Site Additions: February 2007

Site Additions : February 2007

23 February

Public Awareness Photo 72

Cambodia: gun incidents dropped in 2006

Research by Cambodia’s Working Group for Weapons Reduction (WGWR) has found a 17.5% drop in gun incidents in 2006 compared to the previous year. The research, based on media reporting, found 620 incidents in 2006, down from 752 reported in 2005. Most of these were robberies committed with handguns.

WGWR has attributed the drop in gun violence to improvement of national gun laws and the implementation of related arms control strategies. In 2005 Cambodia's gun law was revised, strictly limiting civilian ownership of guns. Cambodian NGOs, including IANSA member WGWR, have worked to raise public awareness and develop strategies to reduce gun ownership and incidents of gun violence throughout the country.

WGWR press release on gun incidents in 2006

Background: WGWR press release on the number of small arms in Cambodia

Kingdom of Cambodia Law on the Management of Weapons, Explosives and Ammunition

16 February

People's Consultation on the ATT launched

Following a decision last year by the majority of the world's governments at the UN to start work on an Arms Trade Treaty, Control Arms has launched a major effort to involve civil society and ordinary people in the treaty development process.

The People's Consultation is an ambitious project that will run simultaneously with the UN Secretary-General's collection of governments' views on the feasibility, scope and parameters of the proposed treaty. People's Consultations will be held in some 40 countries around the world. The consultations will ultimately feed into the political process when civil society organisations present reports on the consultations to their governments.

Job Opening: Field researcher at the Institute for Security Studies

The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) is seeking four field researchers for its Organised Crime and Money Laundering Programme in Southern Africa. The UN Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC) is seeking an international consultant for a three-month contract with its disarmament and peacebuilding program in West Africa. The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD Centre) is seeking a Project Manager to develop the centre's program in Asia; the post is Singapore-based.

9 February

UNIDIR reports on UN Programme of Action

Around $US660 million was spent on small arms control in the first five years of the UN Programme of Action (PoA), according to a new report from the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). This money has funded over 600 activities in 94 countries as part of the implementation of the PoA.

Introduction to Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration (DDR)

The Monterey Institute of International Studies will run an introductory course on disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) in California, 3-20 May 2007. The deadline for applications is 30 March 2007.