United Nations Program of Action Against Small Arms Proliferation

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.

Since that first conference, four more meetings have been held. The most recent took place in June at the UN Headquarters in New York. It was intended to revise the Program of Action, evaluate its implementation and define an agenda for the next few years. The result was a lack of consensus, and the inability to create a final document with goals and recommendations to combat the global crisis of armed violence.

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