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2 See, for example, statement of Australia at BMS 2003. Available at: disarmament2.un.org/cab/
salw-2003/statements/States/Australia.pdf
3 See, in particular, statement of Belgium at BMS 2003, available at: disarmament2.un.org/cab/
salw-2003/statements/States/Belgium.pdf; and that of Mexico, available at: disarmament2.un.org/
cab/salw-2003/statements/States/Mexico.pdf
4 Small Arms Survey 2002: Counting the Human Cost, Oxford University Press, Oxford, p. 79
5 Small Arms Survey 2004, p. 175; Human Security Centre (2005), Human Security Report 2005:
War and Peace in the 21st Century, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Available at: http://www.
humansecurityreport.info/
6 Small Arms Survey 2004, p. 175
7 See, for example, Louise, Christopher (1996), The Social Impacts of Light Weapons Availability
and Proliferation, Discussion Paper, UN Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva, p. 2;
International Committee of the Red Cross (1999), Arms Availability and the Situation of Civilians
in Armed Conflict, ICRC, Geneva; Small Arms Survey (2001), Humanitarianism under Threat: The
Humanitarian Impacts of Small Arms and Light Weapons, Small Arms Survey, Geneva; Beasley,
Ryan, Cate Buchanan and Robert Muggah (2003), In the Line of Fire: Surveying the Perceptions
of Humanitarian and Development Personnel of the Impacts of Small Arms and Light Weapons,
Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and Small Arms Survey, Geneva; and Centre for Humanitarian
Dialogue (2003), Putting People First: Human Security Perspectives on Small Arms Availability and
Misuse, Geneva.
8 See, for example, Rothman, Emily et al. (2004), ‘Batterers’ use of guns to threaten intimate partners’,
Journal of the American Women’s Medical Association, Vol. 60, Issue 1.
9 World Health Organisation (2002), World Report on Violence and Health, WHO, Geneva, pp.
274–275
10 See, Farr, Vanessa and Kiflemariam Gebre-Wold (eds.) (2002), Gender Perspectives on Small
Arms and Light Weapons: Regional and International Concerns, BICC Brief No. 24, Bonn International
Centre for Conversion, Bonn; IANSA Women’s Network at: www.iansa.org/women;
and Amnesty International (2005), The Impact of Guns on Women’s Lives, Amnesty International,
Oxford.
11 In the US, juveniles (age 9–17) committed nearly 10 per cent of all crime involving guns that
were investigated in 1999; youth (age 18–24) committed another 34 per cent. Together, these age
groups accounted for 57 per cent of all gun homicides in the US in 1998. US Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms (2000), Crime Gun Trace Reports, 1999, Washington, DC, p. 3
12 See www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/suicideprevent/en/
13 Sources: Belarus and Colombia: UN Office on Drugs and Crime (2003), Surveys on Crime Trends
and the Operations of the Criminal Justice System at www.unodc.org/unodc/en/crime_cicp_surveys.
html; Ecuador and Venezuela: WHO Mortality Database (2003) at www.who.int/whosis/mort/
text/download.cfm?path=whosis,whsa,mort_download&language=english; Mexico: Mexican Secretary
of Health at www.cddhcu.gob.mx/cesop/boletines/no1/index.htm; South Africa: Crime
Information Analysis Centre, South African Police Services, Pretoria and Central Firearms
Register, SAPS, Pretoria (2002). Population figure from Census 2001: Census in brief (2003),
Statistics South Africa; US: US Department of Justice: Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics.
Population figures from the UN Population Division; Brazil: Mortality Information System of
the Ministry of Health (2003); Canada: Homicide in Canada Statistics, 2003. Canada’s population
2000–04 at www.members.shaw.ca/kcic1/population.html; Australia: Mouzos, Jenny and
Catherine Rushforth (2003), ‘Firearm related deaths in Australia, 1991–2001’, Trends and Issues in
Crime and Criminal Justice, Vol. 269, November, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra
at www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi2/tandi269.pdf. Mouzos and Rushforth give rates and numbers—the
population has been back-extrapolated from those; England and Wales: Crime in England
& Wales 2003/2004 UK National Statistics at www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=6. The Small
Arms Survey helped collect this information. Compiled May 2005, updated February 2007.
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