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Joint Policy Paper on Gender and the ATT
The Arms Trade Treaty: Securing Women’s Rights and Gender Equality: A united call to explicitly include gender-based violence in the criteria (June 2012)
Four international organisations - Amnesty International, the Women's Network of the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA), the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and Religions for Peace - have united to support a strong Arms Trade Treaty and the inclusion of a specific gender criterion in the negotiated text. We launched a Joint Policy Paper on Gender and the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which outlined our position on why the ATT should require States not to allow an international transfer of conventional arms where there is a substantial risk that the arms under consideration are likely to be used to perpetrate or facilitate acts of gender-based violence, including rape and other forms of sexual violence. If the ATT is to be an effective legal instrument in regulating the international arms trade, recognition of the potential gendered impacts of international transfers must also be included.
Read the full paper here.
ENDORSE OUR CALL to support a strong ATT and the inclusion of a specific gender criterion in the negotiated text.
The criteria of an Arms Trade Treaty should require States not to authorize an international transfer of conventional arms where there is a substantial risk that the arms under consideration are likely to be used to perpetrate or facilitate acts of gender-based violence, including rape and other forms of sexual violence.
ENDORSE before July 2nd, click here. (Email: women@iansa.org)
SUPPORT OUR CALL by writing to your government directly to support a strong ATT and the inclusion of a specific gender criterion in the negotiated text.
The criteria of an Arms Trade Treaty should require States not to authorize an international transfer of conventional arms where there is a substantial risk that the arms under consideration are likely to be used to perpetrate or facilitate acts of gender-based violence, including rape and other forms of sexual violence.
WRITE TO YOUR GOVERNMENT. See attached template letter.
Reaching Critical Will, WILPF's disarmament project, will be monitoring the negotiation conference. As with the four preparatory committees leading up to these negotiations, RCW will be posting statements and documents online and will coordinate, edit, and contribute a daily newsletter, the ATT Monitor, and an online blog together with activists from Global Action to Prevent War, the Control Arms Campaign, and others.
To view WILPF's Position Paper and Toolkit on the ATT, see the attached documents. Further information about the ATT Negotiating Conference is available on the RCW website.
WILPF Resolution on the Arms Trade Treaty
WILPF Position paper on the Arm Trade Treaty
OTHER RESOURCES
Track the ATT Negotiations at the Control Arms website.
The Arms Trade Treaty: Why Women?, IANSA Women’s Network
Joined-Up Thinking: International Measures for Women’s Security and SALW Control (2010) By Cynthia Dehesa and Sarah Masters
Women peace and security: The role of an Arms Trade Treaty (2009)
The Arms Trade Treaty: An Important Opportunity to Prevent Gender Based Violence at Gunpoint (2012)
If you’re serious about the ‘Women, Peace and Security’ agenda, then prove it, IANSA Women’s Network
The Arms Trade Treaty: An Important Opportunity to Prevent Gender Based Violence at Gunpoint, IANSA Women’s Network, 4th Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) Preparatory Committee (13-17 February 2012)
Women’s Role in Implementing a Humanitarian Arms Trade Treaty
Open letter from the IANSA Women's Network: Women call for a strong Arms Trade Treaty