I've been admittedly really lame the last month or two posting updates to my blog - just too much to do and not enough time as always! But today I got this email update about the Arms Trade Treaty from Amnesty and was moved to get on and post it onto my blog.
It's really appalling that in some African states children are turned into soldiers and brutalised....what's even worse is that we're arming them. So please, if you hate the thought of arming an 8 year old boy as much as I do make a donation to their campaign, make a donation to my challenge (which will go straight to Amnesty now) or read up about it and sign up for campaign updates from them directly www.amnesty.org.uk.
Here's the campaign email going round:
This July, governments will draw up the world’s first ever Arms Trade Treaty. We must make sure it’s tough enough to disarm dictators, warlords and human rights abusers. I recently wrote to you about this and if you have not already done so,please donate to our urgent campaign at http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=12286
If this Treaty includes what Amnesty is calling for, it will be the most important human rights victory of our generation.
• It will keep arms and ammunition out of the hands of brutal and repressive regimes. That means no guns and tanks for President Assad to kill and repress the Syrian people with.
• It will stop guns pouring into conflict zones. So state forces and militia groups in Somalia will no longer be able to give AK-47s to 8-year-old children to make them fight and kill.
• It will mean no weapons can be sold to human rights abusers. Not to warlords whose fighters rape women at gunpoint. Not to security forces who carry out executions and ‘disappearances’. Not to torturers who use guns to intimidate, repress and torment.
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