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| Week of Action Events |
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| Africa |
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| Burundi (a) |
Organiser: Bonne Generation du Burundi (BGB)
Events:
3 July: Workshop with 30 journalists from public and private radio
stations on the role of the media in the fight against small arms and global
efforts for arms control.
4 July: Broadcasting of shows concerning small arms, live radio
questions/answers with journalists, guests and the public.
5 July: Workshop with 50 participants (leaders of associations, parents,
religious representatives, teachers, local administrators) on the fight
against small arms.
7 July: Workshop on the role of demobilized child soldiers.
9 July: Demonstration against small arms.
Contact: Moksi Aynaki, goodgenerationbdi@yahoo.com |
| Burundi (b) |
Organiser: Colonie des Pionniers du Development (CPD)
A press release has been issued, presenting the following events:
Testimonies will be presented in public from war orphans and women in
post-conflict difficulties.
Radio talk shows promoting a treaty controlling the trade in small arms.
Lobbying National Focal Point to encourage collaboration with NGOs.
Contact Jacques Ntibarikure, pionniersfr@yahoo.fr |
| Burundi (c) |
Organiser: Compagnie des Apotres pour la Paix (CAP)
Media work including a press release.
Contact: Kamenyero Raymond cap@cbinf.com |
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| Cameroon |
Organiser:
Cameroon Youths and Students Forum for Peace (CAMYOSFOP) and
Cameroon Youths Confederation (CYC), in collaboration with
the UN Information Centre Yaounde-Cameroon
Events:
5 July CAMYOSFOP / CYC will be guests on ‘Monday Show’
(Cameroon Television, CRTV)
6 July CAMYOSFOP / CYC will be guests on ‘Morning Safari’
(Cameroon Radio, CRTV)
7 July Informative session at the UN Information Centre Auditorium,
Yaounde, for 80 invited participants.
9 July Theatrical/musical presentations & poster exhibitions
at the esplanade of Yaounde City Hall
The above events have been planned in collaboration with the
UN Information Centre Yaounde-Cameroon.
Contact: Eugene Ngalim, camyosfop@hotmail.com |
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| Côte d’Ivoire |
Organiser: Club Union Africaine
Events:
Submit press release to various newspapers.
Writing Letters to the Editors of various local newspapers.
Contact: Wodjo Fini Traore, traorewodjom@yahoo.com |
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| Democratic Republic of Congo (a) |
Organiser: Groupe de Réflexion et d'Echanges sur la Paix et la Non-violence (GREN)
Events:
5 July: Meeting with government and military authorities, including heads of various governmental departments and members of the House of Women, about small arms issues and the need for arms control.
6 July: Meeting, as above, with military authorities in various camps in down town Ulvira.
7 July: Meeting of various youth communities in central Ulvira.
8 July: Discussion with the youth of the Kimanga area where hidden arms and munitions had been discovered.
9 July: Reflection day and interaction with the mothers of various associations; evaluation of the efforts in the fight against small arms in Ulvira; official closing of the Week’s events.
Contact: Séraphin MASARARA Ngomanwa, mangogren@yahoo.fr |
| Democratic Republic of Congo (b) |
Democratic Republic of Congo: Groupe de Recherches et d’Actions contre la Marginalisation au Kivu (Projet GRAM – Kivu)
A press release has been issued for the following events:
Article in the Projet GRAM newsletters.
3-10 July: public awareness campaign in Kalonga, Bunyakiri province and Walungu, Walungu province. Schools, churches and local organisations will be involved.
6 July, 1630-1700: radio shows on Radio Télévision nationale Congolaise/Bukavu.
Broadcasting of two documentary videos, titled: ‘Farewell to Arms’ and ‘The Nairobi Declaration’.
Contact Victor Amissi Sulubika, amsulvic@yahoo.fr |
| Democratic Republic of Congo (c) |
Organiser: SOS Droits de l'Homme en Catastrophe
Event: Cultural evening with a band of young musicians and the group of traditional dancers of Bavira reciting poems upon the evil of small arms proliferation. Civil and military authorities will be invited, the UN mission in Congo (MONUC) and also young people.
