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35 A 1999 study of intimate femicide in Australia between 1989 and 1998 shows that guns were<br />
used in 23.3 per cent of cases, with knives and sharp objects being used 36.6 per cent of the time.<br />
Mouzos, Jenny (1999), Femicide: The Killing of Women in Australia, 1989–1998, Australian Institute<br />
of Criminology, Canberra<br />
36 Mouzos, Jenny and Catherine Rushforth (2003), ‘Firearm related deaths in Australia, 1991–2001’,<br />
Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, Vol. 269, November, Australian Institute of<br />
Criminology, Canberra<br />
37 Richardson, Vigdor, Elizabeth and James Mercy (2002), ‘Disarming batterers: the impact of domestic<br />
violence firearm laws’, in Jens, L. and P. Cook (eds), Evaluating gun policy: Effects on crime<br />
and violence, Brookings Institution, Washington DC. However, the commission of a violence<br />
misdemeanour does not always result in the abuser’s guns being surrendered.<br />
38 In Bennett, O et al (eds.) (1995), Arms to Fight, Arms to Protect: Women Speak out about Conflict,<br />
Panos, London, p. 37<br />
39 Thusi, Thokozani (2004), ‘Learning from Sierra Leone’, Institute for Security Studies Monograph<br />
No. 98, chap. 3. Available at: www.iss.co.za/pubs/Monographs/No98/Chap3.htm<br />
40 These figures are reported in Mazurana, D. et al. (2002), ‘Girls in fighting forces and groups:<br />
Their recruitment, participation, demobilization and reintegration’, Peace and Conflict, Vol. 8,<br />
Issue 2, pp. 97–123. A more recent study notes that ‘the number of women combatants has not<br />
been tallied’ and these figures could not be supplied by the National Commission on DDR. See<br />
Miller, Derek and Daniel Ladouceur (2005), From research to roadmap: Learning from the Arms<br />
for Development Initiative in Sierra Leone, UNDP and UNIDIR, Geneva, draft copy<br />
41 Denov, Myriam and Richard Maclure, ‘Girls in Armed Conflict in Sierra Leone: Victimization,<br />
Participation and Resistance’, in the forthcoming UN University and Swisspeace book on gender<br />
perspectives on small arms and light weapons availability and misuse; See also Mazurana, Dyan<br />
and Khristopher Carlson (2004), From Combat to Community: Women and Girls of Sierra Leone,<br />
Women Waging Peace, Washington, DC; and Farr, Vanessa (forthcoming), DDR and Women<br />
Combatants in Sierra Leone<br />
42 Denov, M., and Maclure R. (in press), ‘Girls and Small Arms in Sierra Leone: Experiences, Implications,<br />
and Strategies for Demobilization and Reintegration’, in A. Schnabel & V. Farr, eds.,<br />
Gender Perspectives on Small Arms and Light Weapons, Tokyo: United Nations University Press<br />
43 Email from Comfort Lamptey, Gender Advisor, UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations,<br />
22 February 2007<br />
44 UN News Centre, New York, 20 October 2004<br />
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