Shattered Lives: The case for though international arms control

PRIX REDUIT: 5 CHF au lieu de 20 CHF: Amnesty International/Oxfam, 2003, 91 pages

Arms are out of control. They 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.

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.