Campaigns: Control Arms
Campaign Success - An Arms Trade Treaty is agreed
After three years' hard work by Control Arms campaigners all around the world, the UN voted in October 2006 in favour of a resolution to start work on an Arms Trade Treaty. The new resolution commits the United Nations to set up a group of governmental experts to establish the basis of "a comprehensive, legally binding instrument establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms" - An Arms Trade Treaty.
Thanks to pressure from campaigners before the vote, not only did the text of the treaty change to include a direct reference to Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law, but 116 countries agreed to co-sponsor the resolution and 139 countries voted in favour of it. This treaty will have a real impact on the arms trade, and will ultimately prevent weapons ending up in the hands of human rights abusers, and fuelling conflict and poverty.
We will continue to monitor the UN process to ensure that the Treaty process is completed.
Thanks to all of you who added your face to the million faces petition.
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