Fatal Freight: Ships, Guns and Human Rights Abuses
June 12, 2017TransArms and IPIS undertook a thorough research of the responsibilities of states and companies involved in the transfer of military equipment by sea under customary international law. The maritime transport is by far the main modality for the transfers of military equipment and commodities. The report considers cases of irresponsible shipments of arms and military commodities to countries with
Carburante Usa ai jet israeliani
August 4, 2014Download in pdf or open with issuu reader. http://issuu.com/ipisresearch/docs/carburante_usa_ai_jet_israeliani
Supply Chains and Transport Corridors in East Africa
June 1, 2014Transport infrastructure plays a key role in boosting a country or region’s economic development. IPIS and TransArms have ascertained on several occasions that the underdevelopment or degeneration of transport infrastructure is a problematic issue across a number of African countries and regions. This report analyses the current logistics situation in Eastern Africa, and the logistic challenges fa
Ambushed in Bangkok? The U.N. Panel on North Korea and the case of the IL-76 “4L-AWA”
November 19, 2013This new IPIS/Transarms report explains why the conclusion of the latest United Nations report on North Korea sanctions about an arms flight grounded in Thailand is not supported by facts, but based on a misalliance of wrong and misleading information gleaned both about the cargo aircraft. its flight and the entities involved, together with erroneous interpretations of standard aviation practices
The Arms Trade Treaty: Building a Path to Disarmament
March 9, 2013The goal of this article is to examine and suggest proposals that could enhance the role of the international Arms Trade Treaty—presently in discussion at the United Nations—in the regulation of the international arms trade and in addressing the role of the legal trade in: a) providing the bulk of the arms used in armed conflicts, armed violence and human rights abuses; b) the excessive arming of
Pinocchio Ltd. The NRA and its corporate partners: US shipments of small arms ammunition by sea
March 5, 2013The 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
A Code of Conduct for Arms Transport by Air. Transport Services under an Arms Trade Treaty Series
August 12, 2012This 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
Rough Seas. Maritime Transport and Arms Shipments
July 6, 2012As 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
Transparency and Accountability. Monitoring and Reporting Methods Under An Arms Trade Treaty
February 8, 2012Without 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
The Arms Flyers. Commercial Aviation, Human Rights, and the Business of War and Arms
June 30, 2011In the last decades, the “business of war” has attracted thousands of civilian transport and logistics companies, especially in the aviation sector. State and non-State actors engaged in armed conflicts or in military operations that require substantial logistic support have increasingly resorted to the services of civilian transport operators to fulfill their transport and logistics needs. For ai
The Karamoja Cluster of eastern Africa: Arms transfers and their repercussions on communal security perceptions
December 31, 2010Nomadic peoples are often, if not universally, perceived as a problem by the governments of the nation states who have responsibility for them; this is particularly so in the case of the three nations with which this report is concerned, viz: Kenya, Uganda and (southern) Sudan. The pastoralist societies within the Karamajong cluster have been unable to adequately defend themselves politically agai
Mapping the Labyrinth: more on the strange weapons flight of 4L-AWA
October 1, 2010This research report is the third in a series about the case of a IL-76 aircraft used for an apparently clandestine arms flight in provenance from Pyongyang – in contravention of the United Nations arms embargo on North Korea -, which was impounded by Thai authorities during a technical stop in Bangkok December 12, 2009. Two previous research reports on this unusual case were published by IPIS and
From deceit to discovery: The strange flight of 4L-AWA (update)
February 9, 2010A joint IPIS/Transarms publication. Download in pdf or open with issuu reader. http://issuu.com/ipisresearch/docs/from_deceit_to_discovery-_the_stran_36e12e3d87b0d9
Cieli Neri d’Africa
June 23, 2009Download in pdf or open with issuu reader. http://issuu.com/ipisresearch/docs/20090623_ilmanifesto
Un cargo di morte
January 20, 2009Download in pdf or open with issuu reader. http://issuu.com/ipisresearch/docs/20090120_ilmanifesto
Tirana-Kabul, e bufera sulla Rice
June 24, 2008Il dipartimento di stato Usa nella bufera: nascosto al Congresso il trasferimento di tonnellate di munizioni dall’Albania all’Afghanistan, in violazione delle leggi statunitensi. Le pessime condizioni dell’arsenale non preoccupano gli americani: a morire a causa di armamenti difettosi saranno solo i soldati di Kabul. Download in pdf or open with issuu reader. http://issuu.com/ipisresearch/docs/sta
