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And from the slums of Rio to the bloody conflict in the Congo, the most common weapon used to kill, maim, rape and terrorize innocent people is the gun.

Yet, unlike weapons of mass destruction, the proliferation of guns, and other conventional arms, is dangerously unregulated.

The right of countries to national defense is clear. But countries also have a responsibility to make sure that arms they buy or sell are not used to commit human rights abuses or to undermine development.

In 2006, the world can make the first step towards bringing the arms trade under control, by starting negotiations on an international Arms Trade Treaty.

This treaty would ban all arms sales where there is a clear risk that those weapons will be used to break international law.

What we are calling for is not revolutionary. It simply consolidates countries' existing and emerging obligations under international law into a universal standard for arms sales. But it has the power to save hundreds of thousands of lives around the world. Over 45 countries have already given their support.

In 100 days time, UN member states will meet in New York for the second world conference on small arms. We call on the Somalia government to champion global controls on the small arms trade at that meeting.

If this is achieved, negotiations on an Arms Trade Treaty could start later this year. If it is not, irresponsible arms sales will continue to fuel suffering and poverty around the world.

Yours sincerely

Mary Robinson (Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights)
Jody Williams (Nobel Peace Laureate)
Lt. General Romeo Dallaire (Former Commander of UN Forces in Rwanda)
Dr Oscar Arias (Nobel Peace Laureate)
The Albert Schweitzer Institute (Nobel Peace Laureate)
Arundhati Roy (Author and Activist)
Abukar Albadri, Peace Activist and IANSA-Somalia coordinator

To sign the petition for an Arms Trade Treaty, go to www.controlarms.org

ENDS
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Report from the Control Arms Campaign: Oxfam International, Amnesty International and International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA).

UN arms embargoes are systematically violated and must be urgently strengthened if they are to stop weapons fuelling human rights abuses, according to a report being presented to the UN Security Council today (Thursday).

According to the Control Arms Campaign every one of the 13 UN arms embargoes imposed in the last decade has been repeatedly violated. And despite hundreds of embargo breakers being named in UN reports, only a handful have been successfully prosecuted.

“Over the past ten years systematic violations of United Nations arms embargoes have met with almost no successful prosecutions. Unscrupulous arms dealers continue to get away with grave human rights abuses and make a mockery of the UN Security Council’s efforts, “said Irene Khan, Amnesty International’s Secretary General.

Control Arms campaigners will today appeal to the UN Security Council for states to strengthen the enforcement of UN embargoes. They will argue for a raft of new measures, including the urgent agreement of an International Arms Trade Treaty.

This Treaty would enable governments to act in unison to strictly control conventional arms transfers, thereby creating the conditions for UN arms embargoes to be properly respected. Since the Campaign began in October 2003, over 45 countries have stated their support for such a treaty.

According to the report:
• UN investigative teams tasked with monitoring the embargoes are given woefully inadequate resources and time.

• Despite UN mandatory arms embargoes being legally binding under international law, many states have not even made violating an embargo a criminal offence.

• Arms export, import and freight documents are routinely faked and state officials often cover up arms transfers.

• UN peacekeepers are sometimes not trained to adequately record markings on weapons, while UN missions do not have adequate means to monitor ports of entry in embargoed zones.

“Illegal arms dealers are getting away with murder on a daily basis. Embargoes must be strengthened but even then they will remain a blunt instrument. They are often imposed by the UN Security Council on the basis of politics rather than principles and are usually deployed too late to save lives. The world urgently needs an Arms Trade Treaty if we’re to stop weapons getting into the wrong hands,” said Barbara Stocking, Oxfam’s Director.

According to campaigners, between 1990 and 2001 only 8 of 57 conflicts had UN arms embargoes imposed. Even when UN embargoes were agreed, it was generally only once a conflict had begun. An Arms Trade Treaty would provide a broader framework to prevent weapons being sold before wars start or human rights abuses reach their peak. This would also enable tougher enforcement of UN embargoes according to common standards based on international law.

Today, Control Arms campaigners from around the world will also be marking 100 days to go until the UN world conference on small arms in June. During the next 100 days, campaigners in 110 countries will be holding marches, concerts and stunts to put pressure on their leaders to support an Arms Trade Treaty.
SOMALIA
On 16 March GLED Somalia will host a workshop engaging in discussion with arms dealers in Baidoa, Somalia. They are also organising a 3 day workshop for 100 parliamentarians in Baidoa where the government is based. They will brief the parliamentarians and introduce and discuss the Global Principles, the Model Resolution, the UN Firearms Protocol as well as control measures related specifically to Somalia. They will ask parliamentarians to sign up to the Million Faces Petition and tell them about the Community Safety project that GLED is running

“In the 100 days until the UN world conference on small arms starts, an estimated 100,000 people will be killed with arms and many more will be injured and suffer severely in other ways from armed violence. Today, people from Kenya to Canada to Chile will be calling on their leaders to demand global controls to stop weapons falling into the wrong hands,” said Rebecca Peters, Director of the International Action Network on Small Arms.

Over 800,000 people in 160 countries have already given their photographs to the Million Faces Petition, which is the world’s largest photo petition, calling on leaders to back stricter controls on the arms trade. It will be delivered at the June conference, representing the million people who have been killed by arms since the last UN conference on small arms in 2001.

ENDS

Further information

For more information or to request advanced copy report, please contact:

GLED Somalia: Abukar Albadri on +2521572300 or +2521217098
Oxfam: Clare Rudebeck on +44 1865 47 2530 or +44 7769 887 139.
Amnesty: James Dyson on + 44 207 413 5831 or +44 7795628367
IANSA: Anthea Lawson: +44 20 7065 0875 +44 7900 242 869

Editor’s notes:
The Control Arms Campaign is a joint initiative by Amnesty International, Oxfam International and the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA). It aims to reduce arms proliferation and misuse and to convince governments to introduce a binding arms trade treaty.
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Embargoed until 00.01 GMT on Thursday 16 March, 2006



Report from the Control Arms Campaign: Oxfam International, Amnesty International and International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA).

UN arms embargoes are systematically violated and must be urgently strengthened if they are to stop weapons fuelling human rights abuses, according to a report being presented to the UN Security Council today (Thursday).

According to the Control Arms Campaign every one of the 13 UN arms embargoes imposed in the last decade has been repeatedly violated. And despite hundreds of embargo breakers being named in UN reports, only a handful have been successfully prosecuted.

“Over the past ten years systematic violations of United Nations arms embargoes have met with almost no successful prosecutions. Unscrupulous arms dealers continue to get away with grave human rights abuses and make a mockery of the UN Security Council’s efforts, “said Irene Khan, Amnesty International’s Secretary General.

Control Arms campaigners will today appeal to the UN Security Council for states to strengthen the enforcement of UN embargoes. They will argue for a raft of new measures, including the urgent agreement of an International Arms Trade Treaty.

This Treaty would enable governments to act in unison to strictly control conventional arms transfers, thereby creating the conditions for UN arms embargoes to be properly respected. Since the Campaign began in October 2003, over 45 countries have stated their support for such a treaty.

According to the report:
• UN investigative teams tasked with monitoring the embargoes are given woefully inadequate resources and time.

