Haitians endeavour to restore peace, democracy, and public security after a three year crisis that began to subside with the 2006 elections. This dossier documents examples of the struggle to consolidate human rights in the nation and shed light on a better future awaiting Haitians.
Brazil's arms control law, known as the 'Disarmament Statute', entered into force December of 2003, it regulates the manufacture, registration, possession and transportation of firearms and ammunition.
An estimated 300,000 child soldiers around the world came out of invisibility with Graça Machel’s 1996 UN study, the “Impact of armed conflict on children”. The international community has since then taken successive steps to bring them under the rule of international law.
There are today 600 million small arms and light weapons. 8 million more are produced every year. The lack of controls over the international transference of firearms means they are absorbed and deployed in conflicts, repression, crimes and human rights abuses.
In 2001, the United Nations held the first global conference on the issue of small arms proliferation. The result of which was the creation of the Program of Action, a non-binding global agreement to prevent, combat and eliminate all aspects of illegal trafficking in small arms and light weapons.
