Keeping Current: The SADC Firearms Protocol Update

'Though the causes and factors driving conflicts in the [...] SADC region have varied over the past 20 years, illicit firearms and ammunition have continued to remain a common feature. In fact, the region suffers of one of the highest rates of violent deaths by firearms per 100,000 population in the world. To tackle these issues, the SADC member states adopted the Protocol on the Control of Firearms, Ammunition, and other Related Materials (the SADC Firearms Protocol). They did this as early as August 2001 — the same year that the global Firearms Protocol, as well as the Programme of Action on Small Arms and its International Tracing Instrument were adopted...'

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