• Despite UN mandatory arms embargoes being legally binding under international law, many states have not even made violating an embargo a criminal offence.

• Arms export, import and freight documents are routinely faked and state officials often cover up arms transfers.

• UN peacekeepers are sometimes not trained to adequately record markings on weapons, while UN missions do not have adequate means to monitor ports of entry in embargoed zones.

“Illegal arms dealers are getting away with murder on a daily basis. Embargoes must be strengthened but even then they will remain a blunt instrument. They are often imposed by the UN Security Council on the basis of politics rather than principles and are usually deployed too late to save lives. The world urgently needs an Arms Trade Treaty if we’re to stop weapons getting into the wrong hands,” said Barbara Stocking, Oxfam’s Director.

According to campaigners, between 1990 and 2001 only 8 of 57 conflicts had UN arms embargoes imposed. Even when UN embargoes were agreed, it was generally only once a conflict had begun. An Arms Trade Treaty would provide a broader framework to prevent weapons being sold before wars start or human rights abuses reach their peak. This would also enable tougher enforcement of UN embargoes according to common standards based on international law.

Today, Control Arms campaigners from around the world will also be marking 100 days to go until the UN world conference on small arms in June. During the next 100 days, campaigners in 110 countries will be holding marches, concerts and stunts to put pressure on their leaders to support an Arms Trade Treaty.
SOMALIA
On 16 March GLED Somalia will host a workshop engaging in discussion with arms dealers in Baidoa, Somalia. They are also organising a 3 day workshop for 100 parliamentarians in Baidoa where the government is based. They will brief the parliamentarians and introduce and discuss the Global Principles, the Model Resolution, the UN Firearms Protocol as well as control measures related specifically to Somalia. They will ask parliamentarians to sign up to the Million Faces Petition and tell them about the Community Safety project that GLED is running

“In the 100 days until the UN world conference on small arms starts, an estimated 100,000 people will be killed with arms and many more will be injured and suffer severely in other ways from armed violence. Today, people from Kenya to Canada to Chile will be calling on their leaders to demand global controls to stop weapons falling into the wrong hands,” said Rebecca Peters, Director of the International Action Network on Small Arms.

Over 800,000 people in 160 countries have already given their photographs to the Million Faces Petition, which is the world’s largest photo petition, calling on leaders to back stricter controls on the arms trade. It will be delivered at the June conference, representing the million people who have been killed by arms since the last UN conference on small arms in 2001.

ENDS

Further information

For more information or to request advanced copy report, please contact:

GLED Somalia: Abukar Albadri on +2521572300 or +2521217098
Oxfam: Clare Rudebeck on +44 1865 47 2530 or +44 7769 887 139.
Amnesty: James Dyson on + 44 207 413 5831 or +44 7795628367
IANSA: Anthea Lawson: +44 20 7065 0875 +44 7900 242 869

Editor’s notes:
The Control Arms Campaign is a joint initiative by Amnesty International, Oxfam International and the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA). It aims to reduce arms proliferation and misuse and to convince governments to introduce a binding arms trade treaty.
]]> Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:07:00 EST http://albadri114.tigblog.org/post/36673 2.0666667 45.36666672.066666745.3666667 http://albadri114.tigblog.org/post/35139 In Somalia the term "Democratic" is completely miss-understood. It's seen an outsider driven forces or ideology, which the outsider himself/herself has deep interest to change the people from their culture to his believes, so that GELD met difficulties from the stakeholders that they believe GLED is changing the culture of the people into foreign cult, but achieved to influence the people to persuade the exact meaning of the democracy at least some percentages in its live time.
“The Gun Kills but the Pen Teaches”
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G8 member states are undermining their commitments to poverty reduction, stability and human rights with irresponsible arms exports to some of the world's poorest and most conflict-ridden countries, according to new research issued today. G8 weapons have been exported to countries including Sudan, Myanmar (Burma), the Republic of Congo, Colombia and the Philippines.

On the eve of a meeting of G8 foreign ministers in London (23-24 June), a new report reveals how the G8 countries -- Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the UK and the USA -- are still supplying military equipment, weapons and munitions to destinations where they contribute to gross violations of human rights.

"Each year hundreds of thousands of people are killed, tortured, raped and displaced through the misuse of arms. How can G8 commitments to end poverty and injustice be taken seriously if some of the very same governments are undermining peace and stability by deliberately approving arms transfers to repressive regimes, regions of extreme conflict or countries who can ill-afford them?" said the Secretary General of Amnesty International, Irene Khan.

The report from Amnesty International, Oxfam International and the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) makes a clear case for the G8 to support the call from the UK government and 10 other countries for an international Arms Trade Treaty.

“This research shows that, as well as the G8 being responsible for more than 80% of the world’s arms exports, they persist in selling weapons that oppress the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. G8 foreign ministers meeting this week must back the Arms Trade Treaty and agree a process to make it happen," said Barbara Stocking, Director of Oxfam.

The report, The G8: Global arms exporters - Failing to prevent irresponsible arms transfers, exposes a series of loopholes and weaknesses in arms export controls common across many G8 countries:

• Canadian military exports to countries involved in armed conflict or human rights abuse including light armoured vehicles and helicopters to Saudi Arabia and aircraft engines and handguns to the Philippines;
• French exports in the UN category of "Bombs, grenades, ammunition, mines and other" to countries subject to European Union arms embargoes such as Myanmar and Sudan;
• The use of German components in military equipment destined for countries involved in serious human rights violations such as German engines incorporated into military vehicles that have ended up in Myanmar;
• A loophole in Italian law allowing large quantities of so-called "civilian firearms" to be exported to countries suffering gross human rights violations such as Colombia, the Republic of Congo, and China;
• Russian exports of heavy weaponry including combat aircraft to states whose forces commit human rights violations such as Ethiopia, Algeria, and Uganda;
• Substantial US military aid to states carrying out persistent human rights violations including Pakistan, Nepal and Israel;
• Japan's export of small arms and light weapons to countries with poor human rights records such as the Philippines;
• The lack of control on UK equipment that can be used for torture or ill-treatment and the UK’s increased use of "open licences" that allow companies to make multiple shipments without adequate scrutiny.

The examples included in the report show why a tough and enforceable Arms Trade Treaty is urgently needed. It should be international, legally-binding and based on international law -- especially human rights and humanitarian law -- because these universal standards if observed, would save lives, prevent suffering and protect livelihoods.

"In view of the massive loss of life and destruction of property and livelihood's fuelled by irresponsible arms transfers, the G8 must turn rhetoric into reality and push for negotiations to start on an Arms Trade Treaty by 2006. To do anything less would be a disgraceful betrayal of the millions of men, women and children subject to human rights violations and fear of armed violence every day," said Rebecca Peters, Director of the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA).

Background
The Control Arms campaign was launched by Amnesty International, Oxfam International and the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) in October 2003. It aims to reduce arms proliferation and misuse and to convince governments to introduce a binding arms trade treaty.