Contact: Gilbert Amuli Ntaundi, sosdhcatastrophe@yahoo.fr |
| Democratic Republic of Congo (d) |
Organiser: Initiative pour la Prévention des Conflits (IPC)
Meeting journalists to discuss and promote the Nairobi Declaration.
Contact: Philippe Muanza, muanzaphil@yahoo.fr |
| Democratic Republic of Congo (e) |
Organiser: Groupe Amos
Media work including a press release.
Contact: Flory Kayembe Shamba, kaflosh@yahoo.fr |
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| Kenya |
Organiser: Security Research
and Information Centre
Theme: Wananchi United to Prevent Crime and Control Illegal
Small Arms. (Wananchi is Kiswahili for 'citizens')
1 July: Press release
2 July: Press conference
2 July: Prayers in Mosques
2 -4 July: workshop for religious women from the metropolitan
archdiocese of Kisumu organised by KANSA member People for Peace in
Africa (PPA). Keynote speaker was Stein Villumstad, regional
representative of Norwegian Church Aid (NCA).
3 July: Church prayers at Seventh Day Adventist
4 July: Other Christian Church services
5 July: Radio/TV Talk Shows
6 July: Radio talk show
9 July: Prayers in Mosques
9 July: Public procession and public forum to highlight the
effects of illicit small arms and create public awareness. Government officials have been invited to deliver speeches, victims of gun violence
will be given the opportunity to share experiences, NGOs to share information
9 July: Visit patients with gun-related injuries at Kenyatta
National Hospital
9 July: KANSA members will attend the official launch of Nairobi Secretariat on Small
Arms website
10 July: Public forum and small arms campaign in Garissa (Eastern Province)
10 July: Concluding press release
Contact: Lt Col (rtd) Jan Kamenju, sric@sric-ke.org |
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| Liberia (a) |
Organiser: Center for
Peace Education and Democracy (COPE)
Events:
- Get sport stars, government officials,
etc to sign up to the Million Faces Petition.
- Distribution of campaign leaflets.
- March against small arms.
- Radio talk shows.
- Newspaper articles.
COPE is also working with the newly organized
Liberia Action Network on Small Arms (LANSA) to implement
some activities.
Contact: Worlea-Saywah Dunah, copeliberia@yahoo.com
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| Liberia (b) |
Organiser: National Movement
for Democracy (NAMOD)
Event: Collecting faces and signatures for the Million Faces Petition in
churches and schools
Contact: namod2003@yahoo.com |
| Liberia (c) |
Organiser: Pentecostal Church
of God Action for Peace and Development (PECGAPED)
Event: Collecting faces for the Million Faces Petition in churches
and schools.
Contact: pecgaped@yahoo.com |
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| Malawi |
Malawi: Centre for Human Rights & Rehabilitation (CHRR)
Events:
Sent a letter lobbying Members of Parliament and the Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Security.
1 July: Joint press conference/briefing with the Malawi Police.
3 July: Radio interview on private radio station, Capital FM.
3 July: Live radio debate on the Control Arms campaign.
5 July: TV interviews.
10 July: Debate on national public radio station.
Public awareness raising campaign in all three regions and eights districts of Malawi.
Contact: Undule Mwakasungura, undule@sdnp.org.mw |
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| Mozambique |
Organiser: Transforming Arms into Ploughshares
Creating a sculpture, 3m high and 2.5 wide, of 600 AKMs and 57 pistols
that have been collected. This sculpture will be exhibited in the
British Museum in London for 5 years, December 2004 onwards.
Contact: Albino Forquilha, forquilhatae@tvcabo.co.mz |
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| Nigeria |
Organiser: Childolescent &
Family Survival Organization (CAFSO)
Events:
1. Visit Police Force Headquarters.
2. Visit Nigeria Prison Services, Agodi State Headquarters,
Ibadan.
3. Visit Oyo state House of Assembly.
4. Media houses
Contact: Dr D Tola Winjobi, tolawinjobi58@yahoo.com |
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| Sénégal |
Organiser: Mouvement contre les Armes Légères en Afrique de l'Ouest (MALAO)
Media work, including issuing a press release on the problems of small arms
proliferation in West Africa.
