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On 20-21 May, GAAV will conduct a training to support the development of a national report on armed violence and insecurity in the Philippines, in partnership with the Office of the President’s Special Envoy on Transnational Crime (OSETC), the Centre for Peace Education (CPE), and the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP).  

The new edition of the Global Burden of Armed Violence 2015: Every Body Counts was officily launched in Geneva, Switzerland on 11 May. The report examines how a comprehensive approach to violent deaths can serve to track progress towards a peace and security goal—whether as part of the post-2015 development framework or as a goal in and of itself.

GAAV’s working group on Working with Armed Actors is currently exploring the subject area: community-based approaches to disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration.

GAAV has launched a new publication, Implementing the Women, Peace & Security Agenda and Reducing Armed Violence, via its gender and armed violence working group. 

On 26 March at the UN Headquarters, New York, the Permanent Mission of Australia and the Permanent Mission of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste to the UN, with the Global Alliance on Armed Violence, Saferworld and the Small Arms Survey, hosted an interactive event on Measuring Violence, Crime and Peace: Indicators to Support Goal 16. 
 

On the occasion of the Post-2015 Intergovernmental Negotiations from 23-27 March 2015, the Permanent Mission of Australia to the UN, The Permanent Mission of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste to the UN, The Global Alliance on Armed Violence, Saferworld, and Small Arms Survey invite you to attend Measuring Violence, Crime and Peace: Indicators to Support Goal 16.

The Australian Mission to the UN in partnership with the Global Alliance on Armed Violence (GAAV), the International Action Network on Small Arms Women’s Network (WNK), and the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) held a side event in New York on 12 March 2015 during the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).

On 25 November, the Global Alliance on Armed Violence (GAAV) and the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) hosted a regional working on Preventing and Reducing Armed Violence to Promote Development, in Nairobi, Kenya.

The Global Alliance on Armed Violence (GAAV), with the Danish Demining group (DDG), have created mapping tools that give an overview description of armed violence and violent incidents across East Africa, namely Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, South Sudan and Ethiopia.

At the Geneva Declaration Regional Review Conference for Sub-Saharan Africa, 26-27 November, civil society groups delivered a strong call for action from States to reduce armed violence.