For more information, please contact:
Amnesty International: James Dyson. +44 (0)2074135831. Mobile: +44 (0)07795628367. jdyson@amnesty.org
Oxfam: Clare Rudebeck. + 44 (0)1865 312 530. Mobile + 44 (0) 7769 887 139 crudebeck@oxfam.org.uk
IANSA: Alun Howard. +44 (0) 207 7065 0866. Mobile +44 (0) 7900 242 869

Contact person of Somalia:
Abukar Albadri,
P.O.Box: 205 Mogadishu
BN 03040 Somalia
Mobile: +2521 572300
Email: albadri10@yahoo.com
Mogadishu Somalia
]]> Sat, 25 Jun 2005 05:27:00 EDT http://albadri114.tigblog.org/post/25557 2.0666667 45.36666672.066666745.3666667 http://albadri114.tigblog.org/post/25406 GLOBAL WEEK OF ACTION AGAINST SMALL ARMS
(From 6th –12th June 2005)Mogadishu Somalia
1. INTRODUCTION



Nothing that, the universal declaration of human rights Art. 1 proclaims, “all human being are born free and equal in dignity and rights, they are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brother hood.



Nothing that, the universal declaration of human rights Art. 2, which proclaim that, every one is entitled with out distinction of any kind such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political, or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.



Considering that, the universal declaration of human rights Art. 3 proclaims, “Every one has the right to live liberty and the security of a person”



We are putting forward that we established a Organization, which will be speaking up for the Democracy Human Rights particularly the rights of women, minorities and children, which we named SOMALIA’S GREEN LEAF FOR DEMOCRACY.



SOMALIA’S GREEN LEAF FOR DEMOCRACY – GLED is the result of 8 days workshop debates about HOW THE DEMOCRACY IS IN SOMALIA, which was organized by a Forum called Y.D.M.F (Youth For Democratic Movements Forum).



72% of the participants of that workshop suggested the need of a system that bases democratic environment to set up Justice, equality, gender balance and good governance through youth organizations and younger generation.

This organization’s mandate include to promote Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for Children youth of the World, to protect human rights violation principally; women, children, minorities and weak people whose rights had been destroyed by the different administrations, military regime and the warlords in the conflict period.

From the time established up to date this organization stands to transform the violating culture of the young generation into Culture of Peace and Non-Violence. And mechanically use as tool for the developments of youth organizations/networks/groups in the country.


Week of action Somalia 2005
The Global week of action against small arms is the first time to organize in Somalia since the week of action was started in 2003.

Green Leaf for democracy-GLED organized wider campaign on small arms, in the events of the week of Action in Somalia from 6th – 12th June 2005.

Since 1991, there is no central government in Somalia for more than 14 years, when the military regime led by Gen. Mohamed Siad Barre was ousted from the authority by disgruntled rebels.

From that time up to date, the country is in critical situation and wider unrest of clan related conflict and confrontations, those engulfed the lives of more than five hundred thousands (500,000) people with in the past 15 years of the civil war.

From 1992, the frontline states and the countries of Yemen, Libya, Eritrea, Egypt, Ukraine, Former Soviet union and Former Yugoslavian countries send weapons and military means to Somalia and broke down the United Nations’ arms embargo on Somalia for the resolution number 733 (1992) January 23, 1992.

When the military equipments in the country inserted the hands of the civilians, wider destruction started, People were massacred, all human rights violations started to happen in Somalia.

Innocent killing, kidnapping for Ransoms, raping, looting, harassment, land confiscations, robbing, hijacking and other abuses become the daily events that every person in Somalia worrying to meet, when experiencing traumatic events met in the past time the number of displaced people increase continually, street children child soldier and children who lost parents increase as the result of the weapons flooding in Somalia is the fighting that is going in Somalia now in the regions of Hiiraan, Mudug, Galgalud, Bakol, Bay, Gedo, and so on that twenty people die per day, while the number of the casualty is more than that and the displacement and ethnicity revenge are also difficulty issues against the well being of the people in Somalia, because when a militia man is killed, the revenge is to kill useful person from the other side like; mullah, intellectual, civil society activist, for ethnicity only but not committed crime.


2. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ORGANIZATION


SOMALIA’S GREEN LEAF FOR DEMOCRACY (GLED) is a local non-governmental Organizations, which is aimed to guide the people a democratic environment to reach sustainable Life and has integrated people-centered development strategy. The concept of sustainable Life and Democracy has been a central matter in development strategies since the establishment of GLED 2001.

GLED is geared towards the improvement of the living standards of the concern for the long-term realism of development programs, the health of the environment and people's control over the processes that affects them such as Policy, Education, sanitation, and mobilization of HIV/AIDS.



In Somalia the term "Democratic" is completely miss-understood. It's seen an outsider driven forces or ideology, which the outsider himself has deep interest to change the people from their culture to his believes, so that GELD met difficulties from the stakeholders that they believe GLED is changing the culture of the people into foreign cult, but GLED achieved to influence the people the exact meaning of the democracy at least some percentages in its live time.

The background of this Organization goes back to the year it was established in Dec. 2001.



3. THE TYPE OF THE ORGANIZATION IN DETAIL



Democratic and human rights organization led by youth, particularly to sound up the rights of women, children, and the minority people and it is also non – benefit and non – governmental organization.



4. VISION OF THE ORGANIZATION



The solution of the basic problems facing the lives of the youth, women, children and vulnerable people who are the most damaged society in the countrywide problems.
The achievement to integrate the people specially youth through democracy and pluralism is good beginning from the families, communities, societies and governments to establish well-integrated and equal right citizenship nation.
The realization of peace and democracy in the country is to launch good Life from the bottom line of the society to the community Elders and the CBO and CSO.

The direct philosophy of GLED is to encourage the four freedoms by establishing group:-
I. Freedom of speech.
II. Freedom of worship.
III. Freedom from want.
IV. Freedom From Fear.



5. MISSION OF THE ORGANIZATION



To form a reformation campaign that transforms the young generation from violence into culture that promotes peace and democracy.
To empower youth, children and adolescents those are the cornerstones of the population to prepare peaceful democratic leaders in the coming future, with internship programs.
To form strong base for women and children rights by uplifting their living standard of socio-economic and education.
To eliminate any form of discrimination among the people.
To improve the living conditions of the Somali youth rest of the population through education/skills empowerment, job creation and raising systematic advocacy to influence government, political parts, Community, local and international Organization policy to support Youth groups attain the leading role of the future.

To fight against poverty, Tropical diseases and HIV/Aids.



6. ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES



1) Raise awareness about the need of a Culture of Peace and non-violence with socially and politically.

2) Youth empowerment, gender promotion and child protection

3) Developing the ICT Environment and the information exchange between youngsters and business people.

4) Fighting against HIV/Aids and epidemic and tropical diseases creating campaigns and activities to decrease their scale.

5) To reach Justice, Equality, Democracy and equal citizenship.



7. COMMITMENTS



a. Commitment Trusteeship

b. Networking Transparency.

c. Performance team working.

d. Peace culture and Pluralism.



8. PRINCIPLES.



Justice, Equality, Democracy rights protection



9. DEVELOPMENT PHILOSOPHY



So most of the people in general want every dignity and prosperity for themselves and their families, we have to remember that every body in the universe has as much rights to the happiness and good effects of this world, as every body does. We should all try to bear one another burdens by acts helpfulness when the need a rise “In the eyes of Allah all people are equal”

Every person regardless of his position in life has a dignity and importance for greater than the lower animals, he/she is human being and should be heated as such.


