Category Archives: light arms

• Prevención y reducción de la violencia armada – 2008

  

    More than 500,000 people die violently every year, most of them in the  the developing world, and the vast majority asa result of small arms and light weapons. Poorer countries are less safe than rich ones. Most of the world’scurrent armed conficts are raging in the global South, and morethan one-third of all countries mired in poverty have experiencedwar since the late 1990s. The same patterns hold true  or criminal violence:many poorer countries—and an alarming number of medium-incomestates—are exposed to high rates of homicide, armed assault, and victimization associated with collective or criminal violence. Armed Violence Prevention and Reduction – GD Background Paper Read more »