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The proliferation of small arms in Uganda and its neighbouring territories is acknowledged by the Ugandan government as presenting a serious threat to the safety and security of its citizens.
14 July 2008
The need to strengthen controls over international arms transfers is an issue that ranks high on the international agenda.
8 July 2008
The UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons (PoA), agreed in 2001, remains the key international agreement on the illicit trade in, and misuse of, SALW.
28 August 2007
Russia is one of the world's largest small arms and light weapons (SALW) producers and one of the most active countries on the world SALW market.
2 April 2007
National parliaments have an important part to play with regard to managing international arms transfers.
31 March 2007
The UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons In All Its Aspects (PoA) was agreed in July 2001.
14 June 2006
This document is a revised version of one of the sections of the SALW Consultative Group Process' 'Food for Thought' Paper, published in July 2005, which outlined ideas on approaches to international shared understandings on two linked issue areas that are of key importance to the implementation and further development of the UN Programme of Action (PoA) on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW): - Restrictions on transfers of SALW to non-state actors (NSA) - Guidelines for national decisions on whether to authorise transfers of SALW These two issues are also closely linked in practice, not least because the criteria applied by states in deciding whether to authorise SALW transfers have a critical bearing on whether licences for transfers to NSAs are issued and also on the risks that legal arms transfers are illicitly diverted to NSAs.
26 January 2006
This paper examines the case for the withdrawal of US tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) from European soil on the following grounds: - The new strategic context makes redundant the original purpose of these weapons' deployment.
8 April 2004
Arms embargoes are one of the principal tools of states in seeking to prevent, limit and bring an end to armed conflict and human rights abuses.
26 July 2003
Although the end of the Cold War has significantly reduced the threat of nuclear war, it has also resulted in an increase in the number of local wars and civil conflicts throughout the world fought primarily with small arms and light weapons.
8 December 2001