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 […]
A thousand people die every day by gunshots, and three times as many are severely injured. If the death, injury and disability resulting from small arms were categorized as a disease, we would view it as an epidemic. As a man-made vector of injury, guns are manifestly bad for human health. No country is immune.