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Global Registry of Violent Deaths
May 6 , 2019
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- Stockholm International peace research institute (SIPRI) has launched a new initiative named Global Registry of Violent Deaths (GReVD).
- It aims to establish the annual number of violent deaths worldwide.
- GReVD will count deaths caused by all forms of violence and display these in an open-source database.
- It enables monitoring of progress on the world’s commitment to ‘significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere’ by 2030 (SDG-Goal 16).
- The database will hold a single entry for every violent death, including time, location, perpetrator, victim and type of violence.
- The first-phase of the project is funded by the Swedish Postcode Foundation and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development.
SIPRI
- SIPRI is an international institute based in Sweden and Established in 1966.
- It dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament.
- It provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources, to policymakers, researchers, media and the interested public.
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