Contact Christiane Agboton-Johnson, malao@iansa.org
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| Sierra Leone (a) |
Organiser: Rural Youth Development
Organisation - Sierra Leone (RYDO-SL)
Events:
1-2 July Workshop seminar.
9 July Public rally materials/ printing of t-shirts, banner,
flyers and poster. Prayers at mosque.
11 July Church service.
Contact: Joseph Ngoniyela Kobba, rydosl@yahoo.com |
| Sierra Leone (b) |
Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Action Network on Small Arms (SLANSA)
Events:
1 July: Launch in Freetown - Addresses by NGO'S, the police, UNAMSIL and Daniel Ladouler, the coordinator of UNDP arms for
development (AFD).
2 July: Preaching against small arms in Mosques nationwide.
4 July: Preaching against small arms in Churches nationwide.
6 July: SLANSA members have been invited to a press conference with the police and will seek to generate press coverage.
7 July: Open forum with the Ministry of Defense and screening of a film on SALW.
8 July: Film screening for schoolchildren on the dangers of small arms.
9 July: Symbolic burning of weapons, in collaboration with UNAMSIL.
Contact Florella Hazeley, sgccsl@sierratel.sl |
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| South Africa |
Organiser:South Africa: Arms
Trade Treaty Alliance
Events:
1 July: press release
4 July: prayers in churches
6 July: Press conference for the release of the Control Arms
report - Guns or Growth?
Venue: SANGOCO Boardroom, Braamfontien at 1100
8 July: Drama on the impact of guns in society
Venue: ABSA Square, Johannesburg at 1100
8 July: Candlelit vigil
Venue: African Methodist Episcopal Church at the HB Senatle
Centre,
Johannesburg
9 July 2004: Screening of a documentary on the devastating
impact of guns to society and development. The Director of
the UN Information Centre will be a guest speaker.
Venue: Goethe Institute Johannesburg at 1200
Photos and messages will be collected in support of the Firearms
Control Act during the week. They will be submitted to the
National Commissioner of Police and to the Control Arms Campaign
Million Faces Petition.
Contact: Joseph Dube, campaigns@amnesty.org.za |
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| Sudan |
Organiser: Human Security Initiative Organisation (HSIO)
Events:
7 July: Article about the danger and misuse of SALW published in English and Arabic local newspapers
10 July: Organised a meeting on SALW as part of the Sudanese National Focal Point. The meeting was attended by senior government representatives, foreign embassies and NGOs. HSIO distributed a leaflet and the organisation action plan on small arms.
Contact Osman Hassan, hsiosuad@hotmail.com |
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| Tanzania |
Organiser: Tanzanian Action Network
on Small Arms (TANANSA) including Human Rights Education and
Peace International (HUREPI - Trust), Amnesty International
(Tanzania), Oxfam GB in Tanzania, CEPEDE and Arusha Non-Governmental
Organisation Network (ANGONET)
Events:
6 July: Workshop in Arusha with the Regional Task Force comprising
regional administration, police authority, immigration and security.
The ATT will be prominently featured.
9 July: Match race in Dar es Salaam which will be documented
in the press. Organised in partnership with the Tanzania National
Focal Point.
All activities will involve collecting signatures for the Million
Faces petition.
Contact: Peter Mcomolla, mcomalla@yahoo.com |
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| Togo (a) |
Organiser: Cercle des Jeunes pour une Societé de Paix (CJSP)
1-10 July: Collecting signatures and photos for Million Faces in three states.
9-10 July: Control Arms football match in Glei.
Leaflets will be distributed and photos acquired for the Million Faces.
Contact Yaossim Koffi Kpela-Azouma, cjspaixtogo@yahoo.fr
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| Togo (b) |
Organiser: Amnesty International (Togo)
A press release will be issued for the following activities:
Million Faces Petition
Local radio talk shows
Free music concert
Lobbying actions against small arms proliferation, government and parliament
Contact Hotowossi K Vé at aitogo@yahoo.fr |
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| Uganda |
Organiser: People With Disabilities
(PWD)
Events:
1-2 July - Great Lakes and Horn of Africa training workshop
on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), organised in Kampala by the
Eastern Africa Action Network on Small Arms (EAANSA).
from 5 July onwards - a talk show on 6 local radio stations
in different local languages in 4 different regions of Uganda
8 July - a half day seminar and press conference attended
by high ranking government officials at Hotel Africana in
Kampala.
