Resources tagged 'Children and Youth'

The Fourth Review Conference on the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons (RevCon4) emphasized the importance of inclusive approaches in advancing the UNPoA. This IANSA Factsheet focuses on the significant advancements and inclusive language on youth, adolescents and children in the RevCon4 outcome documents in contrast to the Third Review Conference on […]

Youth Mainstreaming refers to the deliberate inclusion of young people’s perspectives, needs, and participation in the processes of reducing small arms and light weapons proliferation and misuse. By ensuring that youth are actively involved in decision-making, awareness campaigns, and disarmament initiatives, the approach recognises the significant role youth can play in fostering peace and security. […]

IANSA’s informative booklet on abusive masculine behaviour and gender-based gun violence aims to help young people envision a different future. This interactive notebook contains definitions, key points, questions and activities, as well as space for the owner to write their own reflections on these problems and how best to tackle them. It asks questions like: […]

The International Action Network on Small Arms, in collaboration with the Human Centred Design Program at Algonquin College (Canada) and Gun Free South Africa, has developed the Aim for Change campaign, a youth-focused workshop to express their views on issues such as how gun violence affects them, masculine identities, peer pressure and role models. Gun […]

The sound of a handgun firing can travel about a mile. In Brooklyn, that means a single shot can reach thousands, even tens of thousands, of ears. You can’t tell the direction as the harsh sound waves are too distorted by the buildings to be in any way meaningful. In effect, in some parts of […]

IANSA has created this colouring book with the goal of teaching children from a young age to be who they are, that they don’t have to live by these stereotypes and that they can be themselves. What it means to “be a man” is learned in childhood, boys are often told by others around them […]

This Youth are the Future paper highlights the importance of involving youth in disarmament affairs and gun control now as young people are the future. In this paper offers 10 different UN resources and developments for youth to get involved in to end gun violence for a better future, such as the UNODA Youth4Disarmament Initiative, […]

Children and youth are vulnerable and innocent victims of gun violence. This 10 Facts about Children, Youth and Armed Violence Factsheet highlights ways that children and youth are directly and indirectly affected psychologically, emotionally and physically by armed violence. There are so many reasons for small arms control and protecting children and youth is one […]