GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC–The Caribbean Group (CARICOM) Implementation Company for Crime and Safety (IMPACS) will take part within the Fourth Evaluate Convention of the United Nations (UN) Programme of Motion on Small Arms (RevCon4), scheduled to happen on the UN Headquarters in New York, from 17 – 28 June 2024.
Each six years, a Evaluate Convention (RevCon) is held at UN Headquarters to evaluation progress made in implementing the Programme of Motion to Stop, Fight, and Eradicate the Illicit Commerce in Small Arms and Gentle Weapons in All Its Facets (PoA) and the Worldwide Tracing Instrument (ITI).
The third RevCon, which happened in 2018, was an important alternative for international locations in all areas to strengthen and enhance their efforts to cut back the proliferation and misuse of small arms and light-weight weapons.
Other than collaborating within the Convention, the CARICOM IMPACS workforce led by Callixtus Joseph, Assistant Director – Coverage, Technique and Innovation (Ag.), may even attend a collection of aspect occasions, together with: “A Public Well being Disaster: Small Arms Trafficking and Violence within the Caribbean” which shall be held on June 18.
The dialogue will deal with the regional traits of small arms proliferation and its affect on public well being and sustainable improvement, the function the general public well being sector can play in stopping firearms-related violence, and the attainable synergies between the general public well being strategy to violence prevention and extra security-focused initiatives.
Joseph shall be a panelist and ship remarks on synergies between regulation enforcement and public well being interventions.
Referring to the significance of getting CARICOM IMPACS illustration on the Convention, Joseph remarked: “RevCon4 presents a big alternative for the area to form world insurance policies, making certain that they align with the pursuits of CARICOM States in decreasing the proliferation and utilization of illicit weapons. Curbing the unlawful commerce of firearms and their ammunition is essential.
The convenience of entry to illicit weapons is a main driver of violence, which poses a big menace to atypical residents’ lives and livelihoods within the Caribbean.
The CARICOM workforce may even host its personal aspect occasion, “Advancing Progressive Regional Mechanisms to Cut back Gun Crimes: CARICOM Crime Gun Intelligence Unit,” on June 26. The main target of this occasion shall be regional approaches to gun crime intelligence and key efforts to know the trafficking dynamics. This session may even analyze the function of regional organizations, akin to CARICOM IMPACS, in implementing the UN PoA.
In line with the Weapons Compass: The Caribbean Firearms Examine 2023: “The Caribbean Area suffers from a few of the world’s highest charges of violent deaths, with firearms used within the majority of those crimes. Though most murder victims are males, the Caribbean as a area additionally faces one of many world’s highest charges of violent deaths amongst girls.”
The examine additionally reported that small arms and light-weight weapons (SALW) are utilized in greater than half of all homicides on common within the Caribbean Area; in some international locations, this proportion reaches 90 p.c.
The CARICOM IMPACS was established by the twenty seventh Assembly of the Convention of Heads of Authorities of CARICOM in July 2006, in Fowl Rock, St. Kitts, and Nevis, because the implementation arm of a brand new regional structure to handle CARICOM’s motion agenda on crime and safety.
At this assembly, the Heads of Authorities signed an Inter-Governmental Settlement establishing CARICOM IMPACS as a authorized entity, with direct duty for analysis, monitoring and analysis, evaluation, and the preparation of background paperwork and stories, in addition to mission improvement and implementation of the regional crime and safety agenda.
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