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The Arms Trade Treaty: Getting to Negotiations
By Ray Acheson, Reaching Critical Will, WILPF, 13 February 2012
The
global arms trade is now valued at over 50 billion USD per year and global
military spending as a whole reached 1.6 trillion USD in 2010.
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Women's International League for
Peace & Freedom - WILPF
MILITARY SPENDING VS. GENDER
EQUALITY - YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!
"In 2008 the world’s military
expenditure was estimated to be US$ 1,464 billion USD or 217 USD per capita.
Funding gender equality, as set out in the Millennium Development Goals, costs
less than 20 percent of military spending."
