{"id":16875,"date":"2013-03-26T11:03:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T18:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=16875"},"modified":"2013-03-26T11:03:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T18:03:25","slug":"us-attempts-to-create-back-door-for-arms-trade-to-brutal-regimes-that-would-include-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=16875","title":{"rendered":"US attempts to create back-door for arms trade to brutal regimes that would include Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Is U.S. Trying To Gut Arms Trade Treaty?<\/strong><br \/>\nAmnesty International &#8211; 25 March, 2013 <\/p>\n<p>The US is trying to strip the Arms Trade Treaty of critical human rights protections.<\/p>\n<p>By Nate Smith, Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations Observer<\/p>\n<p>Late on Friday, the latest draft of the Arms Trade Treaty was shared publicly.  It\u2019s not looking good.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what it boils down to: Will world leaders take the necessary steps now to prevent sending weapons to countries where they will likely be used for torture, summary executions, and other human rights abuses?  Or will they allow business as usual and wait until even more staggering numbers of civilians have been killed until they finally decide to stop arms shipments to those who are targeting civilians?<\/p>\n<p>The second option is called the \u201cbody bag\u201d approach.  The US government is among those who actually think this is a good idea.  It wants to allow critical human rights protections to be kept out of the treaty. These would require countries to exercise some due diligence in making sure they aren\u2019t transferring weapons to places where they know they\u2019ll be used in extrajudicial executions, disappearances, or torture \u2013 a global \u201cbackground check\u201d for arms transfers. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.amnestyusa.org\/africa\/is-u-s-trying-to-gut-arms-trade-treaty\/\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D16875&amp;text=US+attempts+to+create+back-door+for+arms+trade+to+brutal+regimes+that+would+include+Bahrain&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is U.S. Trying To Gut Arms Trade Treaty? Amnesty International &#8211; 25 March, 2013 The US is trying to strip the Arms Trade Treaty of critical human rights protections. By Nate Smith, Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations Observer Late on Friday, the latest draft of the Arms Trade Treaty was shared publicly. It\u2019s not looking good. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=16875#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[1792],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16877,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16875\/revisions\/16877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}