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- Dedicated websites
- NGOs working extensively on small arms
- United Nations activities relating to small arms
- United Nations Programme of Action and related conferences
- Reports of the UN Special Rapporteur, Barbara Frey
- Key reports on small arms and related issues
Control Arms Campaign
Global campaign calling for governments to toughen up controls on the arms
trade, jointly run by Oxfam, Amnesty International and the International Action
Network on Small Arms (IANSA). Gives overview of issues and updates on campaign
activities.
IANSA - International Action Network on Small Arms
Impressively up-to-date website - run by IANSA, a global network consisting of
700 partner agencies, and one of the partners of the Control Arms Campaign - on
all issues relating to small arms, with headlines, resource banks, and
activists' toolkits.
Small Arms Survey
An independent research project located at the
Graduate Institute of International Studies. Produces numerous publications on
small arms, including the renowned Small Arms Survey Yearbooks, which are
annual reviews of global smalls arms issues and
themes.
NISAT - The Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfer
Coalition of partner organisations - the International Peace Research Institute
(PRIO) in
SmallArmsNet.org - Arms Management in
Online information portal run by the Institute for Security Studies in
NGOs
working extensively on small arms Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
The Human Security and Small Arms Programme has
produced a number of seminal publications on issues such as approaches to
disarmament and the impact of armed violence on humanitarian operations and
personnel. Also publishes quarterly bulletin on gun violence aimed at the
development, humanitarian, human rights and health communities.
Small Arms Working Group
Alliance of US-based nongovernmental organisations working together to promote
change in US and international policies on small arms. Has produced particularly useful and succinct series of factsheets
on various issues relating to small arms.
Saferworld
Key areas of work include small arms and light weapons and arms transfer
control. Includes regular updates on small arms news and also has stable of
publications on the topic, including a number of national surveys.
Amnesty
International
A member of the Control Arms campaign, Amnesty has produced a number of publications
about the problem of small arms, an issue that ties in closely with its human
rights work.
Human Rights
Watch
Regularly releases statements on arms, and produces
related documents.
Oxfam
A member of the Control Arms campaign, Oxfam has a great deal of information
about the campaign to improve arms controls and has also produced a number of
publications in conjunction with its Control Arms' partners.
Project Ploughshares
Works extensively on small arms and has launched its own public awareness and
education campaign, Take Action to Control Small Arms.
Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
Research arms transfers and arms control measures.
Disarmament and the UNGeneral website of the UN on disarmament, includes
specific information about the Department for Disarmament Affairs, and the
Department's Conventional Arms Branch, the division dealing directly with small
arms.
United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
United Nations Programme of Action and related conferences Text of the
Programme of Action a number of publications in conjunction with its Control
Arms' partners.
Original UN Conference - 2001Website of the first UN Conference on the Illicit
Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, held July 2001.
First Biennial Meeting of States - 2003 Review of conference
by IANSAIANSA's assessment of the contributions made by the UN, governments and
NGOs.
Second Biennial Meeting of States - 2005
Website of the Second Biennial Meeting of States to Consider the Implementation
of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade
in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, held Jully 2005.
Review
Conference - 2006 Website of the 2006 Review Conference of
the UN Programme of Action.
Implementing the Programme of Action
- IANSA, 2003.
Examining Implementation of
the UN Programme of Action - IANSA and Biting the Bullet, 2005.
Reports of the UN Special Rapporteur, Barbara Frey
All of Barbara Frey's reports can be found online on the 'Small Arms and Light
Weapons' section of the
Who Takes the Bullet? The impact of small arms violence - Norwegian Church
Aid, 2005
Shattered Lives:
the case for tough international arms control - Control Arms, 2003
Putting People
First: Human Security Perspectives on Small Arms Availability and Misuse -
Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, 2003.
Putting Guns in their
Place: A resource pack for two years of action by humanitarian agencies -
Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, 2004.
Global database on arms transfers
The G8: global arms exporters
- failing to prevent irresponsible arms transfers --- Control Arms, 2005.
Conventional Arms
Transfers to Developing Nations, 1997-2004 - Congressional Research Service
Report, 2005.
Dead on Time: arms
transportation, brokering and the threat to human rights - Amnesty
International and TransArms, 2006.
The Arms
Fixers: Controlling the Brokers and Shipping Agents - BASIC, NISAT and PRIO,
2003.
Guns or Growth? Assessing the impact of arms sales on sustainable
development - Control Arms, 2004.
Securing
Development - UNDP, 2005.
"Development Held
Hostage": Assessing the Effects of Small Arms on Human Development - UNDP,
2002.
Why Fighting Crime can
Assist Development in Africa : Rule of Law and Protection of the Most
Vulnerable - UNODC, 2005
Humanitarianism Under
Threat: The Threat of Small Arms on Human Development -Small Arms Survey and
Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (Robert Muggah and Eric Berm an), 2001
The impact of guns on women's lives- Control Arms, 2005
Tageting Children: Small Arms and Children in Conflict - Rachel Stohl, Senior
Analyst, Center for Defense Information, 2002
Forgotten Casualties of War: Girls in armed conflict - Save the Children, 2005
The Impact of Conflict on Children - the role of small arms - Julia Freedson,
in Disarmament Forum, 2002
Neither War Nor
Peace: International comparisons of children and youth in organized armed
violence - Luke Downdney.
No Relief: Surveying the Effects of Gun Violence on Humanitarian and
Development Personnel - Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, 2005
There are also a large number of published reports on
the prevalence of small arms and/or the impact of gun-related violence in
different countries around the world. These can easily located by searching for
"small arms" and the country in question.
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