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[Published: Friday August 19 2016]

SIPRI expands its Arms Trade Treaty database to include Latin America and the Caribbean

Stockholm, 19 August. - (ANA) - On the eve of the second Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) Conference of States Parties, due to take place in Geneva on 22–26 August, SIPRI is proud to announce that it is expanding and improving its website for mapping ATT-relevant cooperation and assistance activities.

The website contains an activity database of information about ATT-relevant cooperation and assistance activities in Sub-Saharan Africa during 2011–15, and this will be expanded to include activities in Latin America and the Caribbean during 2012–16. The expansion will be carried out by SIPRI in collaboration with the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC) and will be funded by the UN Trust Facility Supporting Cooperation on Arms Regulation (UNSCAR).

In addition, SIPRI has recently carried out the following improvements to the website:

Additional ATT-relevant cooperation and assistance activities involving states in Sub-Saharan Africa in the first half of 2016 have been added to the activities database.

A new function has been added allowing users to submit information about cooperation and assistance activities that they have carried out for inclusion in the database.

The document database—containing guidelines, regional instruments and other material that may be of assistance to States as they seek to implement the ATT—has been expanded.
Latin America and the Caribbean are home to around 9 per cent of the world’s population, but account for 27 per cent of the world’s recorded homicides, and thus the region has prioritized implementing arms transfer and small arms and light weapsons (SALW) control instruments such as the ATT.

The website has two longer-term objectives. First, it will help key stakeholders to build upon past projects, plan joint activities and avoid duplication of efforts. Second, it will help the ATT Secretariat to perform ‘the matching of offers and requests for assistance for Treaty implementation’ called for under the ATT.

The website was initially developed in 2015 by SIPRI and the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC) using funds supplied by the UK Foreign Office.

The project and website will be presented and discussed during a side-event at the Conference of States Parties. The side-event, ‘Arms transfer and SALW controls in Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent developments and lessons learned’ is being organized by SIPRI, UNLIREC and the government of Sweden, and will take place at 13.30 on Thursday 25 August. - (ANA)-

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