With hundreds of thousands of people being shot dead every year, governments must take urgent action to stop the flood of guns.
The 2001 Programme of Action (PoA), cornerstone of the UN process on small arms control, will be reviewed in June-July 2006 at the UN Small Arms Review Conference (RevCon).
The RevCon is a critical opportunity for the international community to develop comprehensive measures against small arms proliferation and misuse.
Prepared by the IANSA Secretariat, these ten short position papers offer policy recommendations to governments during the RevCon’s Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) in New York, 9-20 January 2006.
The papers cover key areas vital to preventing the suffering caused by the availability and misuse of small arms & light weapons:
1. Appropriate use of small arms by state officials
El uso adecuado de las armas pequeñas por parte de funcionarios del
Estado
2. Assisting survivors of small arms misuse
La asistencia a los supervivientes de actos producidos por el uso
indebido de armas pequeñas
3. Draining the existing pool of weapons
La eliminación del exceso de armas en las comunidades afectadas
4. Gender-specific action to prevent small arms violence
Acciones específicas de género para prevenir la violencia armada
en Français
5. Improving funding coordination
La mejora de la coordinación de la financiación
6. National regulation of small arms
La regulación de las armas pequeñas en el ámbito nacional
en Français
7. Reducing the demand for small arms
La reducción de la demanda de armas pequeñas
8. Regulating small arms brokering
La regulación del corretaje de armas pequeñas
en Français
9. Regulating international transfers of small arms
La regulación de las transferencias internacionales de armas pequeñas
en Français
10. Sustaining development through regulating small arms
Desarrollo sostenible y control de armas pequeñas
Each position paper includes an assessment of how its theme is relevant to the PoA, and what progress has been achieved since UN Member States agreed to the PoA commitments in 2001. Finally, the papers propose recommendations on how to clarify and elaborate these commitments.
Some UN Member States have also prepared thematic 'non-papers' for the PrepCom. Click here to read them.
|
