All Publications by Rachel Stohl

• Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations Set to Resume at United Nations

  This week in New York diplomats will meet to try to finally agree on some rules to govern the international arms trade. The much anticipated result would be a legally binding Arms

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• UN Committee Criticizes Obama Administration’s Use of Child Soldiers’ Waivers

  As the conflict in Mali wages on, reports from the frontlines reveal that the al-Qaeda linked Northern Mali rebels have conscripted child soldiers into their ranks. These reports

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• Presidential Inbox 2013: Prevent Trafficking in the Global Supply Chain

  Click here to view the complete Presidential Inbox series.

  The Challenge

  Propelled by the forces of globalization, transnational criminal activity and the related trafficking of

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• Obama Administration Again Misses Opportunity on Child Soldiers

  On September 28, after a week in which the President touted the tragedy of human slavery at the United Nations, the Obama administration released its Presidential Determination with

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• Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations Set to Begin

  Two weeks ago, US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton warned Russia about sales of attack helicopters to Syria, saying that the shipment of new weapons "will escalate the conflict

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• A Farewell to (Illicit) Arms: Addressing the Uncontrolled Trade of Small Arms in 2012

  International progress toward combating the uncontrolled trade in conventional arms, which is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and immeasurable human suffering every

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• The Arms Trade Treaty

  Click here to watch the ATT event hosted by Stimson.

  In July 2012, States will negotiate a legally binding Arms Trade Treaty to develop the highest possible common international

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• Libya’s Missing Weapons

  When ousted Libyan President Muammar Gadhafi was killed on October 20, 2011, many observers celebrated the end of his brutal regime. Yet the legacy of four decades in power will be

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• Viktor Bout, Small Arms, and “War Redefined”

  War Redefined, the capstone of a five-part series televised by PBS, challenges the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men's domain through incisive interviews with leading

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• Obama Administration Supports Child Soldier Use, Again

  Earlier this month, the Obama administration again disappointed human rights groups and the Hill when it decided to grant national security waivers to governments identified by the

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