Draft Arms Trade Treaty text littered with loopholes which need fixing urgently to save lives.
Draft Arms Trade Treaty text littered with loopholes which need fixing urgently to save lives
More than 325,000 people are estimated to have lost their lives through armed violenc
Notes to Editors
The 2011 Global Burden of Armed Violence Report of the Geneva Declaration Secretariat finds that some 526,000 people on average were killed annually between 2004 and 2009. This translates to 1,440 casualties per day (or one per minute); and multiplied by the 226 days between Saturday July 29 2012 and Monday March 11 2013 adds up to our estimate of 325,440 deaths.
Oxfam and Saferworld campaigners will be in New York for the duration of the negotiations, between March 18 and 28. For full reaction to the negotiations and to arrange interviews contact the press officers on the numbers below.
Read the report: Getting it Right: The pieces that matter for the Arms Trade Treaty
Contact Information
To arrange interviews with Oxfam’s Head of Arms Control Anna Macdonald and Saferworld’s Head of Arms Transfer Controls Roy Isbister please contact:
- Zahra Akkerhuys, at Oxfam, in the UK, on +44 1865 472498 or +44 7525 901932
- Louis Belanger, at Oxfam, in the US, on +1 (917) 224 0834
- Elizabeth Bourne, at Saferworld, in the UK, on +44 207 324 4646
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