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, escalted conflicts and intensifies poverty.
To confront this crisis, Oxfam, Amnesty International, and the International Action Network on Small Arms have together launched an international campaign calling for effective arms controls to make people genuinely safe from the threat of armed violence.
Part of this campaign is the creation of the "Million Faces" petition.
The Group has taken photos which now appear on the Control Arms website. Members of the group, supporters and local MPs all had photos taken, now included on the Million Faces website.
It was announced in June 2006 that the campaign has succeeded in collecting one million images! 150,000 of these are from the UK.
On the first day of the UN Small Arms Conference, taking place in New York from 26 June - 7 July, gun survivor Julius Arile from Kenya, the official Millionth Face, joined other Control Arms campaigners to hand over the Million Faces petition to Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the UN. |
