Treaties concerning international law concluded under the auspices of the United Nations and related intergovernmental organizations International Cocoa Agreement. Geneva, 25 June 2010 331 Multilateral Agreement for the establishment of an international think tank for Landlocked Developing Countries. New York, 24 September 2010 363 Central African Convention for the control of small arms and light weapons, their ammunition and all parts and components that can be used for their manufacture, repair and assembly. Kinshasa, 30 April 2010 369 Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Nagoya, 29 October 2010 392 Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary...
... 307 10 World Trade Organization. (a) Membership ... importance of the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Thei...
The first two biennial meetings held to consider the implementation of the Program of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (PoA) in 2003 and 2005 had been criticized for their lack of tangible results, specifically the absence of an agreed outcome. Small arms and light weapons are the instruments of choice in crime and conflict, undermining security, human rights, and social and economic development worldwide.2 It is estimated that armed violence kills more than 740,000 people each year, both directly and indirectly, with approximately two-thirds of these deaths occurring outside war zones.
After failing to achieve consensus at a 2006 review conference, this year's delegates to an international gathering to address the illicit trade of small arms and light weapons overcame procedural objections to vote for modest next steps. In 2001, UN member states adopted the Program of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects and in 2005 agreed to an International Instrument to Enable States to Identify and Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Manner, Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons.
While rockets and missiles and heavy artillery dominate the escalating violence and warfare between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah, it should not be forgotten that small arms and light weapons also kill people, mostly women and children. Some 1,500 people per day and more than 500,000 in a year are victims of armed violence and its devastating consequences in humanitarian and developmental terms. These grim statistics are not based on hunting accidents. Focusing on the responsibility of the state in favor of collective interests and speaking for the European Union, Austria's State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Hans Winkler promised a "fight against the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons that has become even more urgent in the context of the intensified international actio...
ARLINGTON, Va., July 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- John M. Snyder, founder/chairman of the interdenominational St. Gabriel Possenti Society, Inc., recently presented the Society Medallion to Col. Jairo Paes de Lira, director of the Brazilian Pro-Legitimate Defense Coalition, during a McLean, Va. reception sponsored by the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP). Snyder noted that De Lira led last year's successful grassroots efforts against a proposed private firearm ban in South America's largest country. He called the retired police commander from Sao Paulo "a genuine hero of the burgeoning international right to keep and bear arms movement. His achievement is a significant development in the ongoing international right to self-defense campaign. That campai...
The United States will oppose any international effort to limit access of U.S. civilians to legal firearms but supports stronger controls on arms imports and exports, a senior State Department official said yesterday. The United States believes it is important for all of us to speak with one voice concerning the grave matter of the international illicit trade in small arms and light weapons," said Robert Joseph, the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security.
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The 2001 conference was unable to agree on legally binding measures, instead producing the voluntary Program of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects. Such criteria, the letter volunteers, could include the prevention of arms transfers that could result in human rights abuses or terrorism, violations of international treaties and embargoes, or disruptions to regional peace and security.
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