Publications
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Pinocchio Ltd. The NRA and its corporate partners: US shipments of small arms ammunition by sea
- Peter Danssaert, Sergio Finardi | 5 mars 2013
The National Rifle Association (NRA) claims to have monitored in the last 20 years all United Nations activities that could impact Second Amendment rights. Its latest target is the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), an international treaty to establish common international standards for the import, export, and transfer of conventional arms presently under discussion at the United Nations. The international
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Upstream Implementation of the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas. Final Report on one-year pilot implementation of the Supplement on Tin, Tantalum, and Tungsten
- IPIS | 1 janvier 2013
Final Report on one-year pilot implementation of the Supplement on Tin, Tantalum, and Tungsten. This report is the final in a cycle of three reports on the pilot implementation by upstream companies of the “Supplement on Tin, Tantalum and Tungsten of the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas”. The goal of the report is to p
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Annual Report 2012 IPIS
- IPIS | 31 décembre 2012
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The formalisation of artisanal mining in the DRC and Rwanda
- IPIS | 29 décembre 2012
This report describes and evaluates initiatives to formalise the artisanal mining sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda, in order to locate lessons learned. We hope that these perspectives will support the formation of well-informed policy and regulatory options – both by the EU and by harvesting countries – concerning the formalisation of timber production in tropical co
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Exploitation minière industrielle et artisanale au Sud-Kivu. Possibilités d’une cohabitation pacifique ?
- Gabriel Kamundala Byemba | 29 décembre 2012
Le secteur minier en République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) en général et au Sud-Kivu en particulier alimente toujours les débats tant au niveau international qu’au niveau national. Présenté sous plusieurs facettes, ce secteur au Sud-Kivu a été dans le temps industriel, puis artisanal et aujourd’hui il est en même temps artisanal et industriel. Le retour en force, ces dernières années, des société
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Mapping Conflict Minerals (2012)
- Elisabeth Schoepfer, Filip Hilgert, Kristin Sproehnle | 28 décembre 2012
How GMES supports the International Peace Information Service (IPIS), in: Window on GMES, Special Issue: Discover the “S” in GMES, pp. 82-88 Exploitation of natural resources has, in most cases, a strong impact on the environment, often even spoiling natural habitats and affecting people’s way of life. The exploitation and trade of minerals can also fuel armed conflicts, as it is the case in the E
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Violence à l’égard des femmes dans l’est de la République démocratique du Congo : Quelles responsabilités? Quelles complicités?
- IPIS | 25 novembre 2012
IPIS a contribué aux recherches pour et à la rédaction de ce rapport. Résumé : L’est de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC) a été ravagé par la guerre et la violence depuis le milieu des années 1990. Des dizaines de groupes armés illégaux et d’unités militaires portent la responsabilité d’abus incessants aux droits humains et de l’insécurité généralisée. Ce sont les civils qui portent
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Cartographie des motivations derrière les conflits: le M23
- IPIS | 25 novembre 2012
Depuis 2004, IPIS a publié divers rapports sur le conflit qui affecte la République démocratique du Congo (RDC). De 2007 à 2010, IPIS a porté avant tout son attention sur les motivations des principaux groupes armés qui subsistent en RDC suite aux guerres que le Congo a connues en 1996 et en 1998. Depuis 2010, nombre de ces groupes ont été démobilisés, plusieurs ont été intégrés à l’armée congolai
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A Code of Conduct for Arms Transport by Air. Transport Services under an Arms Trade Treaty Series
- Brian Wood, Peter Danssaert, Sergio Finardi | 12 août 2012
This report is a discussion of some key considerations for the development of and “Air Cargo Industry Voluntary Code of Conduct relating to the transport of arms, ammunition and other military equipment” (ACI Code). The purpose of such a Code is to encourage as many aviation companies and other actors as possible in the air cargo industry to adhere to existing and new standards relating to the tr
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Rough Seas. Maritime Transport and Arms Shipments
- Peter Danssaert, Sergio Finardi | 6 juillet 2012
As stated by the authors in their report “Transparency and Accountability” (February 2012), the Chairman’s Draft Paper (14 July 2011) presented by the Arms Trade Treaty’s Preparatory Committee (ATT PrepCom) included within the ATT scope certain activities that should fall under the category of “services”, such as transport and brokering. However, no provision has been envisaged for the monitoring
