Shattered Lives: The case for tough international arms control - Softcover

Hillyer, Debbie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0855985224 ISBN 13: 9780855985226

Publisher: Oxfam Professional, 2003

Synopsis

Arms kill more than half a million men, women, and children on average each year. Many thousands more are maimed, or tortured, or forced to flee their homes. The uncontrolled proliferation of arms fuels human rights violations, escalates conflicts, and intensifies poverty. The time for world leaders to act is now.

To confront this crisis, Oxfam, Amnesty International, and the International Action Network on Small Arms have together launched an international campaign, control arms, calling for effective arms controls to make people genuinely safer from the threat of armed violence.

"Shattered Lives" accompanies the new campaign, with accessible information on the background of the problem, the nature of human rights violations, and proposals for specific action.

About this title

Synopsis:

Arms are out of control. Arms kill more than half a million men, women, and children on average every year. Many thousands more are maimed, or tortured, or forced to flee their homes. The uncontrolled proliferation of arms fuels human rights violations, escalates conflicts, and intensifies poverty. The time for world leaders to act is now. to confront this crisis, Oxfam, Amnesty International, and the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) have together launched an international campaign calling for effective arms controls to make people genuinely safer from the threat of armed violence. This volume provides a hard-hitting analysis of how abuse of small arms across the world is fuelling poverty and suffering.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxfam Professional
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0855985224
• ISBN 13: 9780855985226
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 98