10. VALUE FOCUS
To be created awareness by informing that every one is entitled to all the rights and Freedoms, with out distinction of any kind such as Race, Colors, Sex, Language, Political, Or Other Opinion, National Or social Origin, Property, Birth or other status, through mass Media and providing seminars and workshops and E.T.C.
To be eliminated and protected that no one should be subjected to torture or to cruel, in human or degrading treatment or punishment by introducing the people that all people are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law
To be encouraged that every person has the right to live liberty and the security of the person, as well as introducing that every one is entitled in full equity to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him, from the government, political parties and politicians and ETC.
Strengthening of education, including health education with special emphasis on the dangers and undesirability of female circumcision through Somali regions and districts.
And intensification of especial education programs for Traditional Birth Attendants (T.B.A) and midwives, healers, and other practitioners of traditional medicine to demonstrate the harmful effect of female circumcision with a view to enlarging their support for general efforts to abolish the practice of FGM.
Training and development of female surveyors to asses the current status and urgent concerns of women specially those who have been subjected to violence and trauma and establishment of a trained and qualified network appropriate service provides who will create support group and individual counseling for women.
To support privately owned business in pluralism and creating new jobs for the young generation and households, to reduce unemployment problems.
To encourage the children to take an active part in schooling and the other technical institutions, particularly for them since they are the most backward element in the Somali society and to abolish the child abuse including (Child Labor, soldier and slavery)
To be created skills for orphans, street children, drug addicted children and who miss their parents in the civil war; those are escalating a day after a day in the streets so as to integrate them in the society with safety and good life.
To create campaigns that to be reduced the crisis, catastrophes and political disturbances those are the most setbacks of African nations and the worst decease of African leaders.



11. WEEK OF ACTION OBJECTIVES



1. To mobilize the people about the risk of small arms.

2. To raise the awareness of the people and the government officials to the rules of the arms and Universal conventions on arms.

3. To promote the parliament officials to ratify the Arms Trade Treaty.

4. To encourage the peace activities in Somalia specially the security of the capital city.



12. ACTIVITIES DONE



6th June 2005: Press conference was held in BYC conference room, and press statements about the situation of Arms in Somalia (when, where and how) weapons reach in Somalia was given to the Media.



7th June 2005: Debate about the hazards of small arms LIVE in local Radio, a military expert was sitting in the studio and the people was asking him about the arms.



8th June 2005: Participation of the removal of the roadblocks in Mogadishu, the capital city, GLED Somalia published and scattered on the roads slogans in small papers “No roadblock, No extortion”, at least 7 main roadblocks out of 43 roadblocks in Mogadishu were taken.



9th June 2005: Live radio program, Abukar Albadri, the week of Action coordinator was sitting in the studio room and explained the risks of the arms, the importance of peace and the UN firearms protocol, the people was asking live questions and he was answering.



10th June 2005: The LIVE program of the 9th June was revised.



11th June 2005: Soccer Game between SOS vs. TOP.



The game was going on 90 minutes, the intended time ended 2-2 but the referee added more time to give the teams to start free shoots.

SOS football team won 4-2 on the TOP football team.

Hassan Ali Gessey From Benadir Radio was reporting the game.



12th June 2005: the Closing ceremony



GLED coordinating team invited 200 people from the different parts of the community, civil society organizations, education sections, child protection organizations/networks, human rights organizations, media and military experts in SAHAFI Hotel International; the invitees included government officials and the speaker of the Transitional Federal Parliament Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aadan.

The ceremony was going on two hours starting from 10:00 am upto 12:00pm.



Abdulahi Ahmed Hassan, a producer from Banadir Radio was coordinating the ceremony.



1. Abukar Albadri, The Coordinator of the week of Action in Somalia first was welcomed to the microphone.
He explained the information about the Global week of Action against arms 2005 and the situation of the weapons and when, where, and how weapons reach in Somalia.
He also explained the Arms Trade Treaty –ATT and requested the Parliament officials to promote the ratification of the ATT.
Albadri Finally gave his thanks to the participants and special gratitude to the speaker of the parliament then suggested to the people of Somalia to Put the Guns and change them into PENS.

2. Abdulkani Said Arab, the secretary general of Somali football federation –SFF was also welcomed to the microphone.
Arab encouraged the peace and supported the suggestion of Albadri about the ratification of ATT.

3. Drs. Asha Ahmed Abdalla, a Member of the Parliament and security committee of the capital city addressed how the activities of her committee are going on and explained how the risk of the arms effected her family, while she was out of the country for 30 years.
Asha supported the initiative to ratify the ATT and pledged that she will support the ATT lobby if starts.

4. Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan, the speaker of the Transitional Federal Parliament finally was welcomed to the microphone.
He spoke in his many parts of the live of the community, like: security, socio-economy, politically and the ATT.
the speaker promoted the ratification and supported the initiative to promote the ATT.



The speaker relinquish the institutions those participated the activities of the WOA, honor Certificates signed by the Coordinator of the WOA Abukar albadri, to reward for their efforts during the activities.



1. Somali Football federation-SFF was given honor certificate, Abdulkani Said Arab; the secretary general of SFF received of behalf of them.

2. Banadir Youth Council-BYC was given Honor certificate, Omar Jeloa Gazi, deputy of BYC received the certificate on behalf of BYC.

3. Banadir Radio was given certificate, Hassan Ali Gesey, a producer from the radio received the certificate on behalf of them.

4. Ayaamaha Printing and Publishing House –APPH was given certificate and Abdulahi Mohammed Hassan (Black) Editor of Ayaamaha News paper received the certificate on behalf of Ayaamaha.

5. SOS Football team was given the cup of the WOA by the Speaker after they won the soccer game.
Both teams were given Honor Certificates for their participation of the Global week of Action against small arms 2005 in Somalia.



13. ACTIONS TAKEN



Posters:

Two hundred Posters were sent to the safety places, the posters were containing Slogans and Images showing the dangers of the guns, those adopted the people’s opinion well.

The slogans on the posters include:

· Let‘s see Somali free from Gun.

· No one has right to own his Gun, but has right to live in peace and security.

· The one who are giving us Guns are killing us whole.

· The risk that damaged your self is in your hand.

· Remove the arms from the community.

Stickers:

The stickers contained slogans and images those are directly affecting the live of the people.

The images on the stickers were AK74 guns, Pens and balls and the messages they give were:



1. PUT THE GUN, TAKE THE PEN with its meaning of Somali language

2. PUT THE GUN, TAKE THE BALL with its meaning of Somali language



The stickers and some posters that were printed as stickers were laminated on the doors of the schools, public places, hotels, cars, walls.



The intended posters were 200 pieces, but when the need of the people increased, GLED increased the number of porters into 100 more pieces.



14. MEDIA PARTICIPATION ON WOA:

Media participated the WOA 2005 in Somalia widely and, a Radio and Newspapers was publishing daily article about the Global week of Action against small arms Somalia 2005, and other media were participating all the events of the WOA.

