Did you know there are 12,000,000,000 bullets produced every year? That's almost enough to kill everyone in the world twice © Amnesty International
Tweet for a strong Arms Trade Treaty
On 2 July, 193 governments will come together at the United Nations in New York to negotiate the world’s first Arms Trade Treaty.
If it succeeds, the treaty could protect millions of lives by making it harder for violent dictators and criminals to get their hands on deadly weapons.
Can you help keep up the pressure on key influencing countries ahead of this crucial tipping point?
Take action on twitter!
Click the 'tweet' buttons to use our suggestions below, or write your own (remember to use the hashtag #ArmsTreaty).
USA ~ US State Department (@StateDept)
.@StateDept Stop trading weapons with the world's Mubaraks. Support a strong #ArmsTreaty with human rights rules http://bit.ly/ArmsTweety
Russia ~ Ministry of Foreign Affairs (@MFA_Russia)
.@MFA_Russia stop arms to those using them for human rights abuses. Support an #ArmsTreaty & prevent another #Syria http://bit.ly/ArmsTweety
Australia ~ Bob Carr, Minister for Foreign Affairs (@BobJCarr)
.@BobJCarr @dfat Stay on target, bring back a strong #ArmsTreaty to keep weapons away from human rights abusers! http://bit.ly/ArmsTweety
We'll also be lobbying world leaders at the United Nations in New York throughout the negotiations. Your tweets will help keep up the pressure from home.
Why pressure the US, Russia and Australia?
The US is the world's largest arms exporter, accounting for an estimated 35% of the world's total arms deliveries. Several shipments of ammunition were sent to Egypt over the past year despite security forces' violent crackdown on protesters.
Russia is a major arms supplier to Syria. Despite the bloody uprising that has so far left 10,000 people dead in the last 14 months, weapons continue to flow into the country.
Australia's Bob Carr will be attending the opening of the treaty negotiations. The Australian Government is supportive of a strong treaty, but we think it can do more by using its influence to increase support in the Asia Pacific region.
Thanks for doing your bit!
If you receive a response, let us know. Leave a comment below, message us on twitter: @amnestyoz or email activism@amnesty.org.au. Check back on this page for updates.
Not on twitter? Not a problem. You can still sign our global appeal.We'll hand over your signature to world leaders at the United Nations in New York.
Comments
Claire Wee | Posted on 14 June 2012, 08:12AM | Report comment
i wish people could understand.. maybe we are all just tyring to be ourseleves but igorannating our injustices of the peace to satify our needs for indiaviaullity.. i feel its an act…I MEAN HELLO NATURAL HUMANS> I FELL THIS IS THE ONLY THINK WE CAN DO>? question why
Lynne Wilde | Posted on 13 June 2012, 12:34PM | Report comment
Those that continue to violate human rights need to be held accountable.The world needs to realize that in some countries there are those that are still denied their basic human rights.As a global community we need to stand up and say enough is enough.
nahan ashkar | Posted on 13 June 2012, 11:03AM | Report comment
there 3 years that i miss my son and i didn’t see him.. he was very talented. he could be lern so manything from me, but now he is in the hands of dealer and junkies. thies people are the friends of his mother. gilt is city cologne (germany ) i teached over 25 years gemans children, at the end they took my own son away. just because i wanted to defend the culture of germany and critisize this city and the justice of cologne. because people of cologne destroyed so many flutes and other instrumets of mine and couden’t continue my job…. since that day they hate me. now they are rtying to find a way to kill me. they like to say always that i am mad and want to püt me in pyschiatry with force, but couldn’t do that.. i play classical music as well as japanes and meditation music and i play alot of instrument, like flute , harpe piano, githar sitar, tabla , and others and i am doing thi- chi qigon over 30 years. you can see in youtube: nahan dance with the sun. or music: nahan ashkar. i am fighting over 4 years without any lowyer, but usless. the justice of cologne treat me very bad and not correct. and is trying always to cheat me. my innosence son is waithing for me and don’t understan was is happening.. the manipulations of his mother and and her family are making him mad.. my story is very long.. i have alot of letters als prove but its in german. i can explan everything better in german. at the moment i am living in france strasbourg and playing flute on the streat. and geting money like beger, very hurd life. i fear from german i don’t know what to do. can you help me? can i write in german. if yes give me an answer (if possible in german) thank you. nahan ashkar. (artist name) mohsen nikjooyfard. (real name)
Sp3Solidarios | Posted on 12 June 2012, 09:23AM | Report comment
http://sp3solidarios-en.blogspot.com.es/2012/02/power-relationships.html
Power relationships
In a sick world of greed and hedonism, NGOs, activists, social movements, Occupy, indignad@s and, in general, millions of committed and militant people struggle every day against the symptoms of this disease.
The world’s most vulnerable, especially women and children bear the brunt, suffering more than any inhabitant the consequences of social inequality, of armed conflicts, of injustice and discrimination.
A world based on power relationships: the power of weapons, the power of capital.
Subject peoples by force of arms and by the interest of capital.
People abandoned by their governments and the international community.
Arms trade and tax havens: a vicious circle of death, rapes, forced displacements, discrimination, exclusion, poverty and social injustice for the 99%. As well as a virtuous circle of power, economic benefits and political influence for the 1%.
Only external factors will be able to break this cycle. Millions of committed and militant people struggle every day against the symptoms of the disease, but the ultimate cure depends on each and every one of us. We, the 99%, are the external factors that will break the vicious circle in which we operate.
Change starts within ourselves, to the extent that we become advocates for social and ecological justice.