17 June - Gender

In today’s show, we heard from campaign is set to lobby for policies that will keep women safe from gun violence. This week is the Global Week of Action Against Gun Violence to raise awareness, campaign for better gun laws and push for stronger regulation of the global arms trade. Civil society organisations, governments and UN agencies will organise events to draw attention to the human toll of small arms proliferation and misuse. This year there will be a particular focus on the mobilisation of civil society calling for their governments to support a strong Arms Trade Treaty in the discussions at the United Nations in July. The Disarming Domestic Violence campaign will be another major theme of this year's Week of Action. This is the first international campaign aimed at protecting women from gun violence in the home. The main goal is to ensure that people with a history of domestic abuse are denied access to firearms, or have their licenses revoked. According to the Ceasefire in South Africa one in every three women killed by her husband was shot. Laura explained more on the campaign. For more information visit www.ceasefire.org.za or send an email to stopwar@mail.ngo.za alternatively contact their offices on (011) 403 5315.