A Farewell to Arms
- An exhibition documenting the human cost of arms proliferation -
5 pm, Sunday 20 September 2009,
Convention Centre Foyer,
India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110003
Organised by:
Control Arms Foundation of India & Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network
New Delhi, 18 September 09 : *
The international arms trade is out of control. Two thousand people die every day because of armed violence, and many more are seriously injured. Many of the victims are women and children. The United Nations estimates that 500,000 people are killed each year due to small arms violence.
1,135 companies in 98 countries manufactures arms, ammunitions and components worldwide. 640 million small arms light weapons under circulation, one for every 12 people on the planet
The arms trade was one of the first to globalise, and yet there are still more regulations on the international trade in music and film industry than on the international trade in arms. If the death, injury and disability resulting from unregulated arms trade were categorised as a disease, we would view it as an epidemic.
Between 10 and 14 billion units of military small arms ammunition are produced every year – that’s roughly two bullets for every man, woman and child on the planet.
In India alone, 12 people die from armed violence every day.
Yet most of us, in our day-to-day lives, still don't have a clear sense of how armed violence really affects the lives of millions. A critical element of an exercise in getting people to wake up to gun violence would be to bridge this information gap. How do we show that the effects of armed violence are real? How do we tell the world about the ways communities all around the world are experiencing them?
With this background, Control Arms Foundation of India & Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network invites you to an exhibition of photographs documenting the human cost of arms proliferation. The exhibition is titled, “A Farewell to Arms” and will be inaugurated by Shri Raghu Rai at 5 pm at the Convention Centre Foyer, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
The exhibition features entries from photographers from across India including the the first time display of images taken from Manipur by Raghu Rai. This exhibiton will showcase the works of 12 best photographers and agencies from Jammu and Kashmir, the Naxal region and the Northeast India.
View Invitation card here and Programme Schedule here
For more information, please contact the following :
Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network/ Control Arms Foundation of India
B 5/146, First Floor, Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi- 110029
Email : Contact[AT]cafi-online[DOTorg Phone: 011- 46018541, Fax: +91-11-2616623 Website: www.cafi-online.org
This information is sent to e-pao.net by Binalakshmi Nepram (Founder, Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network).
The sender can be contacted at Binalakshmi(at)gmail(dot)com
This PR was webcasted on September 18, 2009.
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