Benadir Radio was working with the coordinating team and was broadcasting 7 minutes program daily, also made two interviews about the program, two LIVE Debates and aired the speech of the speaker of the parliament totally.

The media those participated or reported the programs of the WOA are:-

A. Radios:

Banadir Radio, Shabelle Radio, Horn Afrik Radio, Capital Voice Radio and BBC Somali and Arabic Services.

B. News Agencies:

The Middle East News Agency-MENA published the program to its customers, because its reporter in Mogadishu interviewed Abukar Albadri and reported the event.

C. Newspapers:

Ayaamaha newspaper, Codka Xuriyadda, Mogadishu Times, Bilan Newspaper, Qaran Newspaper are all the local newspapers those published articles about the global week of action against small arms Somalia 2005.

D. Online Newspapers:

www.markacadeey.com, www.puntlandpost.com, www.somaliweyn.com, www.mudugonline.com, are also the online Somali media those published the programs and articles about Global week of action against small arms in Somalia 2005, to promote the Somali people in Diaspora.



E. Experts:

Two military experts from the former Military of Somalia, Col. Hassan Jumale and Col. Ibrahim Mohamoud was leading the role about the small arms and its risk inside the community.

They made LIVE debates and answered the people about the knowledge of the small arms.

They made comments about the formal images on the Posters and the stickers.



15. OUT COME:



The outcome of the WOA 2005 in Somalia is good indicator of the need of the programs to mobilize the community safety.



1. Percentage of the people in Somalia particularly in Mogadishu raised their awareness about the small arms, that they keep in their houses to keep their security but vise versa.

2. Media got information about when, where, and how arms reach in Somalia, the resolutions of United Nations on Somalia and the countries those broke down the UN arms embargo on Somalia (resolution 733 (1992) Jan. 23 1992. and also they got copy of the Arms Trade Treaty-ATT.

3. Somalia neither signed nor ratified the Arms Trade Treaty, so that the speaker of the parliament promoted the ratification of ATT.

4. Members of the Transitional Federal Parliament got also copies of the ATT and pledged that they will give their vote when GLED starts to lobby the ratification of the ATT and the local constitutional rules on the arms.



16. ORGANIZATION THOSE PARTICIPATED THE PROGRAM:



GREEN leaf for democracy –GLED Somalia organized the campaign but the following organization gave hand to facilitate the activities.



A. Mogadishu:

1. Somalia Football Federation – SFF.

2. Ayaamaha Printing and Publishing house – APPH

3. Banadir Radio

4. Benadir Youth Council – BYC



B. Hodur- Bakol Region:



Center for Peace and Human rights – CPHR



C. Bosaso:



Puntland Students association – PSA

Talowadaag Voluntery Organization – TVO



17. RECOMMENDATIONS



The coordinating team of global week of action against small arms 2005 in Somalia, after committing the activities practically and seen the need of the people in Somalia about the disarmament and reintegration. After having seen the suggestion of the people in Somalia about the need of the campaigns on small arms, after having seen the comments from the GLED boards of Directors about the possibility to run projects about the safety of the community recommend the following articles.

Somali Government to prohibit the individual or group ownership of arms and any kind of weapon and prohibit all kind of arms in the community and safety areas.
Civil society organizations to take multilateral campaigns against arms and fulfill projects relating DDR (Demobilization, disarmament and reintegration of the Militias) in the people and create them skill to manage them-selves.
International community to support the safety programs on Somalia people, to reduce the risk of small arms in Somalia.



18. CONCLUSION

GLED Somalia hopes that the Global week of action against small arms 2005 was good initiative and historical event concerning the most problems that the people have in Somalia, which existed in the past 15 years and made Somalia no man’s land that no body controls.

With references to the week of actions there are mobilization programs that are relating to the safety of the people and their properties.

The campaigns that can be taken to restore the safety of the people include:

PUT THE GUN TAKE THE PEN.
SPORTS FOR PEACE.
LOBBY AND ADVOCACY FOR THE PREPARATION OF LOCAL CONSTITUTIONAL RULES ON ARMS AND RATIFICATION OF INTERNATIONAL RECOGNIZED CONVENTION ON ARMS AND ARMS TRADE TREATY.

________________________________________________________________________



Abukar Albadri



WOA 2005, Country Coordinator

Mogadishu Somalia

Tel: +2521 572300

Email: gled_som@yahoo.com







_______________________________________________________________________
Abukar Albadri
P.O.Box: 205 Mogadishu, BN03040 Somalia
Tel: 002521 271535, Mobile: 002521 572300
Email: albadri10@yahoo.com
Mogadishu - Somalia.
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GLED SOMALIA



GLOBAL WEEK OF ACTION AGAINST SMALL ARMS
(From 6th –12th June 2005) Mogadishu SomaliaFinal Statement

Date: 15/06/2005Introduction


Global week of action against small arms (6-12 June 2005) had events held in 55 countries over the world; it is international campaign, the risks of the small arms globally.

WOA was sponsored globally by International Action network on Small Arms – IANSA and every country has its coordinating role to connect the local programs into global campaign, under the objectives of IANSA.


Week of action Somalia 2005
The Global week of action against small arms is the first time to organize in Somalia since the week of action was started in 2003.

Green Leaf for democracy-GLED organized wider campaign on small arms, in the events of the week of Action in Somalia from 6th – 12th June 2005.

Since 1991, there is no central government in Somalia for more than 14 years, when the military regime led by Gen. Mohamed Siad Barre was ousted from the authority by disgruntled rebels.

From that time up to date, the country is in critical situation and wider unrest of clan related conflict and confrontations, those engulfed the lives of more than five hundred thousands (500,000) people with in the past 15 years of the civil war.

From 1992, the frontline states and the countries of Yemen, Libya, Eritrea, Egypt, Ukraine, Former Soviet union and Former Yugoslavian countries send weapons and military means to Somalia and broke down the United Nations’ arms embargo on Somalia for the resolution number 733 (1992) January 23, 1992.

When the military equipments in the country inserted the hands of the civilians, wider destruction started, People were massacred, all human rights violations started to happen in Somalia.

Innocent killing, kidnapping for Ransoms, raping, looting, harassment, land confiscations, robbing, hijacking and other abuses become the daily events that every person in Somalia worrying to meet, when experiencing traumatic events met in the past time the number of displaced people increase continually, street children child soldier and children who lost parents increase as the result of the weapons flooding in Somalia is the fighting that is going in Somalia now in the regions of Hiiraan, Mudug, Galgalud, Bakol, Bay, Gedo, and so on that twenty people die per day, while the number of the casualty is more than that and the displacement and ethnicity revenge are also difficulty issues against the well being of the people in Somalia, because when a militia man is killed, the revenge is to kill useful person from the other side like; mullah, intellectual, civil society activist, for ethnicity only but not committed crime.



THE WEEK OF ACTION



The WOA happened many parts in Somalia, including Mogadishu, Hudur and Bosaso and the activities going was different.

The capacity of the programs happened in Mogadishu the capital city, but there were other activities like; soccer game in Hudur and Bosaso also hosted other soccer game of the memory of the Week of Action against small arms.

