) that does not control ammunition will not achieve its purposes. Ammunition is bigger business than weapons, with twelve billion bullets produced each year - nearly two bullets for every person in the world. The global trade in ammunition for small arms and light weapons is worth more than the trade in firearms and light weapons themselves: an estimated $4.3bn a year. An ATT that does not cover ammunition will fail to achieve what it has set out to do - that is, to help prevent human suffering, armed conflict, and serious violations of international humanitarian law and human rights. Several countries are arguing that ammunition should be excluded from the ATT. Some of these countries say the sheer volume of trade makes it too difficult to monitor. This would be a colossal mistake. There are already several ways to track ammunition transfers. Inclusion in the ATT would significantly strengthen these mechanisms and the resolve to implement them. Failure would undermine what best practice already exists.
Pages
10
ISBN
978-1-78077-099-4
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10546/226711
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https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/stop-a-bullet-stop-a-war-why-ammunition-must-be-included-in-the-arms-trade-trea-226711
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