We are half-way through the Third Review Conference (RevCon3) of the UN Program of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons celebrated at the UN Headquarters in New York 18-29 June 2018. During the first week, member states provided their views and gave statements on their priorities and commitments to prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit […]
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Can the RevCon3 deliver a GENDER-sensitive outcome?
This week at the UN in New York: RevCon3 on the Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons
Starting today at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Third Review Conference will evaluate progress made in 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 and its International Tracing Instrument (ITI). Erly Muñoz, Secretary of the Pacific […]
ATT CSP3
PSAAG and the CAVR took an active role in this year’s Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty (CSP3), which brought together states, UN bodies and civil society, to discuss how the ATT could better be implemented and how more lives could be saved. This was a crucial time for the Pacific, as […]
Reducing the Vulnerability of Pacific States to Armed Violence
The Centre for Armed Violence Reduction (CAVR), the Secretariat of PSAAG, is funded by the UN Trust Facility Supporting Cooperation on Arms Regulation (UNSCAR) to design and manage a two-year project focusing on the implementation of international arms control standards in the Pacific. Although by and large this region has avoided the large-scale armed violence […]