Innocent victims of conflict deserve protection from arms trade

The proposed global arms treaty that is being debated in the UN must put the world’s most vulnerable ahead of political or business interests, writes Colm O’Gorman

A rebel in the Central African Republic brandishes a machine-gun.

HOW many civilians need to be killed before we stop arming their killers? How many women must be raped, families forced from their homes, children put into armed combat, and prisoners tortured before we stop putting guns in the hands of war criminals and human rights abusers?