Throughout the week: Collecting photos for the Million Faces
Petition.
Uganda’s National Focal Point on SALW will participate
in all the activities.
Contact: Richard Mugisha, pwd@imul.com |
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| Zambia |
| Zambia: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW - Zambia)
Events:
10 July: Rally involving Lusaka secondary schools to be held at David
Kaunda Technical Secondary School where campaigners and a gun victim will
address pupils on the evils of illicit firearms. Signatures will be
collected for the Million Faces Petition. Campaign materials in local languages and
English will be distributed.
10 July: A cultural evening featuring traditional dances at the famous
Kabwata Cultural Village where the local Member of Parliament will give a
keynote speech on the dangers of an unregulated firearms trade. More
signatures for the Million Faces Petition.
Contact Bob Mtonga, bobmtonga@hotmail.com |
Organiser: IPPNW – Zambia
Events:
10 July: Rally involving Lusaka secondary schools to be held at David
Kaunda Technical Secondary School where campaigners and a gun victim will
address pupils on the evils of illicit firearms. Signatures will be
collected for the Million Faces. Campaign materials in local languages and
English will be distributed.
10 July: A cultural evening featuring traditional dances at the famous
Kabwata Cultural Village where the local Member of Parliament will give a
keynote speech on the dangers of an unregulated firearms trade. More
signatures for the Million Faces.
Contact: Bob Mtonga, bobmtonga@hotmail.com
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| Zimbabwe |
Organiser:
Centre for Defence Studies
Events:
1. Distribution of materials by volunteers.
2. Engaging the media via a feature-article and convening
of press conferences.
Contact: Frederick Sadomba and Gwinyayi Albert Dzinesa, gadzinesas@yahoo.com |
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| Asia and the Pacific Region |
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| Bangladesh |
Organiser: National Small
Arms Forum (NSAF) – Bangladesh
Events:
1. Workshop/press briefing with journalists
2. Dialogue/round-table discussion on ‘Small Arms and
Right to a Safe Environment: Bangladesh Perspective’
Contact: Nadira Malik, sapbdesh@citechco.net |
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| Cambodia |
Organiser:Working Group for Weapons
Reduction (WGWR)
Events:
7 & 8 July: Inter-provincial workshop on "Weapons Collection
Campaigns: Past and Future Action" during which student-volunteer
teams will collect signatures for the Million Faces Petition
A press release will be issued before the workshop.
Contact: Neb Sinthay, wgwrdirector@online.com.kh |
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| India (a) |
Organiser: IIPDEP
Events:
28 June Seminar in Abohar, Punjab
30 June Seminar in Jammu town, Jammu & Kashmir
4 July Seminar in Sringar, Jammu & Kashmir
Contact: Dr. Balkrishna Kurvey, iipdep_ngp@sancharnet.in |
| India (b) |
Organiser: SASA-Net India
Events:
17 July Meeting on the impact of small arms the world over
18 July Training of TRainers programme in Hyderabad for 45 –
50 individual and NGO participants.
Contact: Vijayam Raghunathan, vijayam.raghu@ril.com
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| India (c) |
Organiser: Martin Luther King Center for Democracy
& Human Rights
Events:
12 July Ranchi, Jharkhand state.
17 July Raipur, Chhatisgarh state.
1. Meet a journalist and get her interested in our work.
2. Write letters to the newspaper editors.
3. Collect faces for the Million Faces Petition.
4. Handout campaign leaflets.
5. Meet Government officials and handout the campaign report/summary.
6. Try to get photos of Members of the Parliament for the Million
Faces Petition.
7. Public seminar.
Contact: Shanti Ranjan Behera, shanti_ranjan@rediffmail.com |
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| Nepal |
Organiser: Institute of Human Rights Communication Nepal (IHRICON) and SASA-Net Nepal
Event: 9 July: Interaction program where members of SASA Net Nepal will share their perspectives on Gender and Small Arms. Journalists, human rights groups, academics, politicians, and military figures will be among the 100 participants. A Home Minister has been invited.
