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Gender-Based Violence and the Arms Trade

In: Global Responsibility to Protect
Author:
Ray Acheson Director, Reaching Critical Will, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), New York, NY, USA, ray.acheson@wilpf.org

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08 May 2020
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This article explains gender-based violence (gbv) and the relationship between gbv and the international arms trade. It examines how governments and activists worked together to ensure that the Arms Trade Treaty included a legally binding provision to prevent gbv, and how this provision has been used—or not used—since the Treaty’s adoption in 2013. It also encourages states, arms producers, lawyers, and activists to work to ensure that human lives and wellbeing are prioritised over profits as an imperative to realising the att’s objective and purpose, and to ensuring respect for the rule of law and international law.

Title:
Gender-Based Violence and the Arms Trade
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/1875984X-01202002
Language:
English
Pages:
139–155
Keywords:
Arms Trade Treaty; Gender-Based Violence; international humanitarian law; international human rights law; war profiteering
In:
Global Responsibility to Protect
In:
Volume 12: Issue 2
Publisher:
Brill | Nijhoff
E-ISSN:
1875-984X
Print ISSN:
1875-9858
Subjects:
Human Rights, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, International Organizations, International Law

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