Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms (CIFTA)
Testimony of Former OAS Ambassador Harriet Babbitt
I am pleased to have been asked to testify today on the Inter-American Convention on the Illicit Trafficking in Firearms. I currently serve as a special advisor to the U.S.-Mexico Bar Association and until recently chaired the American Bar Association’s Latin America rule of law program. Both the United States and Mexico are in need of enhanced mechanisms with which to face unprecedented levels of violence perpetrated with illegally obtained arms in the hands of Mexican drug cartels and organized criminal gangs. I am here today to urge ratification by the Senate of what can be an important tool in…
