Whether in the Congo or in Canada, every one of the 200,000 civilian gun deaths which occur yearly in the world happens in a neighbourhood. That neighbourhood is connected not only to a community, but to the world at large.

IANSA women in Wajir (Kenya) are celebrating a major victory as the local government has agreed to share information about their small arms inventory and mark over 9,000 weapons.

The Third International Conference on Women’s Safety, will take place on 22-24 November 2010 in Delhi, India. As we know, women’s lack of safety is a serious obstacle to achieving gender equality as it curtails women's mobility and limits their right to participate fully and freely as citizens in their communities.

A gun amnesty has been extended after it began in response to a shooting which left three people dead. Andrew Copland shot his ex-partner Julie Harrison and their four-year-old daughter Maisie before killing himself in Aldershot on 29 December 2009, an inquest ruled.

This announcement is of interest to those IANSA members with ECOSOC status at the UN, and provides an opportunity to highlight the links between armed violence prevention and women's empowerment.

The International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), part of the NISAT Coalition which is an IANSA member in Norway, has launched the 'PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update' to mark the upcoming 10th Anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325.

IANSA women from Amnesty International in Peru have shared the findings from a recent report by the Peruvian Observatory on Criminality. Since 2009 the National Attorney’s Office has allowed the Observatory on Criminality to analyse disaggregated data to determine the characteristics of the murders of women and men.

Last weekend three more women died at the hands of their intimate partners in Barcelona, Castellón and Almería. Two of these were shot.

The Women PeaceMakers Program offers an opportunity for women leaders who want to document, share and build upon their unique peacemaking stories. Four peacemakers are selected each year to participate in an eight-week residency at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice (IPJ), located on the University of San Diego campus in San Diego, California.