UN Chronicle E-Alert: SMALL ARMS

On Monday, 7 July, the First Biennial Meeting of States on the Implementation of the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons begins in New York. Small arms and light weapons are a leading cause of over half a million deaths per year, including some 300,000 in armed conflict and 200,000 from homicides and suicides. Here are some recent articles from the UN Chronicle regarding small arms, along with selected features from previous years.

Issue 2, 2003
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2003/issue2/0203p57.html">The Chronicle Interview"
    Ibrahima E. Sall, Director of PCASED, notes that "the 'weaponization' of society
    fuels further cycles of violence, despair and, ultimately, State collapse".
    
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2003/issue2/0203p59.html">DisarmamentWatch: Certainly as Dangerous as a Cigarette"
    by Luis Alfonso de Alba, Deputy Permanent Representative of Mexico
    to the United Nations
    
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2003/issue2/0203p54.html">Face to Face with Former Child Soldiers-and Hope: Messenger of Peace Michael Douglas Visits Sierra Leone"
    by Yvonne Acosta, Coordinator, UN Messenger of Peace Programme
    
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2003/issue2/0203p56.html">'What's Going On?': United Nations Screens TV Series Illuminating Worldwide Child Issues"
    by Darrell Dela Rosa
    
Issue 4, 2001
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2001/issue4/0104p34.html">A Call Against Arms: The Small Arms Conference"
    
Issue 1, 2001
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2001/issue1/0101p14.htm">Can Sources of Small Arms and Light Weapons Be Traced?"
    by Jenö C. A. Staehelin, Permanent Observer of the Permanent
    Observer Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations
        
Issue 1, 2000
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2000/issue1/0100p24.htm">Armed to the Teeth:One Light Weapon for Every Twelfth Person"
    by Markus Balser
        
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