Arms transfer controls
Each week, conventional weapons kill thousands of people around the world.
Irresponsible arms exports have a massive human impact and can:
- contribute to internal repression
- undermine development
- facilitate human rights abuses
- fuel and sustain conflict
What we do
We work with partners and governments to strengthen arms transfer controls and to make governments more open and transparent about arms sales.
We are also working with partners to build support for an international Arms Trade Treaty. This would ensure common global standards for arms transfers and help prevent weapons falling into the wrong hands.
Read our latest paper on Uganda's arms transfers.
Reports and briefings
Uganda and international small arms transfers: Implementing UN Programme of Action commitments, July 2008
Moldova and international small arms transfers: Implementing UN Programme of Action commitments, July 2008
Good Conduct? Ten years of the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports, June 2008
Making it work: Monitoring and verifying implementation of an Arms Trade Treaty, May 2008
The Arms Trade Treaty, February 2008
Small arms and light weapons transfer controls to prevent diversion, August 2007
Indian helicopters for Myanmar: Making a mockery of embargoes?, July 2007
The Review of the Export Control Act (2002) June 2007
Measuring up? Transfer controls in the European Neighbourhood , May 2007
Find out more
Read more about our regional arms transfer controls work on Africa, Europe and Asia pages.
Find out more about our work on arms transfers in the UK and Europe
Contact
Roy Isbister
Team Leader
News
- Supporting security in Bangladesh
- Saferworld works with the police and local communities in Bangladesh to improve safety and security.
- Saferworld annual review
- In November Saferworld published its annual review
- Actvities October 2008
- Download Saferworld's activity report for October.
- UN First Committee vote on the Arms Trade Treaty
- The UN General Assembly's First Committee on Disarmament and International Security votes to work towards an Arms Trade Treaty
- An open letter to international donors in Georgia
- Saferworld and other NGOs send an open letter to the international Donors' Conference on Georgia being held in Brussels on 22nd October.