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Gender-Based Violence to be Focus of Arms Trade Conference

Lisa Schlein

   GENEVA - Efforts to regulate the international export of weapons to
   lessen gender-based violence will be a focus next week of the U.N.
   Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty. More than 500 delegates from over
   100 countries are expected to attend the meeting in Geneva.

   The arms trade treaty, which regulates trade in conventional arms and
   seeks to eradicate the illicit trade in those weapons, took effect on
   December 24, 2014. It has been ratified by 104 countries.

   Although the treaty takes gender into account as a risk factor,
   officials note there has not been a single case of denial of an arms
   export license purely based on gender.
   

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