Conventional weapons pose a threat greater than people realise.

Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy 

has been working since 1995 to promote effective approaches to international security, disarmament and arms control. 

Arms Control Association 

An authoritative resource of comment on weapons systems and their limitation and reduction. 

Cluster bombs 2008 - various activities and proposals. 

A detailed overview of the abolition campaign. 

WILPF report on the recent Vienna Conference, and others.

Wellington Conference on cluster munitions. 

Download draft text of the Cluster Munition Convention (CMC).  

Cluster bombs and banks that finance them 

A 2007  PDF report "Explosive investments" from Netwerk Vlaanderen refers to ANZ as an Australian bank involved. 

Cluster Munitions Coalition 

Cluster bombs kill indiscriminately. The CMC is supporting a new international process for a new treaty to prohibit these weapons. Spreading our Values is part of the campaign. 

Control Arms 

Central to the global arms control campaign, Control Arms is a campaign jointly run by Amnesty International, IANSA and Oxfam. 

International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) 

The global network of civil society organisations working to stop the proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons. 

International Campaign to ban Landmines 

ICBL calls for the implementation of the ban mines treaty. 

Landmine Action 

Safety and security are fundamental to poverty alleviation. Addressing the problems of conventional weapons and armed violence is part of broader efforts to reduce poverty such as the millennium development goals. 

Medical objection to the arms trade 

The Lancet editorial sets out its problem with Reed-Elsevier publishers. 

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) 

Provides authoritative, researched reports on world weapons systems. 

United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs 

Conventional Arms Branch provides substantive support for the role of the United Nations in preventing the proliferation of conventional weapons. 

UN Disarmament Education 

Useful information and links to educational resources. 

In recent years, the UK, France and the US earned more income from arms exports to Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America than they provided in aid..