In Mogadishu the Media widely participated the WOA programs, some Radios, News Papers and Online pages published the events of the WOA and Radio Banadir and Ayaamaha News Paper were publishing daily articles about the campaign, Radio Banadir was broadcasting 7 minutes program daily that enabled the program to influence the people and memorize the WOA 2005.

The military experts those participated the program also influenced the people well when they made good metaphors in the local language that the people can understand easily.

“Hadi qori ad qado, dagal filo, hadi qalin ad qado, waxbarasho filo”

“if you take a gun, you expect fighting, if you take a pen, you expect education”

The speaker of the parliament, Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden’s speech was very good means for the campaign, because all the Media broadcasted the speech with out condition in the closing ceremony of 12th June 2005, he is the second person in the country from the president as protocol.

Messages used in the posters, if text or photos and other messages on the slogans and stickers became well done activities that fascinated the eyes of the people well.


THE OUT COMES


The indicators that show the successfulness of WOA 2005 Somalia include the affects and food prints that are still in the mouths of the people, since they heard talk shows, radio programs, interviews about WOA Somalia 2005 from the Media, or read from newspapers or saw from the Published poster, slogans and stickers.

Other indicators include that when the people speak in the debates of the radios they use the messages on the Posters and stickers like “No body has right to have gun, but has right to live in peace” or PUT THE GUN TAKE THE PEN, PUT THE GUN TAKE THE BALL and etc.

The security restoration committee also uses with the messages in the week, those are mandated to remove the roadblocks inside the capital city of Somalia, Mogadishu, when they were speaking to the people through nedia.



APPEALS



According to all above-mentioned information, it is the time for the opportunity to release appeals to the local and international community, government authorities, and UN organizations to look on the situation in Somalia.



We appeal to:-

The countries those are breaking down the UN arms embargo on Somalia, for the resolution number 733 (1992) January 23, 1992, to stop the importation of the weapons inside Somalia, and to stop also giving arms to the rival factions.
Somali government officials to bring rules to control the arms and sign and ratify the arms trade treaty or UN firearms protocol.
The fighting parts in Elwak, Hudur, Baladwein, Mudug, Galgadud, and Baidoa to stop the fighting with out condition and stop the displacement of the people, and take into account that there will be time that all their crimes will be before the justice.
United Nations to take legal steps on the countries, organization or individuals those broke down the UN resolution 733 (1992) 23, January 1992 about the arms embargo in Somalia and the signed ceasefire signed by Somalia’s Faction leaders in Eldoret Kenya, on October 27, 2002 or other wise, this will help terrorist to use Somalia as tool to facilitate their interest.
Somali community to disarm themselves and hand the weapons in their hands over the military and police forces.



REMARKS DURING THE WEEK



ABUKAR ALBADRI, WOA COORDINATOR IN SOMALIA, “it is great day to campaign for peace and take actions against small arms, I recognize that no person has right to have own gun, but every person has right to live in peace and security, so then, it is for the government to bring Rules to control arms or ratify or sign the Arms Trade Treaty –ATT”



SHARIF HASSAN SHEIKH ADAN, THE SPEAKER OF THE PARLIAMENT, “When the world is changing into small village, we live other world different from that, we are under the shades of Poverty, Insecurity, diseases and Illiteracy and all they are the seeds of the arms in ours hands”



ASHA AHMED ABDALLA, MP, “The killer in our hands is not from our factories, it is production from other countries, but was brought here to kill us, I, myself, will support every action against the arms in the parliament”



ABDULKANI SAID ARAB, THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF SOMALI FOOTBALL FEDERATION-SFF, “It is our commitment to be pioneers for the peace and we sacrifice our selves for every action against violence and insecurity and will promote peace, because Sports itself is the pioneer of the peace”.



HUSSEIN NUR ALIO, INTELLECTUAL THAT INTENDED THE CLOSING CEREMONY, “It is very useful to take campaign like this (WOA), but this is not enough to remove a mountain from the road, because to talk about the arms in Somalia is verily bigger than this week of action, but this is good starting”



COL. IBRAHIM MAHAMOUD, A MILITARY EXPERT, “When the weapons are all risk, the light or small arms are more risk in some cases, because unscrupulous people will acquire a gun, then kill the people with out knowledge of the gun and the human rights of a person”



SAHRA MOHAMED, A WOMEN THAT EXPERIENCED MANY TRAUMATIC EVENTS OF GUN, “When I hear bullet I really upset, and when I see a gun, I shock, because of the bad experiences of gun against me and my family meanwhile draw before me”



SALAH MOHAMED ADDE, GLED SECRETARY GENERAL, “It is not only to tell the risks of arms, but when we know the risks we have to take actions against it, so we have to destroy a number of weapons, even a gun that could kill at least one person”



CONCLUSION



On behalf of GLED Somalia coordinating teams of the week of action and the week of action colleagues, I would like to appreciate to the organization those give us hand during the WOA campaign, Somali Football Federation – SFF, Benadir Youth Council-BYC, Ayaamaha Printing and Publishing house – APP, and Benadir Radio for their unforgettable efforts during the campaign of the Global Week Of Action Against Small Arms Somalia 2005.

And also here, gratitude to International Action Network on Small Arms – IANSA for the efforts to promote safe world from arms and evils.



…………………………………………………………………………

Abukar Albadri



WOA 2005, Country Coordinator

Mogadishu Somalia

Tel: +2521 572300

Email: gled_som@yahoo.com



_______________________________________________________________________
Abukar Albadri
P.O.Box: 205 Mogadishu, BN03040 Somalia
Tel: 002521 271535, Mobile: 002521 572300
Email: albadri10@yahoo.com
Mogadishu - Somalia.
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GREEN LEAF FOR DEMOCRACY

GLED SOMALIA



GLOBAL WEEK OF ACTION AGAINST SMALL ARMS

(From 6th –12th June 2005)
Mogadishu Somalia
Final Statement


Date: 15/06/2005
Introduction


Global week of action against small arms (6-12 June 2005) had events held in 55 countries over the world; it is international campaign, the risks of the small arms globally.

WOA was sponsored globally by International Action network on Small Arms – IANSA and every country has its coordinating role to connect the local programs into global campaign, under the objectives of IANSA.



Week of action Somalia 2005
The Global week of action against small arms is the first time to organize in Somalia since the week of action was started in 2003.

Green Leaf for democracy-GLED organized wider campaign on small arms, in the events of the week of Action in Somalia from 6th – 12th June 2005.

Since 1991, there is no central government in Somalia for more than 14 years, when the military regime led by Gen. Mohamed Siad Barre was ousted from the authority by disgruntled rebels.

From that time up to date, the country is in critical situation and wider unrest of clan related conflict and confrontations, those engulfed the lives of more than five hundred thousands (500,000) people with in the past 15 years of the civil war.

From 1992, the frontline states and the countries of Yemen, Libya, Eritrea, Egypt, Ukraine, Former Soviet union and Former Yugoslavian countries send weapons and military means to Somalia and broke down the United Nations’ arms embargo on Somalia for the resolution number 733 (1992) January 23, 1992.

When the military equipments in the country inserted the hands of the civilians, wider destruction started, People were massacred, all human rights violations started to happen in Somalia.

Innocent killing, kidnapping for Ransoms, raping, looting, harassment, land confiscations, robbing, hijacking and other abuses become the daily events that every person in Somalia worrying to meet, when experiencing traumatic events met in the past time the number of displaced people increase continually, street children child soldier and children who lost parents increase as the result of the weapons flooding in Somalia is the fighting that is going in Somalia now in the regions of Hiiraan, Mudug, Galgalud, Bakol, Bay, Gedo, and so on that twenty people die per day, while the number of the casualty is more than that and the displacement and ethnicity revenge are also difficulty issues against the well being of the people in Somalia, because when a militia man is killed, the revenge is to kill useful person from the other side like; mullah, intellectual, civil society activist, for ethnicity only but not committed crime.



THE WEEK OF ACTION



The WOA happened many parts in Somalia, including Mogadishu, Hudur and Bosaso and the activities going was different.

The capacity of the programs happened in Mogadishu the capital city, but there were other activities like; soccer game in Hudur and Bosaso also hosted other soccer game of the memory of the Week of Action against small arms.

In Mogadishu the Media widely participated the WOA programs, some Radios, News Papers and Online pages published the events of the WOA and Radio Banadir and Ayaamaha News Paper were publishing daily articles about the campaign, Radio Banadir was broadcasting 7 minutes program daily that enabled the program to influence the people and memorize the WOA 2005.

The military experts those participated the program also influenced the people well when they made good metaphors in the local language that the people can understand easily.

“Hadi qori ad qado, dagal filo, hadi qalin ad qado, waxbarasho filo”

“if you take a gun, you expect fighting, if you take a pen, you expect education”

The speaker of the parliament, Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden’s speech was very good means for the campaign, because all the Media broadcasted the speech with out condition in the closing ceremony of 12th June 2005, he is the second person in the country from the president as protocol.

Messages used in the posters, if text or photos and other messages on the slogans and stickers became well done activities that fascinated the eyes of the people well.



THE OUT COMES


The indicators that show the successfulness of WOA 2005 Somalia include the affects and food prints that are still in the mouths of the people, since they heard talk shows, radio programs, interviews about WOA Somalia 2005 from the Media, or read from newspapers or saw from the Published poster, slogans and stickers.

Other indicators include that when the people speak in the debates of the radios they use the messages on the Posters and stickers like “No body has right to have gun, but has right to live in peace” or PUT THE GUN TAKE THE PEN, PUT THE GUN TAKE THE BALL and etc.

The security restoration committee also uses with the messages in the week, those are mandated to remove the roadblocks inside the capital city of Somalia, Mogadishu, when they were speaking to the people through nedia.



APPEALS



According to all above-mentioned information, it is the time for the opportunity to release appeals to the local and international community, government authorities, and UN organizations to look on the situation in Somalia.



We appeal to:-

The countries those are breaking down the UN arms embargo on Somalia, for the resolution number 733 (1992) January 23, 1992, to stop the importation of the weapons inside Somalia, and to stop also giving arms to the rival factions.
Somali government officials to bring rules to control the arms and sign and ratify the arms trade treaty or UN firearms protocol.
The fighting parts in Elwak, Hudur, Baladwein, Mudug, Galgadud, and Baidoa to stop the fighting with out condition and stop the displacement of the people, and take into account that there will be time that all their crimes will be before the justice.
United Nations to take legal steps on the countries, organization or individuals those broke down the UN resolution 733 (1992) 23, January 1992 about the arms embargo in Somalia and the signed ceasefire signed by Somalia’s Faction leaders in Eldoret Kenya, on October 27, 2002 or other wise, this will help terrorist to use Somalia as tool to facilitate their interest.
Somali community to disarm themselves and hand the weapons in their hands over the military and police forces.


REMARKS DURING THE WEEK



ABUKAR ALBADRI, WOA COORDINATOR IN SOMALIA, “it is great day to campaign for peace and take actions against small arms, I recognize that no person has right to have own gun, but every person has right to live in peace and security, so then, it is for the government to bring Rules to control arms or ratify or sign the Arms Trade Treaty –ATT”



SHARIF HASSAN SHEIKH ADAN, THE SPEAKER OF THE PARLIAMENT, “When the world is changing into small village, we live other world different from that, we are under the shades of Poverty, Insecurity, diseases and Illiteracy and all they are the seeds of the arms in ours hands”



ASHA AHMED ABDALLA, MP, “The killer in our hands is not from our factories, it is production from other countries, but was brought here to kill us, I, myself, will support every action against the arms in the parliament”



ABDULKANI SAID ARAB, THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF SOMALI FOOTBALL FEDERATION-SFF, “It is our commitment to be pioneers for the peace and we sacrifice our selves for every action against violence and insecurity and will promote peace, because Sports itself is the pioneer of the peace”.



HUSSEIN NUR ALIO, INTELLECTUAL THAT INTENDED THE CLOSING CEREMONY, “It is very useful to take campaign like this (WOA), but this is not enough to remove a mountain from the road, because to talk about the arms in Somalia is verily bigger than this week of action, but this is good starting”



COL. IBRAHIM MAHAMOUD, A MILITARY EXPERT, “When the weapons are all risk, the light or small arms are more risk in some cases, because unscrupulous people will acquire a gun, then kill the people with out knowledge of the gun and the human rights of a person”



SAHRA MOHAMED, A WOMEN THAT EXPERIENCED MANY TRAUMATIC EVENTS OF GUN, “When I hear bullet I really upset, and when I see a gun, I shock, because of the bad experiences of gun against me and my family meanwhile draw before me”



SALAH MOHAMED ADDE, GLED SECRETARY GENERAL, “It is not only to tell the risks of arms, but when we know the risks we have to take actions against it, so we have to destroy a number of weapons, even a gun that could kill at least one person”



CONCLUSION



On behalf of GLED Somalia coordinating teams of the week of action and the week of action colleagues, I would like to appreciate to the organization those give us hand during the WOA campaign, Somali Football Federation – SFF, Benadir Youth Council-BYC, Ayaamaha Printing and Publishing house – APP, and Benadir Radio for their unforgettable efforts during the campaign of the Global Week Of Action Against Small Arms Somalia 2005.

And also here, gratitude to International Action Network on Small Arms – IANSA for the efforts to promote safe world from arms and evils.



…………………………………………………………………………

Abukar Albadri



WOA 2005, Country Coordinator

Mogadishu Somalia

Tel: +2521 572300

Email: gled_som@yahoo.com

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GREEN LEAF FOR DEMOCRACY

GLED SOMALIA



GLOBAL WEEK OF ACTION AGAINST SMALL ARMS

(From 6th –12th June 2005)
Mogadishu Somalia
Final Statement


Date: 15/06/2005
Introduction


Global week of action against small arms (6-12 June 2005) had events held in 55 countries over the world; it is international campaign, the risks of the small arms globally.

WOA was sponsored globally by International Action network on Small Arms – IANSA and every country has its coordinating role to connect the local programs into global campaign, under the objectives of IANSA.



Week of action Somalia 2005
The Global week of action against small arms is the first time to organize in Somalia since the week of action was started in 2003.

Green Leaf for democracy-GLED organized wider campaign on small arms, in the events of the week of Action in Somalia from 6th – 12th June 2005.

