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| 26 October |
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Sources: 'Deaths by Firearms in Brazil 1979-2003' (UNESCO 2006); 'Caem as mortes por arma de fogo' (Ministério da Saúde 2007).
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Brazil's gun laws saved 24,000 lives: report
Brazil's gun death rate has dropped 18% following the introduction of a new gun law in 2003, according to a joint study by the Ministries of Health and Justice. The Disarmament Statute was enacted in 2003, and by 2006 the gun death rate had dropped from 22 to 18 deaths per 100 000 people each year.
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| 22 October |
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From left: Anna Macdonald (Oxfam), President Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia, Rebecca Peters (IANSA) and Valerie Yankey-Wayne (IANSA).
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IANSA meets Liberian President at the UN
The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, met with an IANSA delegation during the First Committee of the UN General Assembly on 17 October. They discussed last week’s report on the cost of armed conflict in Africa, as well as the work of the IANSA Women’s Network. On the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), President Johnson-Sirleaf said: ‘You can count on me and on my government to keep working until we get this essential treaty in place.’
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| 12 October |
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Conflicts in Angola (pictured), 1990 - 2003, cost $11billion according to the report.
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Conflict cost Africa $300 billion since 1990
The cost of conflict on African development was approximately $300 billion between 1990 and 2005, according to new research by Oxfam International, IANSA and Saferworld. This is equal to the amount of money Africa received in international aid from major donors during the same period.
The study Africa’s Missing Billions is the first time analysts have estimated the overall effects of conflict on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) across the continent. It comes as diplomats from around the world arrive at the United Nations to discuss an Arms Trade Treaty.
Click here to read the press release.
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| 5 October |
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Tomas Damnjanovic photographed recently at a party in his honour in Belgrade
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Arms embargo buster hired by the US DoD
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have created new opportunities for arms brokers and traffickers who have previously violated UN sanctions, according to a new report by the South Eastern and Eastern Europe Clearinghouse for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SEESAC).
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