Control Arms Foundation of India

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India: One-day consultation on gun violence survivors’ rights

Manipur Women Survivors Gun Network and Control Arms Foundation of India, IANSA members in India, conducted a one-day community consultation to commemorate the Week of Action. The consultation highlighted survivors’ rights in conflict-ridden zones and called on the government to provide victim assistance and include provisions for it in the ATT. It also included a screening of the film, “The story of Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network” and a discussion on the UNPoA. Panelists included several professors from Manipur University and civil society representatives including Mrs.

India: IANSA member launches new website

The Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network has launched a new website to highlight its work in the northeast region of India ‘lifting women above the trauma and agony faced in armed conflict by helping them to find ways to heal the scars that decades of violence have caused to the community’. Visit the website at: http://www.womensurvivorsnetwork.org/

India: IANSA member nominated for public service award

Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network has been nominated for a CNN IBN Indian of the Year Award 2011 in the category for ‘Public service’. The Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network was founded in 2004 to support women survivors of gun violence in Manipur, India.

International Day of Peace - 21 September

Millions of people, including IANSA members, all over the world marked the International Day of Peace on 21 September.

IANSA member in India honoured for work with women gun survivors

Binalakshmi Nepram of the Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network (MWGSN) and Control Arms Foundation of India (CAFI) has been awarded the annual Real Heroes Prize

India: Women survivors of armed violence demand strong ATT

The Control Arms Foundation of India and Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network held a successful meeting in Imphal, Manipur on the India side of the Indo-Burma border.

India: Succesful discussion on India and the ATT

Control Arms Foundation of India (CAFI) report that their second event for the Week of Action 2011, a panel discussion on gun violence in India and the ATT, was a great success.

India: Students learn about arms control

Hundreds of students attended a lecture organised by the Control Arms Foundation of India, held by Professor of Sociology Ms. Elizabeth Imti on the proliferation of guns & gun violence and the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in Mokokchung Nagaland, Northeastern India.

Manipuri Women Gun Survivors Network in blog article
A post on the International Development Exchange blog describes a meeting with women gun survivors in Manipur
Global Day of Action Against Military Spending in India

The Control Arms Foundation of India (CAFI) and the Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network observed the Global Day of Action Against Military Spending on 12 April with a drumming event and vigil in New Delhi, India.

Control Arms Foundation of India (CAFI): 5000 Indians die each year due to unregulated arms trade.

'A United Nations Arms Trade Treaty currently being negotiated can help India tackle rising terrorist violence and provide internal security'

IANSA Woman receives peace award

IANSA woman, Binalakshmi Nepram of Control Arms Foundation of India (CAFI) and Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network, has been awarded the Sean MacBride Peace Prize for 2010.

India: IANSA Woman awarded Sean MacBride Peace Prize for 2010

IANSA woman Binalakshmi Nepram of the Manipuri Women Gun Survivors Network, and the Control Arms Foundation of India, has been awarded the Sean MacBride Peace Prize for 2010 by the International Peace Bureau (IPB).