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Welcome to ConflictVoice. We are a group of independent bloggers and campaigners who focus on issues around the impact of conflict on the world's poorest people.

Catch up with great posts, pictures and videos- read about what happened during the Arms Trade Treaty negotiations in the UN in October 2009. We had ConflictVoice bloggers at the UN and across the globe highlighting what happened.

Now the UN has started work on the Arms Trade Treaty find out what it should contain. Watch our slideshow:

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20 May 10
The Arms Trade Treaty Primer « The International Interest

I’m ashamed to say this—but I will in the hopes that someone else out there was in my boat: I had no idea the international community is moving toward an Arms Trade Treaty regulating the proliferation of conventional weapons.

In Dec. 2006, the UNGA passed Resolution 61/89 which compelled the UN Secretary General to take the temperature of member states on moving toward an ATT and establishing a “geographically equitable” body of independent experts tasked with adumbrating principles for such a treaty. The results of that expert deliberation is expected to be ready for a Conference on an Arms Trade Treaty in 2012

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Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh