PERU
Who: AI Peru, Red Peruana en Desarme Civil
What: Community consultations, film festival,
and worked with Ministry of Foreign
Affairs on ATT
Where: Chiclayo, Huancayo, Lima
When: March-April 2007
TANZANIA
Who: Tanzania Action Network on Small
Arms (TANSA), HUREPI-TRUST
What: Community consultations, a press
release, a “Day of Action”.
Where: Dar es Salaam
When: April 2007
TRINIDAD and TOBAGO
Who: Women's Institute for Alternative
Development
What: Community and national
consultations, and the formation
of 2 sub-committees for research
and campaigning
Where: Port of Spain
When: April 2007
LESOTHO
Who: Transformation Resource Centre (TRC)
What: Community consultations (including public
meetings and radio talk shows)
Where: Maseru
When: April 2007
BANGLADESH
Who: SAP-International, SAAPE Bangladesh ,
Saferworld, NFASA and the Bangladesh
Development Partnership Centre (BDPC)
What: A Press Conference, a letter and a
memorandumsent to the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs (regarding the government's
submission to the UN SG, and the formation
of a South
Asia Peace Commission respectively)
Where:Dhaka
When: March 2007
SRI LANKA
Who: SASA-Net Sri Lanka, Marga Institute
What: Community consultations, ATT workshop,
working with the Sri Lanka Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and Permanent
Mission of Sri Lanka to UN, consultation
workgroup established
Where: Colombo
When: April 2007
ARGENTINA
Who: Amnesty International Argentina, Red
Argentina para el Desarme (RAD)
What: Meeting with the Mercosur Arms Group
(petition submitted by NGOs), a
seminar on ATT, and a national survey
on SALW and the ATT
Where: Buenos Aires
When: March 2007
COLUMBIA
Who: REDEPAZ (Columbian peace network),
CLAVE, CERAC, Plan desarme
What: Meeting with Foreign Affairs Minister,
meeting
with senators and congressional
representatives, a public event, and a
position document on the ATT sent to
the government
Where: Bogota
When: March / April 2007
GUATEMALA
Who: IEPADES, Oxfam
What: Meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs,
and letters sent to the government
concerning the submission to the UN SG
Where: Guatemala
When: March / April 2007
HAITI
Who: Haitian Campaign on Gun Violence
(HCGV), Oxfam, OFAT
What: Meetings with government officials, and a
position document sent to ministers and
other officials
Where: Port-au-Prince
When: March / April 2007
MEXICO
Who: Oxfam GB in Mexico
What: Meeting with Ulises Canchola (Director,
Ministry
of Foreign Affairs), ATT document sent to
government, and a seminar
Where: Mexico City
When: April 2007
PARAGUAY
Who: Amnesty International Paraguay
What: Community consultations, and a
public music concert (with ATT
questionnaire)
Where: Asuncion
When: April 2007
BAHRAIN
Who: Amnesty International Bahrain
What: Advertisements in newspapers, SMS
campaign, and media (press) coverage
Where: Manama
When: March / April 2007
SERBIA
Who: The Balkan Youth Union (BYU), EBCO
Balkans, House of Youth (HoY),
Zajecar Initiative
What: Regional and National consultations,
advocacy letters sent to the
government and media, flyers and
posters distributed, government
lobbied, a consultation with
government officials and CSOs
Where: Nis , Zajecar, Belgrade
When: March / April 2007
MACEDONIA
Who: The Journalists for Children and
Women's Rights and Protection of the
Environment in
Macedonia (JCWE)
What: Day of training and promotion of the
translation of an SALW dictionary into
Macedonian and
Albanian (with media coverage)
Where: Skopje
When: March 2007
LEBANON
Who: Permanent Peace Movement
What: Community consultations, events
(involving government and CSOs),
submission of ATT and consultation
documents to government, and a press
conference
Where: Ansarieh, Beirut , Mount Lebanon ,
When: March / April 2007
BURKINA FASO
Who: Amnesty International Burkina,
L'Association des Femmes Juristes
du Burkina Faso and IANSA
What: A workshop to launch the consultation,
radio programs and a civil society
government consultation
Where: Ouagadougou
When: March 2007
DR CONGO
Who: Congolese Action Network on Small Arms
(RECAAL), AVRA (Association for Victims
of Repression in Africa )
What: Community consultations, a National
Consultation, press conferences, “Days of
Reflection”, an SALW buy-back event, and
lobbying of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Where: Bukavu, Uvira, Matadi, Kinshasa, Maniema
When: April 2007
BRAZIL
Who: Sou da Paz (in collaboration with other
NGOs)
What: 12 People's Consultations in regions
across the country targeted at specific
groups, the reports of which were handed
to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and a
national consultation (with media
coverage and a final report)
Where: Sao Paulo
When: March 2007
Links: www.soudapaz.org/controlarms
