Support the call on Governments
To reflect our wider focus in policy, advocacy and programming, Landmine Action is changing its name to Action on Armed Violence (AOAV). We will continue to work on humanitarian problems caused by landmines, cluster munitions and other weapon technologies as key points of engagement within the broader problem of armed violence.
We are in the process of developing an AOAV website covering our wider policy and programming concerns but, in the interim, this website presents basic advocacy tools to urge stronger commitments and practical action from states towards reductions in the incidence and impact of armed violence.
CALL ON GOVERNMENTS
Armed violence kills and injures individuals, it creates fear and insecurity, it breaks up families and impoverishes communities, countries and sometimes whole regions. Combining crime and conflict, armed violence should be seen alongside poverty as one of the high level barriers to our common global development.
There needs to be recognition of armed violence as a development issue that needs to be analysed and addressed- globally, nationally and locally- through new laws, new policies and stronger practical action. We call on governments to use the 2010 Millennium Development Goal Review Process to take concrete steps to address armed violence. Governments must:
- Commit to achieving measurable reductions in armed violence.
- Commit to measuring and reporting on the level and impact of armed violence.
- Commit to strengthen violence reduction programming and assistance to victims of armed violence.
- Recognise that international cooperation and assistance- in addition to existing commitments- are needed to strengthen armed violence reduction.
- Reaffirm commitment and support for existing and emerging international instruments to reduce the impact of armed violence.
Advocacy Tool kit
- Advocacy Tool kit
How to take action to ensure strong state commitment to tackling armed violence - Advocacy Leaflet
Information about our Call on Governments
Reports
- Promoting development through the reduction and
prevention of armed violence
A report by the UN Secretary General - Armed Violence Reduction
Enabling Development, a report by the OECD - Global Burden of Armed Violence
A report by The Geneva Declaration Secretariat - A State of Ignorance
The UK Government’s efforts to assess civilian deaths in Iraq, 2003-2009