The Women’s Institute for Alternative Development (WINAD), in support of the 2025 Global Week of Action Against Gun Violence, discussed the advancement of women’s participation and decision-making in small arms control.
According to WINAD’s Executive Director, Folade Mutota , the Institute aims to end gun violence and reduce and prevent the harm that it imposes on communities, social and economic structures, and infrastructure. She said the development of a participatory model for including women’s voices in public policy making is also being worked on.
Project Administrator for the Women’s Conversation on Women’s Disarmament, Small Arms Control and Leading Change in Borderline Communities in Trinidad and Tobago, Gary Grant, said that he is living proof that change is possible, highlighting that through the courage to confront hard truths, people can turn their lives around, preventing others from making the same mistakes.
According to Acting Programme Coordinator at the CARICOM Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS), Danielle Jemmott, approximately two hundred and thirty-nine million persons all share similar vulnerabilities and exposure to issues regarding crime and the trafficking of firearms and ammunition within the CARICOM region.
Ms. Mutota also highlighted that equal focus must also be placed on ammunition, as guns cannot kill without it.