Arms Trade Treaty Negotiating Conference I

The UN Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) met at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City from 2–27 July 2012. The Chair of the conference was Ambassador Roberto García Moritán from Argentina. The conference failed to adopt a treaty, but work on an ATT is not over. Read the ATT Monitor for details.

Reaching Critical Will resources

• Arms Trade Treaty Monitor
• Arms Trade Treaty Monitor: The Blog
• RCW/WILPF position paper on the ATT
• RCW/WILPF action toolkit on the ATT
• ArmsTreaty.org - database of government positions on the ATT created by RCW and Control Arms
• Joint Policy Paper on including gender-based violence in the ATT criteria
• Countries supporting gender-based violence in the ATT by 27 July 2012

Negotiating conference documents

• Statements
• Documents
• Side events calendar

Background

• First Preparatory Committee (July 2010)
• Second Preparatory Committee (February-March 2011)
• Third Preparatory Committee (July 2011)
• Fourth Preparatory Committee (February 2012)
• Background documents

Other resources

• Control Arms campaign
• UN Office for Disarmament Affairs