IASC Weekly (GVA) - Achieving a Comprehensive and Robust Arms Trade Treaty - the Role of Humanitarian Actors
Geneva
Meeting Documents
1. Achieving a Comprehensive and Robust Arms Trade Treaty - the Role of Humanitarian Actors
In July, Member States will gather in New York for the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty. Their aim is to adopt international, legally binding standards to govern the transfer of conventional weapons. The conference represents a fundamental opportunity to establish comprehensive and robust standards to prevent the transfer of weapons where there is a risk that the weapons will be used to to perpetrate serious violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law and undermine sustainable development. It is essential that States strive for a comprehensive ATT that will have a powerful impact in making people safer by reducing the human cost of inadequate controls on arms transfers. Humanitarian actors have an important role to play in advocating for such a treaty.
Panel
Anna Macdonald, Head of Arms Control Campaign, Oxfam GB Nathalie Weizmann, Legal Adviser, Arms Unit, ICRC Simon Bagshaw, Protection and Displacement Section, OCHA
Focus
The panellists will provide an overview of the ATT process to date and provide information on advocacy initiatives that are being planned in the lead up to the July conference which IASC members are encouraged to support.
2. AOB