Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 7 p.m.
Joshua Rubenstein, The International Arms Trade
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addition to supervising Amnesty International’s grassroots organizing
in New England, New York, and New Jersey, Rubenstein has also played
a crucial role in AI projects in Israel, Russia, Uzbekistan, Canada,
Austria, and Mexico. He is an associate of Harvard University’s
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. He has written and/or
edited seven books, including The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust
in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories.
Rubenstein’s presentation
will examine the growing international arms trade. He writes, “In
recent years, the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France,
and Germany together accounted for an estimated
82 percent of all arms transfers. In addition, Brazil, India, Israel,
Singapore, South Africa, and South Korea now all have arms companies
in the world’s top 100. The selling of weapons is big business,
yet arms trade laws are so out of date that the sales of army helmets
are more regulated than the components assembled into deadly weapons.
What the world needs is an effective International Arms Trade Treaty
that will stop the flow of arms to those governments that commit
human rights abuses.”
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