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Upstream Implementation of the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas. Cycle 2 Interim Progress Report on the Supplement on Tin, Tantalum, and Tungsten
- IPIS | 20 juin 2012
Cycle 2 Interim Progress Report on the Supplement on Tin, Tantalum, and Tungsten. The following report is the second in a cycle of three on upstream companies’ implementation of the Supplement on Tin, Tantalum and Tungsten to the OECD’s Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas. The objective of the following is to report on progres
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‘If you resist, we’ll shoot you’: The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the case for an effective Arms Trade Treaty
- Amnesty International, Peter Danssaert | 7 juin 2012
IPIS contributed to the research for this AI report. In July 2012 UN Member States are to agree the final text of a comprehensive Arms Trade Treaty. The experience of arms proliferation and abuse in the Democratic Republic of the Congo should help to persuade States to establish strict rules consistent with States’ existing responsibilities under international law. This report focuses on several c
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Vlaams Wapenhandeldecreet: Analyse en aanbevelingen
- IPIS | 9 mars 2012
In november 2011 werd in het Vlaams Parlement een ontwerp van decreet ingediend ter vervanging van de federale wet van 5 augustus 1991 over in-, uit- en doorvoer van militair materieel, dit als gevolg van de regionalisering van de bevoegdheid inzake wapenhandel en van de Europese ICT-richtlijn die in mei 2009 goedgekeurd werd door de Raad en het Europees Parlement. Amnesty International toetste di
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Study on the development of a framework for improving end-use and end-user control systems
- Brian Wood, Peter Danssaert | 16 février 2012
(UNODA Occasional Papers, No. 21, December 2011) Already, in 2002, the Security Council called upon States to establish an effective national end-user certificate system and to study the feasibility, as appropriate, of developing such a system at the regional and global levels, as well as information exchange and verification mechanisms. This study assesses existing practices regarding end-user ce
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Transparency and Accountability. Monitoring and Reporting Methods Under An Arms Trade Treaty
- Peter Danssaert, Sergio Finardi | 8 février 2012
Without an understanding of the existing practices of States regarding their commonly agreed standards for the monitoring and reporting of their international transfers of conventional arms, it will be very difficult to draft many of the basic provisions of the Treaty to ensure compliance and enforcement. This report therefore seeks to clarify and discuss existing terminology and reporting practic
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A Taxonomy of Non-State Armed Actors in the Central African Republic (2012)
- Jasper Bauters | 2 janvier 2012
This report hopes to provide an overview of how the Central African Republic got to where it is now, as well as to present the means to further our understanding of the current situation. First a genealogy of the current situation is provided, which is presented in the form of a narrative literature overview encompassing the postcolonial period. This is followed by a brief account on the main conf
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Annual Report 2011 IPIS
- IPIS | 31 décembre 2011
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Bisie. A one-year snapshot of the DRC’s principal cassiterite mine (2011)
- Filip Hilgert | 28 novembre 2011
Much has happened in the mining sector of Eastern DRC over the last year. President Kabila imposed a ban on all mining activities last fall, during which production fell considerably. As soon as the suspension was lifted in the spring of this year, the major global electronic companies stopped buying minerals from the region, provoking a de facto embargo on Congo’s minerals with detrimental effect
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Arms Transfers to the Middle East and North Africa: Lessons for an effective arms trade treaty
- Amnesty International, Peter Danssaert | 7 novembre 2011
The numerous unlawful killings and other gross human rights abuses committed in response to the mass protests and demands for change that have gripped the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region since late 2010 underscore, both vividly and tragically, the urgent need for the establishment and implementation of an effective global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). All across the region, government author
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Upstream Pilot Implementation of the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas
- IPIS | 1 novembre 2011
Baseline Report on the Supplement on Tin, Tantalum, and Tungsten IPIS executed the research for and the writing of this OECD report. The present baseline report is the first in a cycle of three reports on the implementation by upstream companies of the Supplement on Tin, Tantalum and Tungsten of the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and Hi