International Initiatives on Brokering
Small Arms Survey Publications Targeting the Middlemen: Controlling Brokering Activities . In Small Arms Survey 2004: Rights at Risk . Oxford: Oxford University Press. Other Articles, Books, and Journals Regulating Arms Brokering: Taking Stock and Moving Forward the United Nations Process Regional Documents Convention on Small Arms and Light Weapons, Their Ammunition and Other Related Materials.
Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa. 2004. Nairobi Protocol for the Prevention, Control and Reduction of Small Arms and Light Weapons in the Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa .OSCE Principles On The Control Of Brokering In Small Arms And Light Weapons Best Practice Guide on National Control of Brokering Activities . In OSCE, Handbook of Best Practices on Small Arms and Light Weapons . Vienna.
European Union. 2003. Council Common Position of 23 June on the Control of Arms Brokering Draft Model Regulations for the Control of Brokers of Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition Elements for Effective Legislation on Arms Brokering Statement of Understanding on Arms Brokerage Protocol on the Control of Firearms, Ammunition and Other Related Materials in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Region OSCE Document on Small Arms and Light Weapons United Nations Documents Report of the Group of Governmental Experts established pursuant to General Assembly resolution 60/81 to consider further steps to enhance international cooperation in preventing, combating and eradicating illicit brokering in small arms and light weapons ".
A/RES/55/255 (8 June 2001). "Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime." (73 KB)
United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons (annex to document A/CONF.192/15).
A/CONF.192/2 (11 May 2001). "Report of the Group of Governmental Experts established pursuant to General Assembly resolution 54/54 V of 15 December 1999, entitled 'Small arms' [on brokering activities]." (109 KB)
A/54/258 (19 August 1999). "Report of the Group of Governmental Experts on Small Arms." (233 KB)
A/52/298 (27 August 1997). "Report of the Panel of Governmental Experts on Small Arms." (101 KB)
International Conferences
UN Broad-based consultations on further steps to enhance international cooperation in preventing, combating and eradicating illicit brokering in small arms and light weapons (SALW) . 1 July 2005, New York; 8 July 2005, Geneva. UNDDA Background Note.
United Nations Workshops on the Illicit Brokering of Small Arms and Light Weapons. New York, 31 May 2005 and Geneva, 3 June 2005.
ECOWAS – DNI/UK Conference on Combating Illicit Small Arms Brokering and Trafficking . 22 – 24 March 2004, Abuja, Nigeria.
Understanding and regulating arms brokering in Southern Africa. ISS Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa, 15-17 March 2004.
Dutch – Norwegian Initiative on Further Steps to Enhance International Co-operation in Preventing, Combating and Eradicating Illicit Brokering in Small Arms and Light Weapons . Oslo, 23-24 April 2003.
Further Resources European Union Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs (UN DDA) Wassenaar Arrangement United Nations Security Council, Sanctions Committees
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