2006 is critical for the Control Arms campaign
 The Control Arms campaign wants to get the ground ready NOW for a huge year that can change the global rules that govern the sale of weapons. As Oxfam director Barbara Stocking put it: "In 2006, the world has a choice. Either it continues to ignore the massive human cost of arms proliferation or it finally acts to control the arms trade." And this week is critical as UN meetings begin in New York, in preparation for the UN conference in June. It will be the first major review of small arms control in five years.
It is alarming that countries which manufacture very few arms have the biggest arms control problems because they are "flooded with weapons". The civilians of Haiti, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sierra Leone suffer every day at the hands of an unregulated arms trade. Jean Charles, humanitarian officer in the Congo, said that "there are so many weapons here that each person makes up their own law".
What action can you take?
Sign the Control Arms Million Faces petition - this is a chance to real show how you feel about the injustices of the arms trade. Draw a self-portrait or add a photo to your name.
Have a look at the Manchester Faces petition page and get invovled in their visual petition against the arms trade.
Tell your friends about the campaign by sending them a 'children are born with these arms, not these' e-card.
Read the 2006: critical year for achieving Arms Trade Treaty press release on Oxfam.org.uk.
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Its not much to ask is it? After all democracies are meant to be peaceful aren't they? Hmmm what happened then to make the UK a leading exporter of arms to countries that want to kill themselves. In my book that isn't what I'd like democracy to stand for. Together we should stand up and get this injustice changed!
By G,
January 12, 2006 9:28 PM
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