“Right now hundreds of thousands of people are suffering because of an unregulated arms trade. This year for the first time we have the opportunity to create a treaty that would ensure this deadly trade is properly controlled.”
“Millions of people are being killed, injured, raped, repressed and forced to flee their homes every year by perpetrators of serious human rights abuses and war crimes using a wide range of arms supplied by irresponsible traders and governments. Health, education and other services are being denied and destroyed.
The world needs a strong Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) with rules to protect human rights, so that if any type of arms to be exported to another country will probably contribute to serious human rights abuses or war crimes, then governments concerned must stop those supplies.”
http://www.amnesty.ca/iwriteforjustice/take_action.php?actionid=856&type=Internal
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