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HARP-272 |
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A Catalogue of Failures G8: Arms Exports and Human Rights Violations |
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Amnesty International, AI INDEX: IOR 30/003/2003 19 May 2003 http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGIOR300032003?open&of=ENG-CAN |
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2003 |
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Keywords: |
enforcement, human rights, law, civil and political rights, security, Amnesty International, armed force, ammunition, liberty |
Abstract: |
Weak national control of the international transfer of “conventional” arms and security equipment contributes to the persistence of gross human rights violations. Of all the states with inadequate laws and administrative procedures to manage the export, transit and import of such arms – of which there are very many – none are more conspicuous than those states running the world’s largest industrialised economies – the Group of Eight. Amnesty International is opposed to the transfer of military, security, and police equipment, technology and expertise that can reasonably be assumed will contribute to human rights violations in the receiving country, and has consistently appealed to the G8 governments to abide by this principle which they have long recognised but never fully implemented. As this study shows, the governments of the G8 authorize unparalleled levels of arms and related assistance to the world’s armed forces and law enforcement agencies, but often to those who persistently commit gross human rights violations – equipping them, emboldening them and rewarding them. |
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Keywords: ammunition, Amnesty International, armed force, civil and political rights, enforcement, human rights, law, liberty, security