Contact: Shobha Guatam, sasanetnepal@sapnepal.org.np |
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| Pakistan (a) |
Organiser: Community Appraisal
and Motivation Programme (CAMP)
Events:
IANSA factsheets on small arms have been translated into Urdu
(Pakistan's National language) for distribution.
Dialogue/focus group discussion with NGOs, local tribal elders
and local political administration in Khyber agency of Federally
Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan.
Peaceful rally in Khyber agency through Khyber Pass in Tribal
area.
Rally in Peshawar with the involvement of local district officials.
Contact: Naveed A. Shinwari, camp@camp.org.pk |
| Pakistan (b) |
Organiser: WIKH Development Foundation
Event: Meetings and seminars with partner NGOs throughout the districts of
Thatta, Badin and Hyderabad.
Contact: Shahab Mughal, wikhfoundation@hotmail.com |
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| Philippines |
| Organiser: Philippines Action
Network on Small Arms (PHILANSA)
Events:
July 1: Film showing of 'Bowling for Columbine' in an International
Studies Class at the Miriam College in Quezon City, Metro
Manila. This kicks off a series of film showings to over 10
universities and communities in Metro Manila as well as in
Central and South Philippines.
July 9: Press conference at Quezon City Circle. Together with
Amnesty International, PHILANSA will re-launch the 'Control
Arms' campaign. There will also be a preview for the media
of the documentary made by PHILANSA for the roving exhibit
entitled "Life Beyond Weapons: Making Communities Safer".
July 16: Launch of roving exhibit.
Throughout the week: Seeking support for the Million Faces
petition, including celebrity endorsements.
Contact: Alfredo Lubang, philansa@iansa.org |
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| Thailand |
| Organiser: Nonviolence International
Events: Seminars
Date: 6th June
Nonviolence International has organized 2 seminars on the
Arms Trade Treaty, one for representatives of government agencies
in Thailand and a second for NGOs. We have a resource person
coming from the Arias Foundation in Costa Rica for these meetings.
The aim of the event is to introduce the Thai government to
the Arms Trade Treaty, and to build more support among NGOs
for an Arms Trade Treaty.
Contact: Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan at seasia@nonviolenceinternational.net
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Australia |
Organiser: Australian Campaign Against
the Arms Trade (ACAAT)
Event: Stalls at two of the local agricultural shows, Cairns
and Atherton
Organisers will provide material on the landmines campaign
and the small arms issue.
Contact: David Johnson,
acaat@cyberwizards.com.au |
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| The Americas |
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| Argentina |
Organiser: Espacios
Events:
1. Poster competition, poetry, sculpture, writing, short stories
2. Launch web site ‘Argentina without weapons’ http://www.argentinasinarmas.org and inviting other organisations from municipalities to send
emails to publicise the site.
3. Screening of documentary ‘Desarmados’ in Buenos
Aires, Mendoza and Rosario
4. Promotion of the book ‘Niños y armas. Víctimas
y victimarios’ by Martín Appiolaza and opening
of new Espacios office in Mendoza
5. Participation of 500,000 pupils in ‘Disarmament in
the Schools’ Week
Contact: Gabriel Conte, gconte@desarme.org |
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| Brazil: (a) |
Organiser: Viva Rio
Event: Following the Week of Action, Viva Rio has organised
a gun destruction day towards the end of July. 6,500 illegal
firearms seized by police will be destroyed by Viva Rio, the
Brazilian Army, and the Rio de Janeiro state government. Oscar
Niemeyer, the most famous Brazilian architect, will use the
destroyed weapons to make a monument to peace.
Contact: Jessica Galeria (IANSA Mercosur), mercosur@iansa.org
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| Brazil: (b) |
| Organiser: Instituto
Sou da Paz
Events:
Training a group of 15 volunteers to give talks about disarmament and divulge information about the new statute at CEUS (Centers
of United Education) in the periphery of São Paulo. These talks will continue every weekend in various locations until October.
