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The Regional Guidelines for the Prevention of Gender-Based Violence Committed with the Use of Firearms offer a series of recommendations for the OAS Members States to prevent gender-based violence with the use of firearms, based on the review of existing literature at the global, inter-American and/or subregional levels developed in recent years, and interviews with key actors.

The Guidelines were approved by the Consultative Committee of the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials (CIFTA), at their twenty fourth regular meeting, on May 23, 2024.

4th discussion of the Emergency and Security Systems’ Community: Emergency & Security Systems’ Communication Strategies in Times of #COVID19

4to Conversatorio de la Comunidad de Servicios de Emergencia: Estrategias de Comunicación de los Sistemas de Emergencia y Seguridad en Tiempos de #COVID19

El alcalde de San Salvador, El Salvador, Ernesto Muyshondt, inauguró el proyecto Canchas para Todos el miércoles 25 de julio. La iniciativa remodelará aproximadamente 60 canchas en tres años, 20 canchas por año comenzando ahora en el 2018. El objetivo de este proyecto es de convertir canchas públicas en centros deportivos de primer nivel para prevenir la violencia.  

The United States Institute of Peace put together a panel of specialists from the World Bank Group, United Nations, USAID, the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Minister of Women and Human Rights Development of Somalia to discuss how diplomacy, defense and development can collaborate to keep conflicts from becoming violent. Rising conflicts, including trafficking and organized crime, cross international borders. One of the speakers stated that it is difficult to find a conflict that was not started as a form of grievance and exclusion. Therefore, it was determined that grievances must be addressed to prevent and reduce conflict by focusing on marginalized areas and addressing exclusion; targeting issues of power, natural resources, security and justice; and reinforcing participation and opportunities for decision making. Key recommendations were to be inclusive of women and youth’s aspirations, respond to needs in a collaborative manner, and to look at the root cause of the issues.

“Dilo con movimiento” fue un festival organizado por USAID y Glasswing International en San Salvador, el Salvador donde jóvenes presentaron sus coreografías en una plaza pública. Antes del festival, la compañía estadounidense de danza David Dorfman Dance instruyó en la danza a jóvenes salvadoreños de municipios vulnerables. USAID realizo el festival para usar la danza como herramienta de prevención de la violencia y espera crear con esta iniciativa un cambio positivo en la juventud. La fundadora de Glasswing El Salvador, Celina de Sola, dijo que el evento “se trata de dar espacios, oportunidades, de expresión de crecimiento, porque el potencial [del Salvador] es increíble.” Este evento fue hecho bajo el movimiento Generation Now, cual procura hacer actividades para que los jóvenes se puedan expresar y volverse agentes de cambio en de sus comunidades.