The United Nations Programme of Action (PoA) to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in all its Aspects, adopted by all UN member states in 2001.
On June 29th, 2018, after weeks of deliberation the Third Review Conference unanimously adopted a comprehensive and ambitious outcome document to effectively implement the PoA.
This Gender Perspectives page by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs offers links to resolutions and reports related to gender and disarmament.
In October of 2017, the United Nations’ internal mechanism for Coordinating Action on Small Arms (CASA) adopted a new International Small Arms Control Standards (ISACS) module entitled, “Women, men and the Gendered Nature of small arms and light weapons.”