During the 180 day amnesty, a Sou da Paz bus will go to strategic areas in the periphery of the city , together with the federal
police and other local organizations, participate in the arms buy back. At the same time, we will also try to establish several
fixed locations (other than police stations) for people to turn in arms- such as our own building here at the Institute Sou da Paz.
Contact: Denis Mizne, soudapaz@soudapaz.org
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| Canada |
Organiser: Project Ploughshares
Event: July 7: Roundtable - "Towards common OAS principles
for transfers of small arms and light weapons (SALW)" -
bringing together government officials from Mexico, USA, Canada,
along with NGO representatives from each of these countries,
seeking to raise official support for ATT principles. Amnesty
International Canada, Oxfam Canada and Oxfam Quebec have been
invited. In keeping with the building block approach of the
campaign, efforts are being made to build a regional instrument
that reflects ATT principles.
Press release on the 'Guns or Growth' report, which will highlight
the Control Arms campaign.
Contact: Lynne Griffiths-Fulton, lgriffiths@ploughshares.ca |
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| El Salvador |
Organiser: UPA Children's Radio, Tin Marín Children's Museum, Angels for Peace children's group and Violence-Free Society Program
of UNDP.
Events:
7 July: Launch of the campaign 'Safe zones, No guns on the streets'. The campaign will involve private companies, especially the
large shopping centres, in helping to raise awareness of the dangers caused by widespread civilian gun ownership and pressing for a
ban on the carrying of guns in public places.
8 July: The Angels of Peace will deliver 47,000 signatures of children, their parents and neighbours to 4 different commissions of
the Legislative Assembly, asking parliamentarians to prohibit guns on the streets and to declare 'gun free days' on public holidays.
15 July: A mass honouring the victims of gun violence will be held in the Cathedral of San Salvador, to be attended by prominent
political and community figures.
24 and 25 July: Collection of signatures and surveys in the Plaza Mundial shopping centre for the 'Safe zones, No guns on the
streets' campaign.
Contact: Marcela Smutt, marcela.smutt@undp.org |
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| Guatemala |
Organiser: Instituto de Enseanza para el Desarrollo Sostenible (IEPADES)
Event: 9th of July –to mark international weapons destruction day, an agreement on armed violence will be signed by the Presidents of the
Republic, Congress and the Supreme Court of Justice as well as the Commissioner for Human Rights and the Chief Public Prosecutor.
The agreement commits the government to carry out a National Program of Disarmament. Among the important public figures signing the
agreement as special witnesses will be the Nobel laureate, Señora Rigoberta Menchú. IEPADES, an IANSA member and part of the
National Commission on Disarmament, was involved in the consultations which led to the creation of the National Programme and will
facilitate the execution of the Programme.
Contact: Mayda de León, iepades@iepades.org |
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| Paraguay |
Organiser: Sociedad Paraguaya
de Criminologia and Amnesty International – Paraguay
Events:
July 7: Press Conference at the Amnesty International - Paraguay
offices to convene a working group, composed of government
representatives and NGOs, to analyse legislation and application of
mechanisms to control firearms at the national level for the Control
Arms campaign. More
July 9: Video-debate at the National Police Training Center, including
screening the film 'Bowling for Columbine' and a panel debate by the
organisers. More
Contact: María Cecilia Gortari, cecigortari@hotmail.com |
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| Trinidad & Tobago |
| Organiser: Women's Institute
for Alternative Development (WINAD)
Events:
1 July: Interview on TV morning programme Morning Edition.
3 July: Distribution of information materials at 3 shopping
malls - Long
Circular Mall, Trincity Mall and Mid Centre Mall, and gathering
photos for
Million Faces petition.
4 July: Interview with afternoon radio talk programme.
6 July: Interview on TV morning programme.
Contact: Folade Mutota, folademutota@yahoo.com |
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| Uruguay |
Organiser: Asociación de Lucha para el Desarme Civil (ALUDEC)
Event: 8 July: Press conference at the Parliament building in Montevideo, focusing on the problem of guns in within the civilian
population, its consequences, the solutions which are currently planned and how well developed these solutions are.
The conference will include presentation of a draft bill for a national gun control system and the advertising campaign on the theme “If you've got a gun, you've got a problem”, followed by discussion.
