Small arms & light weapons

Institutions

• UNIDIR - United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (English)

• UNDDA - United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs (English)

• United Nations Conventional Arms Branch (English)

• United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All its Aspects (English)

• UNICEF - The Silent Shout (English)

• United Nations- The Dag Hammarskjöld Library (English)

• UNDP - Small Arms Reduction Program (English)

• Bonn International Centre for Conversion (English)

• Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms - ATF, United States of America (English)

• Canadian Network for International Safety (English)

• Centro Nacional de Referencia sobre Violencia, Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences (Spanish)
  Contains database on mortality due to injuries in Colombia. National Injury Mortality Surveillance System of Colombia.

• Desarme.org (Portuguese/Spanish)
  Contains information on NGO activities mainly focusing on disarmament of small arms and light weapons mostly in Brazil.

• Emergency Life Support for Civilian War Victims (English)

• The Future of Children: Children and Gun Violence (English)

• Handicap International (English)

• International Action Network on Small Arms - IANSA (English)

• International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War - IPPNW (English)

• International Committee for the Red Cross - ICRC (English)

• International Campaign to Ban Landmines- ICBL (English)

• Institute for Studies in Religion - ISER (Portuguese/English)
  A non-governmental and non-profit organization that works for the strength of civil society and citizenship in Brazil, through the development of research projects in four areas: Violence, Public Safety and Human Rights; Environment; Civil Society Organizations; and Religion and Society.

• Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.

• Mine Action, United Nations (English)

• Monitoring the Proliferation of Small Arms, Federation of American Scientists (English)

• Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers (English)

• SAFER-Net (English)
  Information about the Small Arms Firearms Education and Research Network from Ryerson Polytechnic University and assistance from the Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy.

• Small Arms, Light Weapons: Japan's Role in Disarmament and Development Ministry of  Foreign Affairs, Japan (English)

• Small Arms Campaign, Human Rights Watch (English)

• Small Arms Survey - SAS. A Project of the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Switzaerland (French/English)

• Trauma Care Foundation, Norway (Norwegian/English)
  Tromsø mine victim resource centre.

• U.S. Arms Control & Disarmament Agency (English)

• World Council of Churches & Microdisarmament (English/French)

 Articles and Guides:

• Small Arms and Global Health (Revised version August, 2001), WHO (English)

• A 'New' Approach to the Small Arms Trade Arms Control Today, January/February 2001 A Scourge of Small Arms Article from Scientific American, June 2000 Armed conflict in the world today: A country by country review. Parker K, et. al. Humanitarian Law Project/International Educational Development and Parliamentary Human Rights group (UK), Spring, 2000  (English)

• Effect of a Ban on Carrying Firearms on Homicide Rates in 2 Colombian Cities  (English)
  Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

• Curbing the Illicit Trade in Small Arms: A Practical Route by Michael T. Klare US Foreign Policy Agenda, Vol. 6, No. 2 June 2001  (English)

• Small Arms and Light Weapons: Can they be controlled? by Herbert L. Calhoun US Foreign Policy Agenda, Vol. 6, No. 2 June 2001  (English)

• Small Arms, Big Impact: The Next Challenge of Disarmament by Michael Renner Worldwatch Institute Paper 137  (English)

• Tackling Small Arms and Light Weapons: A Practical Guide for Collection and Destruction  (English)