The most recent estimates of Global Firearms Holdings show that the whereabouts and security of 754 million of the world’s firearms are unknown. To reduce

The Centre for Armed Violence Reduction (CAVR) has begun a UN-funded partnership with ECOWAS, the Economic Community of West African States…

ArmsTracker is being used by the Golden West Humanitarian Foundation in its US-funded project to record the destruction of surplus weapons for the Royal Cambodian

In terms of gun violence and trafficking, the Pacific is currently one of the safest regions in the world.     This was not always the case,

Armed violence often cannot be significantly reduced without understanding the part played by gender attitudes in the thinking of those at risk of committing it…

CAVR offers a version of its ArmsTracker national weapon control system tailor-made to the needs of each State Agency, its governing legislation and current practices…

One of the central components of the Arms Trade Treaty is the requirement for all States Parties to establish a National Control List of weapons and ammunition…

Following requests from governments at the 2019 Pacific Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, CAVR reviewed the relevant laws for twelve Pacific Island States…

Preventing armed violence in Africa and Oceania is the focus of this Centre. Our efforts to avoid more gun death and injury are now accelerated…

On 8 April 2019 Palau became the 101st State Party to the Arms Trade Treaty, the third Pacific Island country after Samoa and Tuvalu…

50 state and civil society delegates from Asia-Pacific convened in Brisbane, Australia in late February for the 2019 Pacific Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty

CAVR deployed six staff and contractors from the US, the UK, Papua New Guinea, Thailand and Australia to mount national workshops on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) and the UN small arms Programme of Action (UNPoA)…