Contact: Gustavo Guidobono, ALUDEC, guidobono@ayc.com.uy |
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| USA |
Organiser: Arms Trade resource Center
Event: Opinion piece in national media.
Contact: Bill Hartung and Frida Berrigan, berrigaf@newschool.edu |
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| Europe |
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| Macedonia (a) |
Organiser: Journalists
for children and women rights and protection of environment
in Macedonia – JCWE
Events:
1 July Press Conference in NVO Info Centre
2 July Roundtable, ‘Peace For Us’ (Youth from all
nationalities in Macedonia will talk how to live in peace.)
4 July Promotion of survey ‘Involvement of Women in the
Illicit Arms Trade in Macedonia’
6 July Children will draw on the subject ‘For Life Without
Arms’ - the best images will be edited on new school calendar
2004-2005.
8 July Roundtable, ‘Macedonia Need One More Action For
Voluntary Disarmament?’
9 July Press Conference. Also: Signing
of the Million Faces petition, each day in a different town:
1 July Tetovo
2 July Kicevo
3 July Veles
4 July Ohrid
5 July Bitola
6 July Skopje
7 July Strumica
8 July Stip
Contact: Natasa Dokovska, detstvo@detstvo.org.mk |
| Macedonia (b) |
Organiser: CIVIL
July 1-4: Meetings with NGOs, journalists, citizens and community leaders.
July 5: Press release on Participation of the Republic of Macedonia in the
Global Week Against Small Arms.
July 6: Meeting of the Civil Advisory Board (CAB) to discuss weapons in society, and draw conclusions and issue a public statement
July 7: Posters and flyers will be distributed throughout the country.
July 8: Press release will be issued on the dangers of Small Arms and
Light Weapons (SALW).
July 9: Distribution of posters and flyers in the capitol of Skopje, as
well as issuing a press release on the importance of citizens involvement.
July 10: Press release on SALW safety regulations and a rock concert on
the main square of Skopje.
Contact: Xhabir M. Deralla, deralla@civil.org.mk |
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| Poland |
Organisers: Amnesty International
– Poland
Event: 6-7 August: Big music festival ‘Woodstock Stop’
(info in English here )
Gathering photos for the Million Faces Petition.
Contact: Jacek Bialas, jacek.b@amnesty.org.pl |
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| Serbia (a) |
Organiser: Balkan Youth Union
10 July: Public awareness event where signatures and photos for the
Million Faces petition were obtained.
Contact Vladimir Djumic, vdjumic@bum.org.yu |
| Serbia (b) |
Organiser: European Movement - Local Council Zrenjanin
SALW risk education and advocacy campaign among the mixed ethnicity
population of Zrenjanin Municipality. Children from local schools have
been engaged in a door-to-door campaign with specially produced leaflets
designed to change the attitudes of local people to weapons ownership
and hazards. Video clips warning of the real-life impacts of unsafe
behaviours have been broadcast on local TV networks. The campaign has
been funded by IANSA member South Eastern Europe Clearinghouse for Small
Arms and Light Weapons (SEESAC), drawing on its 'Small Arms and Light
Weapons Awareness Support Pack'.
Contact Larry Attree (SEESAC), larry.attree@undp.org |
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| Spain |
Organiser: Amnesty International
and Intermon-Oxfam
Events:
6 July: Cyber-campaign calling on the Spanish Government to
promote the Arms Trade Treaty
9 July: Madrid and Barcelona, 'Weapons parade' - a parody
of a fashion parade, with professional models displaying the
'latest fashions' in small arms and a commentator describing
their effects. The weapons will then be publicly destroyed.
Both events are aimed at urging President Zapatero to make
a public declaration of support for the ATT.
Contact: Susana Fernández, sfernandez@es.amnesty.org |
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| United Kingdom |
Organiser: Amnesty UK, Oxfam
GB, Gun Control Network and Mothers Against Guns.
Events:
9 July 1. Photo-op where two mothers who have lost children
to gun violence will destroy replica guns.
2. Press conference with Amnesty, Oxfam and UK gun control
campaigners
Contact: Robert Parker. robert.parker@amnesty.org.uk |
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