Blood at the Crossroads: Making the Case for an Arms Trade Treaty
February 5, 2008The world is reaching the crossroads where governments must decide which approach to take in order to control the increasingly globalised trade in conventional arms. If the current practice of allowing irresponsible transfers of military and security equipment and related items across borders is allowed to continue, millions more lives and livelihoods will be destroyed and the fundamental human ri
Sudan: Arms continuing to fuel serious human rights violations in Darfur
May 5, 2007This report describes the arming process and its effects on the people of Darfur and neighbouring eastern Chad, many of whom have been forcibly displaced. It provides details of violations of the United Nations arms embargo on Darfur that occurred during January to March 2007. Amongst other things, it shows how the Government of Sudan violates the UN arms embargo and disguises some of its military
Recent arms deliveries from the successor States of the former Yugoslavia
March 18, 2007This report presents the findings of the group of international experts commissioned by IPIS vzw to examine the current controls on weapons exports from the countries of former Yugoslavia, especially the Republic of Bosnia-Herzogovina and the Republic of Serbia. Download in pdf or open with issuu reader. http://issuu.com/ipisresearch/docs/20070319_recent_arms_deliveries_fro
Developing a Mechanism to prevent Illicit Brokering in Small Arms – Scope and Implications
November 9, 2006One of the consequences of the more global, differentiated and diverse arms trade is the increasing reliance of arms buyers and sellers on specialized services from persons or companies that act as intermediaries, or “middlemen”, to arrange arms transactions. Put simply, arms brokers are intermediaries who negotiate commercial and logistical arrangements to meet the requirements of buyers, sellers
Greed and guns. Uganda’s Role in the Rape of the Congo
July 22, 2006This report deals specifically with the recent Ugandan involvement in the military, political and economic affairs of its giant western neighbour, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has contributed to a pattern of serious human rights abuses of the Congolese people. To corroborate evidence and gather additional information on Uganda’s involvement in the Congolese conflict the authors of t
Dead on Time – arms transportation, brokering and the threat to human rights
March 2, 2006Growing state-sponsored out-sourcing and the increasing private mediation of international arms distribution and procurement is adding to the risk of arms being delivered, diverted and used for grave human rights violations. Yet current government efforts to improve the monitoring and regulation of such intermediate activities in the arms trade are weak and faltering. Download in pdf or open with
Democratic Republic of Congo: arming the east
July 2, 2005Amnesty International is concerned that, during the peace process in the DRC, military aid has been provided from agents close to the Rwanda, Uganda and the DRC governments to armed groups and militia in eastern DRC who have committed grave human rights abuses. This document presents only a partial picture of the trade in arms because this trade is characterized by extreme stealth. Peace in the Gr
Wapentrafieken in de regio van de grote meren: Tanzania
June 2, 2005Aan IPIS, vzw werd gevraagd een studie te maken over de problematiek van de illegale wapentrafieken in de regio van de grote meren, en de repercussies voor het Belgisch buitenlands beleid. Aansluitend bij de politieke actualiteit werd de kwestie van de licentie verstrekt door het Waals Gewest aan New Lachaussée voor de levering van een productielijn voor munitie in Tanzania als concreet voorbeeld
Arms flows in Eastern Congo: a report pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1533
December 2, 2004The All Parliamentary Group on the Great Lakes Region and Genocide Prevention has been closely monitoring events in the Great Lakes Region since 1998. In seeking to promote conflict resolution, APPG delegations have travelled on fact-finding missions to Burundi (2000); Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), (2001, 2003, 2004); Rwanda (2000, 2002,2004); Uganda (2004), and a series of reports have been
FN Herstal: licensed production, Study for Small Arms Survey
June 17, 2001The production of small arms is a big, and growing, business—at least in terms of the number of countries that produce them. Based on existing information, small arms are legally produced in more than 600 companies in at least 95 countries worldwide—even more if those countries in which illicit production takes place are included. Download in pdf or open with issuu reader. http://issuu.com/ipisres
Een kwarteeuw Timorees verzet (124)
June 17, 2000Het Oost-Timorese volk had het zich anders voorgesteld, de langverhoopte onafhankelijkheid die door Indonesië werd gedwarsboomd sinds Portugal zijn kolonie bij de Timorzee de vrijheid gaf. Een kwarteeuw heeft het nog geduurd en telkens weer werd het verzet in bloed gesmoord, onttrokken aan de ogen van een internationale gemeenschap die liever de andere kant uitkeek dan Indonesië voor het hoofd te
De 78 dagen van Kosovo (122)
June 17, 1999Eens te meer is het oorlog op de Balkan. Deze brochure bevat een chronologisch overzicht van het huidige conflict, vanaf de escalatiefase tot en met de bommencampagne van de NAVO. De auteur overloopt de kille werkelijkheid van 78 dagen van bombardement, de uittocht van de etnische Albanezen uit de provincie Kosovo, de rekbaarheid van het begrip ‘militair doelwit’, de onwrikbaarheid van de betrokke
