Chapter 24 Web links

The Weapons Trade

http://www.sipri.org The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) compiles the most reliable information concerning conventional arms transfers.

http://www.smallarmssurvey.org The Small Arms Survey website provides the latest research on the global small arms trade.

http://www.un.org/disarmament The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs offers information regarding international efforts to discuss, manage, and solve global arms trade problems.

https://www.un.org/disarmament/convarms/att/     The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs has a website dedicated to the Arms Trade Treaty, which entered into force in late 2014.

http://www.un.org/disarmament/convarms/Register The United Nations Register of Conventional Arms catalogues information regarding the transfer of defence and military items as reported by individual countries.

http://www.controlarms.org The Control Arms Campaign is a network of non-governmental organizations focused on the adoption of a global Arms Trade Treaty.

http://icbl.org/en-gb/home.aspx   The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) is an organization that campaigns against landmines and champions the international Mine Ban Treaty of 1997.

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