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Every year, billions of dollars in weapons and other military equipment is shipped across the globe. Explore this trade in our new interactive map.

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Special Report: Weapons trade

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Interactive: who supplies and receives arms?

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Arms conference puts trillion-dollar industry under the spotlight

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Climate change is killing us — in more ways than one

Many elections, many consequences

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Map: who supplies and receives arms?

Special Report: Weapons trade

Can the ATT take any lessons from the new EU dual-use Regulation?

UN Arms Trade Treaty’s difficult first decade

How compromise unravelled the UN Arms Trade Treaty’s promise

The advocacy groups working to bring the Arms Trade Treaty to life

United Nations arms treaty an example, not an answer

Arms Trade Treaty at risk of irrelevance

Interactive: who supplies and receives arms?

What jetskis, horses and gun-toting leaders have to do with international peace

Arms conference puts trillion-dollar industry under the spotlight

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