The National Commission on Small Arms and Light Weapons, in collaboration with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), INTERPOL, and other international agencies, is intensifying efforts to ...

President Joe Biden addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday at the U.N. headquarters. On Friday, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online ...

The ICRC encourages States that have not yet done so, to adhere to instruments regulating small arms and light weapons as well as other conventional arms, including the Arms Trade Treaty. The faithful ...

A new report has highlighted the persistent issue of illicit arms proliferation along the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Small Arms Survey, in its report titled "Documenting ...

Small arms — rifles and pistols — are one thing. But Ukraine has also been provided more advanced weapons systems that donors have been loath to give to others before.

"The Arms Trade Treaty, which was negotiated at the UN and entered into force in 2014, does include small arms and light weapons, but it also includes heavier weapons such as tanks, armored combat ...

On December 16, 2024, the National Commission on Small Arms and Light Weapons (NACSA) participated in a vital training session titled Driver Safety Summit, organized by Bolt in Kumasi. The session ...

This report examines the key demand factors, actors and markets at the core of the illicit proliferation of small arms and light weapons (SALW) in the Sahel countries of Burkina Faso, Niger and ...

Viktor Bout, known as 'the merchant of death' is trying to broker the sale of small arms to Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi militants. A personal friend of Russia's Vladimir Putin, Bout's connections ...

Mr. Krull noted that Germany had partnered with UNODC since 2017, recognising the long-term challenge of arms trafficking. He urged participants to embrace their responsibility at the meeting and ...

Small Arms Survey has been studying arms proliferation and violence in and around Ukraine since 2015, Florquin noted. "What we're seeing is, those who will pay the greatest cost will be the ...

Northern Cameroon has for decades been a hub for ammunition, small arms and light weapons trafficking in the Sahel. The problem has fuelled regional insecurity since 1980. In response, states of the ...