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35 A 1999 study of intimate femicide in Australia between 1989 and 1998 shows that guns were
used in 23.3 per cent of cases, with knives and sharp objects being used 36.6 per cent of the time.
Mouzos, Jenny (1999), Femicide: The Killing of Women in Australia, 1989–1998, Australian Institute
of Criminology, Canberra
36 Mouzos, Jenny and Catherine Rushforth (2003), ‘Firearm related deaths in Australia, 1991–2001’,
Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, Vol. 269, November, Australian Institute of
Criminology, Canberra
37 Richardson, Vigdor, Elizabeth and James Mercy (2002), ‘Disarming batterers: the impact of domestic
violence firearm laws’, in Jens, L. and P. Cook (eds), Evaluating gun policy: Effects on crime
and violence, Brookings Institution, Washington DC. However, the commission of a violence
misdemeanour does not always result in the abuser’s guns being surrendered.
38 In Bennett, O et al (eds.) (1995), Arms to Fight, Arms to Protect: Women Speak out about Conflict,
Panos, London, p. 37
39 Thusi, Thokozani (2004), ‘Learning from Sierra Leone’, Institute for Security Studies Monograph
No. 98, chap. 3. Available at: www.iss.co.za/pubs/Monographs/No98/Chap3.htm
40 These figures are reported in Mazurana, D. et al. (2002), ‘Girls in fighting forces and groups:
Their recruitment, participation, demobilization and reintegration’, Peace and Conflict, Vol. 8,
Issue 2, pp. 97–123. A more recent study notes that ‘the number of women combatants has not
been tallied’ and these figures could not be supplied by the National Commission on DDR. See
Miller, Derek and Daniel Ladouceur (2005), From research to roadmap: Learning from the Arms
for Development Initiative in Sierra Leone, UNDP and UNIDIR, Geneva, draft copy
41 Denov, Myriam and Richard Maclure, ‘Girls in Armed Conflict in Sierra Leone: Victimization,
Participation and Resistance’, in the forthcoming UN University and Swisspeace book on gender
perspectives on small arms and light weapons availability and misuse; See also Mazurana, Dyan
and Khristopher Carlson (2004), From Combat to Community: Women and Girls of Sierra Leone,
Women Waging Peace, Washington, DC; and Farr, Vanessa (forthcoming), DDR and Women
Combatants in Sierra Leone
42 Denov, M., and Maclure R. (in press), ‘Girls and Small Arms in Sierra Leone: Experiences, Implications,
and Strategies for Demobilization and Reintegration’, in A. Schnabel & V. Farr, eds.,
Gender Perspectives on Small Arms and Light Weapons, Tokyo: United Nations University Press
43 Email from Comfort Lamptey, Gender Advisor, UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations,
22 February 2007
44 UN News Centre, New York, 20 October 2004
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