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International Action Network on Small Arms

International Action Network on Small Arms

The International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) is the global movement against gun violence - a network of 800 civil society organisations working in over 120 countries to stop the proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons

IANSA seeks to make people safer from gun violence by securing stronger regulation on guns in society and better controls on arms exports. It represents the voices of civil society on the international stage and in the UN process on small arms, drawing on the practical experience of its members to campaign for policies that will protect human security.

IANSA is composed of a wide range of organiaations concerned with small arms, including policy development organisations, national gun control groups, women's groups, research institutes, aid agencies, faith groups, survivors, human rights and community action organisations.

Members of the IANSA Women's Network are working to stop gun violence in the home, on the streets and on the battlefield. They are using UN Security Council Resolution 1325 to increase women's participation in disarmament processes and in the development of small arms policy and practice. They ensure that women's interests are served by these policies and campaign to break the link between violence and masculinity. The network produces a quarterly bulletin called Women at Work: Preventing Gun Violence.

IANSA Secretariat
Contact: Sarah Masters, Women's Network Coordinator Development House
56-64 Leonard Street London EC2A 4LT, United Kingdom
Tel: + 44 207 065 0870 · Fax: + 44 207 065 0871
sarah.masters@iansa.org
www.iansa.org

IANSA UN Office
Contact: Mark Marge, UN Liaison Officer
777 UN Plaza, #3E C/O Hague Appeal, New York, NY 10017
Tel: +1 646 257 4130 · +1 866 261 2174
mark.marge@iansa.org
www.iansa.org

Gun Violence: The Global Crisis

IANSA report 2007

A thousand people die every day by gunshots, and three times as many are severely injured. Spinal cords severed, bones shattered, families destroyed, hearts broken. If the death, injury and disability resulting from small arms were categorised as a disease, we would view it as an epidemic. As a man-made vector of injury, guns are manifestly bad for human health. No country is immune.

Gun Violence: The Global Crisis [PDF]

The Impact of Guns on Women's Lives

Control Arms, March 2005

There are estimated to be nearly 650 million small arms in the world today. Nearly 60 per cent of them are in the hands of private individuals - most of them men. And the vast majority of those who make, sell, buy, own, use or misuse small arms are men. What does this mean for the world's women and girls?