Webinar: Gun Violence in the Americas | Focus: Mexico

Tuesday, March 24th, 2020

With the world’s highest rate of lethal gun violence, the Americas are in the midst of an unmitigated public health crisis. Just six countries account for over half of 250,000 annual global gun deaths: the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and Guatemala. But activists, medical professionals, human rights workers, and policy experts are working together to stop this bloodshed and the vectors that make it happen. This webinar brings together leading researchers and advocates on this issue. John Lindsay-Poland and Natalia Báez are co-authors of Gross Human Rights Abuses: The Legal and Illegal Gun Trade to Mexico, and are both active in a working group in dialogue with the Mexican government about gun violence and trafficking. Dr. Hargarten serves as the Director of the Comprehensive Injury Center and is the Associate Dean for Global Health at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Webinar objectives:
1. Frame gun violence as a major public health crisis.
2. Describe the flow of guns (the vector of this public health burden) coming into Mexico
3. Learn more from the lived experience of gun violence in Mexico
4. Outline selected strategies to address the flow of guns into Mexico