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Subject: Launch of the Small Arms Survey 2015: Weapons and the World
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Launch of the *Small Arms Survey 2015: Weapons and the World*
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*Business as usual for small arms exports to ‘Arab Spring’ states*
*Important exporters continue to supply governments and non-state groups*
The armed violence and political instability associated with the ‘Arab
Spring’ have not led to significant changes in the policies or practices of
countries exporting small arms and light weapons to the governments of
Egypt, Libya, or Syria since 2011, finds the *Small Arms Survey 2015:
Weapons and the World*. The study also reveals that the emergence of
Islamic State has convinced many exporters to provide small arms to
non-state armed groups in the region, despite heightened risks of weapons
diversion and misuse.
‘Our evidence shows that important exporting states continue to send small
arms to Egypt, Libya, and Syria, including non-state armed groups there,
despite the high risk of diversion and misuse,’ said Keith Krause,
Programme Director of the Small Arms Survey. He added that ‘efforts by some
countries to rein in supplies to specific “Arab Spring” states have been
circumvented by others’.
The *Small Arms Survey 2015* also finds that insurgents in northern Mali
are better armed than they were a decade ago, including with larger-calibre
weapons. Jihadist groups have obtained man-portable air defence systems,
which pose a serious and direct threat to civilian and military aircraft.
Although they appear to have obtained most of the weapons from Malian army
stockpiles, they have also obtained larger-calibre weapons from
post-Qaddafi Libyan stockpiles.
Elsewhere in Africa, commercial poachers and armed groups are bringing
increased firepower and organization to the lucrative trade in elephant
ivory and rhino horn, and some state security forces are responding with
aggressive ‘shoot-to-kill’ strategies and military style weapons. The
escalation comes as armed groups have devastated elephant herds in Central
Africa. But the *Survey* finds that militarized anti-poaching initiatives
do not always lead to reductions in poaching rates; aggressive law
enforcement efforts are difficult to sustain and fund—and can put civilians
at risk.
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news from the Survey:
Small Arms Survey 2014: Women and Guns - full book onlin
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Event: 01.06.2015 - Women & armed violence
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Videos: 'Every Body Counts'
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Guided Mortar Systems
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Global Burden of Armed Violence 2015
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Among the other 2015 *Survey* findings:
- In 2012, the top exporters of small arms and light weapons (those with
annual exports of at least USD 100 million), according to available customs
data from the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN
Comtrade), were (in descending order) the United States, Italy, Germany,
Brazil, Austria, South Korea, the Russian Federation, China, Belgium, the
Czech Republic, Turkey, Norway, and Japan. The top importers (those with
annual imports of at least USD 100 million) were (in descending order) the
United States, Canada, Germany, Australia, France, the United Kingdom,
Thailand, and Indonesia.
- Focused military operations and the UN’s demobilization programme,
among other interventions, broke the internal cohesion of the rebel group
Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda–Forces Combattantes Abacunzi
(FDLR–FOCA) and accelerated its decline. But the remaining force has gone
into hiding by mingling with the civilian population, putting the latter at
risk in the event of further military attacks.
- Ammunition stockpile management remains weak in much of South-east
Europe, where some 10 per cent of all globally recorded incidents of
unplanned explosions at munitions sites have occurred.
- The use of ‘floating armouries’ has become commonplace among maritime
private security transiting the Indian Ocean, but there are no
international standards for floating armoury security or storage, and
armoury practices vary significantly, with commercial pressures creating
incentives for unsafe practices.
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Weapons and the World* is the Survey’s 15th annual global analysis of small
arms and armed violence.
The Small Arms Survey is a global centre of excellence whose mandate is to
generate impartial, evidence-based, and policy-relevant knowledge on all
aspects of small arms and armed violence. It is the principal international
source of expertise, information, and analysis on small arms and armed
violence issues, and acts as a resource for governments, policy-makers,
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