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Small Arms and Light Weapons
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Small Arms and Light Weapons
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British American Security Information Council (BASIC) is an independent research organization that analyzes government policies and promotes public awareness of defense, disarmament, military strategy and nuclear policies in order to foster informed debate.
The Bonn International Center for Conversion, "promotes and facilitates the processes whereby people, skills, technology, equipment, and financial and economic resources can be shifted away from the defense sector and applied to alternative civilian uses.
Control the Weapons Trade is part of the Canadian Ploughshares site. Comprehensive and well-ordered documents section. They also monitor news from Viva Rio, an organization campaigning for weapons control in Brazil.
The GCA is a network of organisations and individuals calling for the stricter control of firearms in South Africa. Currently over 200 diverse organisations support the Charter for Gun Control, including business, health, religious, women and youth organisations. Includes a page of statistics.
Site of the International Action Network on Small Arms - a global network of over 200 NGOs from different fields with a commitment to preventing the spread and misuse of small arms. Includes a Calendar of events on SALW.
Website of International Alert. Their objective is to identify and address the root causes of violence and contribute to the just and peaceful transformation of violent internal conflict. This includes issues relating to light weapons transfers and the impact of private military companies.
SmallArmsNet
SmallArmsNet is "an information portal for groups and individuals working to contain the proliferation of small arms and light weapons in Africa." SmallArmsNet is an initiative of the Arms Management Program at the Institue for Security Studies, a policy organization involved in the debate about defense and security in Africa.
Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers. Excellent site that provides a database of small arms transfers, with information on imports, exports and the black market in arms. Authorized arms exports by the US are especially interesting.
Quaker UN Office A founding member of IANSA, the American Friends Service Committee UN Office tackles disarmament issues of: small arms control, the UN Register of Conventional Arms, and a Code of Conduct for Arms Transfers Demobilization.
Reaching Critical Will is an initiative of WILPF that seeks to enhance the access, preparation and participation of non-governmental organisations in all disarmament fora.
Regional Centre for Strategic Studies
A Sri Lankan based NGO, the Regional Centere for Strategic Studies covers small arms issues in South Asia.
A UK based independent foreign affairs think-tank working to identify, develop and publicise more effective approaches to tackling and preventing armed conflicts. As a leading NGO of IANSA, has a comprehensive Arms Control Program and list of publications.
The Small Arms Survey is a research project located in Switzerland and supported by the Swiss government. Its database on the upcoming UN conference on small arms includes the voting records of states on UN small arms resolutions. It has a listing of all documents related to Small Arms here.UN Disarmament Resources and Publications
World Policy Institute's Arms Trade Resource Center.
Various publications in English, French and Spanish from the UN. Ordering information also. For UN Documents, see our Small Arms and Light Weapons Index.
UN Agencies Working on Small Arms
CASA
The UN Department of Disarmament Affairs Conventional Arms Branch Agency for Co-ordinating Action on Small Arms.UN Department for Disarmament Affairs Documents - Conventional Arms Branch
Page which links to recent UN documents on conventional and small arms. Somewhat difficult to navigate - simply listed in chronological order - however, a welcome collection. We have also placed some salient and more recent documents in the UN Documents section below. See also the UN Department of Disarmament Affairs.UNDP - Safe and Efficient Small Arms Collection and Destruction Programmes
This UNDP report addresses the logistics of disarmament and small arms control, including information gathering, weapons collection, and weapons destruction. See also the UNDP Small Arms Reduction Programme.UNICEF pages on Children in War
"In the armed conflicts of recent years, children have been not only unintended victims but deliberate targets of violence. The number of children who have been directly affected is enormous." Includes a link to Graça Machel's report on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children.United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
UNIDIR began work in 1980, after the GA called for a UN focal point for disarmament research in 1978. Works on various projects, such as Peace-building and Practical Disarmament in West Africa and Confidence-Building and Security Measures (CSBMs) in the Middle East.UN video presentation "Armed to the Teeth"
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