Resources / Publications

This report documents certain failures in some countries across world regions to properly dispose of and destroy excess small arms and light weapons (SALW), and their ammunition. It illustrates the different ways that excessive, poorly secured, weapons, especially firearms and ammunition, leak out into the hands of abusers and to those unauthorised to trade and […]

3D printing has since sparked innovation in the architectural, industrial design and biotechnology industries. Now, it has developed in areas that were previously thought to be only possible in realms of science fiction, such as the creation of low-cost prosthetic limbs for children in war-torn countries. While other technologies from the same era, such as […]

This brief answers the following questions: How do illicit flows of SALW undermine sustainable development? What can be done to prevent illicit flows of SALW undermining development? How can Implementing the PoA, the International Tracing Instrument and the UN Firearms Protocol help achieve the SDGs?

This brief offers a global overview of the small arms problem, the consequences of small arms trade and offers recommendations and solutions to ending gun violence. It provides information on important United Nations agreements on small arms and light weapons, such as the UNPoA, ITI, ATT, and the Firearms Protocol.

Armed violence and gun crime take many forms but one thing is clear – they are mostly committed with weapons: small arms and light weapons (SALW) and their corresponding ammunition, as well as homemade explosives and sharp instruments turned into weapons. Most countries are affected in some way by violence with small arms and light […]

This brief offers recommendations concerning the gaps in women’s participation in SALW processes. It offers insight on the following: 1. Need to improve governments’ understanding of the links between small arms control and issues of gender. Those links need to be reflected in legislation and other governmental processes 2. Women are underrepresented in small arms […]

Despite being disproportionately impacted by violence and conflict, women have been – and continue to be – underrepresented in nearly every area of the United Nations small arms process. This paper examines the direct and indirect impacts of gun violence on women and explains why it is crucial that women be equally included in all […]

Two major United Nations treaties govern illicit arms trade and trafficking since the early twenty-first century. The Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition (generally known as the Firearms Protocol (FP)), adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in May 2001, supplementing its parent instrument, the […]

A gendered approach is a central component for sustainable progress in the implementation of the UN Programme of Action (PoA). A gendered approach factors in the needs and capacities of men and women in the formulation of appropriate responses to small arms control. An inclusive approach will help provide fuller ownership of efforts to eradicate […]

A gender­ sensitive approach is not exclusively about women, but about analysing gender more broadly. This  approach factors the special needs and capacities of men and women, and boys and girls, in the formulation of  appropriate responses to issues of gender and SALW.  For example, global research has shown young men  suffer disproportionately from the […]