This background paper aims to give Friends an overview of the “Geneva Declaration” process, and of QUNO’s involvement in it. This process seeks to highlight the links between armed violence and development, and to focus international attention on the reasons for which there is a demand for small arms and light weapons, rather than focusing, as is traditionally the case, on controlling the supply and transfer of small arms and light weapons.
Plastic Money: Turning Off the Subsidies Tap – A Stocktake of Plastic Subsidies in the INC and Related International Frameworks
This QUNO paper, authored by international trade lawyer Amy Porges, presents a detailed factual stocktake of how subsidies to plastic production have been addressed throughout the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) process to develop an international...