By Lucas Musetti Today, Wednesday October 11, Rose Welsch delivered a speech to the First Committee of the 72nd General Assembly of the...

By Brian Van Oosterum There is a large and vibrant international community dedicated to eliminating violence in all its forms. Just as...

By Danny Kleschick How We Can Move Forward It is my strongest hope and belief that we as a society can find some middle ground between...

A Gun is a Destructive Tool I remember the first time I shot a gun. I was raised in Indiana, a traditionally conservative state where gun...

By Danny Kleschick Where the United States Fits in These conflicts are far greater in magnitude than the isolated gun violence we now see...

By Danny Kleschick Guns Incendiary Effects on a Global Scale Due to their ease of use, transportation and concealment, yet astonishing...

By Danny Kleschick This past Sunday, the United States witnessed one of the most deadly and inexplicable mass shootings in history. A...

By Joshua Krishbaum In light of the International Day of Nonviolence I wanted to introduce myself as well as the amazing organization for...

By Brian Van Oosterum The UN is no stranger to criticism. There is still a shocking amount of poverty on earth, and violence still...

I am calling to each and every one of you. The SILENCE has been broken! The United Nations Ministerial Declaration regarding the UN...

By Sarah Chamberlain Are you distressed by the global proliferation of guns? If so, you’re not alone. It is estimated there are...

By Sarah Chamberlain FIVE. If a gun is present in a domestic violence situation, that’s the number of times by which a woman’s risk of...

By Sarah Chamberlain Years ago, when I was working at a restaurant, a man came in, saw that a WNBA game was on, and requested that the...

By Jamie Gabriel It is human nature to put greater emphasis on things we, as individuals, find significant within our own lives. In the...

By Eren Kaya The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) have been in power in Turkey since...

By Haleigh Zillges This election season boasted some of the most-watched presidential debates in televised history[1]. Hillary Clinton...

By Araya Wongwan On June 9, 2016 the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the United Nations Office of...

Lauren McGowan “Fifteen years ago, the first United Nations Conference on Small Arms opened in this same conference room, on the 9th of...

By Amanda Coppa & Catherina Santos On Wednesday, June 8, the International Action Network of Small Arms (IANSA) hosted a side event at...

By Amanda Coppa & Lauren McGowan This past Friday, June 10th, former voice singer Christina Grimmie was shot and killed by Kevin James...

By Araya Wongwan & Alexander Temple Promoting PoA and ITI in the Arab World’ was a side event for the BMS6, hosted by the German Mission...

By Lawrence Robinson The first day of the NGO CSW Parallel Events (held in buildings around the U.N. headquarters in New York and...