PRESS INVITATION: A Farewell to Arms – Exhibition Documenting the Human Cost of Arms Proliferation

Posted on September 18, 2009 0 Comments62

A Farewell to Arms
Inauguration of an Exhibition Documenting the
Human Cost of Arms Proliferation

Date: Sunday, 20 September 2009
Time: 5 pm
Venue: Convention Centre Foyer, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi

Organised by
Control Arms Foundation of India & Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network

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For a report and photgrapaphs on the event please click HERE

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New Delhi, 18 September 09: The international arms trade is out of control. The United Nations estimates that 500,000 people are killed each year due to small arms violence. Many of the victims are women and children. In India alone, 12 people die from armed violence every day.

If the death, injury and disability resulting from unregulated arms trade were categorised as a disease, we would view it as an epidemic.

1,135 companies in 98 countries manufactures arms, ammunitions and components worldwide. 640 million small arms light weapons under circulation, between 10 and 14 billion news units of military small arms ammunition are produced every year – that’s about two bullets for every man, woman and child on the planet.

The arms trade was one of the first to globalise, and yet there are still more regulations on the music and film industry than on weapons production and distribution.

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.

With this background, Control Arms Foundation of India (CAFI) & 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 first time display of images taken in Manipur in 2008 by Shri Raghu Rai. The exhibiton showcases the works of photographers from Jammu and Kashmir, the Naxal region and the Northeast India.

For a detalied Programme Schedule please click HERE


For more information, interview requests etc please contact:

Ms Binalakshmi Nepram & Team,
Founder, Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network,
Secretary-General, Control Arms Foundation of India
B 5/146, First Floor, Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi – 110029

Phone: +91-11- 46018541, Mobile: +91-9868233373, Fax: +91-11-26166234
Email: Binalakshmi@gmail.com

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