Global Burden of Armed Violence: When the victim is a woman

This year, the fifty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 4 to 15 March 2013. The Priority theme of the session is the Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls. Small Arms Survey, within the framework of its global studies on armed violence in support of the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development (Global Brurden of Armed Violence) makes an important contribution to ongoing debates concerning this issue, by examining the understudied but widespread problem of femicide. Anna Alvazzi del Frate, Small Arms Survey Research director and author of several reports on armed violence and violence against women outlines the challenges in getting accurate and useful data for policymaking, as well as some significant findings obtained so far.