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SALW

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SALWSmall Arms and Light Weapons


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Small arms and light weapons (SALW) were responsible for about half a million deaths in 2003 and by 2020 the number of deaths and injuries as a result of SALW violence will overtake the number of deaths caused by killer diseases such as malaria.
A politically binding instrument to enable states to identify and trace illicit SALW was adopted by the United Nations in 2005.
] Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) Program The objective of DTRA's SALW Program is to reduce proliferation by assisting foreign governments with improving the security, safety, and management of state-controlled stockpiles of man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS), other small arms and light weapons, and conventional ammunition.
 
 
 
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