{"id":8593,"date":"2012-04-12T12:48:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T19:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8593"},"modified":"2012-04-12T12:49:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T19:49:03","slug":"the-enablers-of-human-rights-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8593","title":{"rendered":"The Enablers of Human Rights Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Shocking Facts About Who\u2019s Arming Human Rights Abusers<\/strong><br \/>\n12 April, 2012 &#8211; Amnesty Interational<\/p>\n<p>Just six countries export a whopping 74 percent of the world\u2019s weapons, with the US making up 35 percent of the global total. <\/p>\n<p>Treaties regulate the global trade of many products \u2013 even bananas and dinosaur bones \u2013 but not guns and bullets. We need a strong Arms Trade Treaty that will stop tools of death from getting into the hands of people like Syria\u2019s Assad and Sudan\u2019s Bashir who continue to brutalize their people.<\/p>\n<p>In July, UN member countries will debate the adoption of a global Arms Trade Treaty.  Take action to make sure they make the right decision \u2014 to keep weapons out of the wrong hands!  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ATT-Infographic-US-version-e1334259913463.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ATT-Infographic-US-version-e1334259913463.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\" \" width=\"425\" height=\"1551\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8594\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.amnestyusa.org\/us\/shocking-facts-about-whos-arming-human-rights-abusers-infographic\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<br \/>\n<\/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%3D8593&amp;text=The+Enablers+of+Human+Rights+Abuse&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shocking Facts About Who\u2019s Arming Human Rights Abusers 12 April, 2012 &#8211; Amnesty Interational Just six countries export a whopping 74 percent of the world\u2019s weapons, with the US making up 35 percent of the global total. Treaties regulate the global trade of many products \u2013 even bananas and dinosaur bones \u2013 but not guns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8593#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":[2139],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593"}],"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=8593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8596,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593\/revisions\/8596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}