MISSING PIECES - Inter-Parliamentary Union
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<strong>MISSING</strong> <strong>PIECES</strong><br />
ESSENTIAL READING<br />
Amnesty <strong>Inter</strong>national (2006), Dead on time: Arms transportation, brokering<br />
and the threat to human rights. Available at: http://www.controlarms.<br />
org/downloads/FINALtransportersandbrokersREPORTpdf.pdf<br />
Frey, Barbara (2006), Prevention of Human Rights Violations Committed<br />
with Small Arms and Light Weapons, Final Report, Sub-Commission on the<br />
Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, A/HRC/Sub.1/58/27, 27 July.<br />
Available at: http://hrp.cla.umn.edu/documents/A%20HRC%20Sub.1%<br />
2058%2027.pdf<br />
—— (2004), Progress Report on the Prevention of Human Rights Violations<br />
Committed with Small Arms and Light Weapons, UN Sub-Commission on<br />
the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, E/CN.4/Sub.2/2004/37,<br />
21 June. Available at: www.umn.edu/humanrts/demo/smallarms2004-2.html<br />
www1.umn.edu/humanrts/demo/smallarms2004.html (addendum)<br />
—— (2003) Prevention of Human Rights Violations Committed with Small<br />
Arms and Light Weapons, Preliminary Report, UN Sub-Commission on<br />
the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, E/CN.4/Sub.2/2003/29,<br />
25 June. Available at: www1.umn.edu/humanrts/demo/smallarms2003.html<br />
IANSA, Amnesty <strong>Inter</strong>national, and Oxfam (2006), Arms without borders:<br />
Why a globalised trade needs global controls. Available in English and French<br />
at: www.controlarms.org<br />
—— (2003), Shattered Lives: The Case for Tough <strong>Inter</strong>national Arms Controls.<br />
Available at: www.controlarms.org<br />
Misol, Lisa (2004), ‘Weapons and war crimes: The complicity of arms<br />
suppliers’, Human Rights Watch World Report 2004, 26 January. Available<br />
at: www.hrworg/wr2k4/13.htm<br />
ENDNOTES<br />
1 The USA, the Russian Federation, and Brazil are some of the important exceptions.<br />
2 While transfers not approved by governments are clearly illicit, the international community<br />
has already articulated a wider definition of illicit transfer. The UN Disarmament Commission<br />
Guidelines on Conventional Arms Transfers have defined illicit trafficking as ‘that international<br />
trade in conventional arms, which is contrary to the laws of States and/or international law’. The<br />
PoA and the 2001 Conference were concerned with the ‘Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light<br />
Weapons in All Its Aspects’—a compromise wording that sought to encapsulate both definitions<br />
of ‘illicit’. Section 2, Article 11 of the PoA specifically calls on Member States to ‘assess applications<br />
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