BURUNDI
Who: La Colonie des Pionniers de
Développement (CPD), La Bonne
Generation du Burundi (BGB), Youth for
Security Club
What: Community consultations, a national consultation
and other events including
workshops, seminars, a public march,
public campaigns and petitions (Control
Arms tour and Million Faces), radio
programmes, a press conference, and
a theatre performance
Where: Bubanza, Cibitoke, Ma Kamba, de
Bujumbura, Ngozi , Bujumbura, Kayanza
and Muramvya
When: March-April 2007
FIJI
Who: The Pacific Concerns Resource Centre
(PCRC), Pacific Foundation of the
Advancement of Women (PACFAW)
What: National Consultation, a report sent to the
government and to regional security
meetings, Global Week of Action used to
engage the government
Where: Suva
When: April 2007
FRANCE
Who: Institut de Relations Internationales et
Stratégiques (IRIS)
What: Consultation with government officials,
campaigners and industry
representatives
Where: Paris
When: March 2007
CANADA
Who: Amnesty International (French Canadian
Section), Oxfam-Quebec
What: Community consultations, Meeting with
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, e-action, action
cards distributed, publicity stunts (kiosk,
vox populi), and an event (distributed cereal
boxeswith fake guns and SALW info to
schools)
Where: Ottawa , Montreal , Toronto
When: March/April 2007
THAILAND
Who: Non-Violence International
What: Community consultations, surveys,
school visits, online discussions, articles
published in local newspapers, local radio
programmes
Where: North, south, east and west Thailand
When: April-May 2007
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INDIA
Who: Control Arms Foundation of India (CAFI),
Manipuri Women Gun Survivor's Network ,
Assam People's Consultation, SASA-Net
What: Community and national consultations
(resulting in the publication of the
“People's Resolution on Ending Armed
Violence”), including consultations with
women affected by armed violence,
press conferences, a youth workshop,
and a human rights assembly
Where: Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Guwahati
When: March-April 2007
KENYA
Who: Oxfam, Africa Peace Forum (APFO),
Kenya Action Network on Small Arms
(KANSA)
What: Community and national consultations,
lobbying of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Where: Coast region, North Rift region, Nairobi
region, Upper Eastern region, Isiolo,
West Pokot , Garissa
When: March-April 2007
MOZAMBIQUE
Who: Mozambican Force for Crime
Investigation and Social Reinsertion
(FOMICRES)
What: Community Consultations, a National
consultation, and a sculpture
produced from destroyed weapons
Where: Maputo
When: April 2007
NEPAL
Who: SASA Net Nepal (IHRICON, Amnesty
International ( Nepal ), Oxfam Nepal, SAP-
International, INSEC-Human Rights
Organization, Grinso-Nepal, SAP- Nepal)
What: Community consultations, signature
collection, art competition, public talk
(with media coverage), and a paper
presented at the People's SAARC
conference
Where: Itahari, Kathmandu
When: April-May 2007
PHILIPPINES
Who: Philippines Action Network on Small
Arms (PhilANSA)
What: Community consultations across the
country with faith groups, members of the
public and members of the military, and a
national consultation
Where: Bacolod, Cebu, Aklan, Mindanao, Metro
Manila
When: March-April 2007
NIGERIA
Who: Nigerian Action Network on Small Arms
(NANSA), Campaign Against Arms Trade
(CAAT)
What: Community and national consultations
(including lobbying training sessions),
petitioning the government, and
consultations with government
Where: Warri, Kano, Lago, Abuja
When: March-April 2007
RUSSIA
Who: Center for Policy Studies (PIR) and
Saferworld
What: Stakeholder consultation, media
conference and journalism student training
Where: Moscow
When: April 2007
Links: PIR Center
http://pircenter.org/index.php?id=1248&news=3526
SOUTH AFRICA
Who: The Ceasefire Campaign, Institute for
Security Studies, South African Council
of Churches, Gun Free South Africa and
the Coalition for Peace in Africa (COPA)
What: Community consultations, Control Arms
march, consultations with government
officials
Where: Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town
and Durban
When: March-April 2007
SENEGAL
Who: Movement Against Small Arms in West
Africa (MALAO), Fondation Konrad
Adenauer
What: Community consultations, including a
consultation with women's groups
Where: Dakar
When: March 2007
UGANDA
Who: Uganda Action Network on Small Arms
(UANSA), the National Focal Point, the
Regional Centre on Small Arms (RECSA)
What: Community consultations and workshops
(with press coverage), a national
consultation, radio and TV phone-in talk
shows, an essay competition, and visits
to victims of gun violence
Where: Lira, Kampala
When: March-April 2007