Since 1991, there is no central government in Somalia for more than 14 years, when the military regime led by Gen. Mohamed Siad Barre was ousted from the authority by disgruntled rebels.

From that time up to date, the country is in critical situation and wider unrest of clan related conflict and confrontations, those engulfed the lives of more than five hundred thousands (500,000) people with in the past 15 years of the civil war.

From 1992, the frontline states and the countries of Yemen, Libya, Eritrea, Egypt, Ukraine, Former Soviet union and Former Yugoslavian countries send weapons and military means to Somalia and broke down the United Nations’ arms embargo on Somalia for the resolution number 733 (1992) January 23, 1992.

When the military equipments in the country inserted the hands of the civilians, wider destruction started, People were massacred, all human rights violations started to happen in Somalia.

Innocent killing, kidnapping for Ransoms, raping, looting, harassment, land confiscations, robbing, hijacking and other abuses become the daily events that every person in Somalia worrying to meet, when experiencing traumatic events met in the past time the number of displaced people increase continually, street children child soldier and children who lost parents increase as the result of the weapons flooding in Somalia is the fighting that is going in Somalia now in the regions of Hiiraan, Mudug, Galgalud, Bakol, Bay, Gedo, and so on that twenty people die per day, while the number of the casualty is more than that and the displacement and ethnicity revenge are also difficulty issues against the well being of the people in Somalia, because when a militia man is killed, the revenge is to kill useful person from the other side like; mullah, intellectual, civil society activist, for ethnicity only but not committed crime.



THE WEEK OF ACTION



The WOA happened many parts in Somalia, including Mogadishu, Hudur and Bosaso and the activities going was different.

The capacity of the programs happened in Mogadishu the capital city, but there were other activities like; soccer game in Hudur and Bosaso also hosted other soccer game of the memory of the Week of Action against small arms.

In Mogadishu the Media widely participated the WOA programs, some Radios, News Papers and Online pages published the events of the WOA and Radio Banadir and Ayaamaha News Paper were publishing daily articles about the campaign, Radio Banadir was broadcasting 7 minutes program daily that enabled the program to influence the people and memorize the WOA 2005.

The military experts those participated the program also influenced the people well when they made good metaphors in the local language that the people can understand easily.

“Hadi qori ad qado, dagal filo, hadi qalin ad qado, waxbarasho filo”

“if you take a gun, you expect fighting, if you take a pen, you expect education”

The speaker of the parliament, Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden’s speech was very good means for the campaign, because all the Media broadcasted the speech with out condition in the closing ceremony of 12th June 2005, he is the second person in the country from the president as protocol.

Messages used in the posters, if text or photos and other messages on the slogans and stickers became well done activities that fascinated the eyes of the people well.



THE OUT COMES


The indicators that show the successfulness of WOA 2005 Somalia include the affects and food prints that are still in the mouths of the people, since they heard talk shows, radio programs, interviews about WOA Somalia 2005 from the Media, or read from newspapers or saw from the Published poster, slogans and stickers.

Other indicators include that when the people speak in the debates of the radios they use the messages on the Posters and stickers like “No body has right to have gun, but has right to live in peace” or PUT THE GUN TAKE THE PEN, PUT THE GUN TAKE THE BALL and etc.

The security restoration committee also uses with the messages in the week, those are mandated to remove the roadblocks inside the capital city of Somalia, Mogadishu, when they were speaking to the people through nedia.



APPEALS



According to all above-mentioned information, it is the time for the opportunity to release appeals to the local and international community, government authorities, and UN organizations to look on the situation in Somalia.



We appeal to:-

The countries those are breaking down the UN arms embargo on Somalia, for the resolution number 733 (1992) January 23, 1992, to stop the importation of the weapons inside Somalia, and to stop also giving arms to the rival factions.
Somali government officials to bring rules to control the arms and sign and ratify the arms trade treaty or UN firearms protocol.
The fighting parts in Elwak, Hudur, Baladwein, Mudug, Galgadud, and Baidoa to stop the fighting with out condition and stop the displacement of the people, and take into account that there will be time that all their crimes will be before the justice.
United Nations to take legal steps on the countries, organization or individuals those broke down the UN resolution 733 (1992) 23, January 1992 about the arms embargo in Somalia and the signed ceasefire signed by Somalia’s Faction leaders in Eldoret Kenya, on October 27, 2002 or other wise, this will help terrorist to use Somalia as tool to facilitate their interest.
Somali community to disarm themselves and hand the weapons in their hands over the military and police forces.


REMARKS DURING THE WEEK



ABUKAR ALBADRI, WOA COORDINATOR IN SOMALIA, “it is great day to campaign for peace and take actions against small arms, I recognize that no person has right to have own gun, but every person has right to live in peace and security, so then, it is for the government to bring Rules to control arms or ratify or sign the Arms Trade Treaty –ATT”



SHARIF HASSAN SHEIKH ADAN, THE SPEAKER OF THE PARLIAMENT, “When the world is changing into small village, we live other world different from that, we are under the shades of Poverty, Insecurity, diseases and Illiteracy and all they are the seeds of the arms in ours hands”



ASHA AHMED ABDALLA, MP, “The killer in our hands is not from our factories, it is production from other countries, but was brought here to kill us, I, myself, will support every action against the arms in the parliament”



ABDULKANI SAID ARAB, THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF SOMALI FOOTBALL FEDERATION-SFF, “It is our commitment to be pioneers for the peace and we sacrifice our selves for every action against violence and insecurity and will promote peace, because Sports itself is the pioneer of the peace”.



HUSSEIN NUR ALIO, INTELLECTUAL THAT INTENDED THE CLOSING CEREMONY, “It is very useful to take campaign like this (WOA), but this is not enough to remove a mountain from the road, because to talk about the arms in Somalia is verily bigger than this week of action, but this is good starting”



COL. IBRAHIM MAHAMOUD, A MILITARY EXPERT, “When the weapons are all risk, the light or small arms are more risk in some cases, because unscrupulous people will acquire a gun, then kill the people with out knowledge of the gun and the human rights of a person”



SAHRA MOHAMED, A WOMEN THAT EXPERIENCED MANY TRAUMATIC EVENTS OF GUN, “When I hear bullet I really upset, and when I see a gun, I shock, because of the bad experiences of gun against me and my family meanwhile draw before me”



SALAH MOHAMED ADDE, GLED SECRETARY GENERAL, “It is not only to tell the risks of arms, but when we know the risks we have to take actions against it, so we have to destroy a number of weapons, even a gun that could kill at least one person”



CONCLUSION



On behalf of GLED Somalia coordinating teams of the week of action and the week of action colleagues, I would like to appreciate to the organization those give us hand during the WOA campaign, Somali Football Federation – SFF, Benadir Youth Council-BYC, Ayaamaha Printing and Publishing house – APP, and Benadir Radio for their unforgettable efforts during the campaign of the Global Week Of Action Against Small Arms Somalia 2005.

And also here, gratitude to International Action Network on Small Arms – IANSA for the efforts to promote safe world from arms and evils.



…………………………………………………………………………

Abukar Albadri



WOA 2005, Country Coordinator

Mogadishu Somalia

Tel: +2521 572300

Email: gled_som@yahoo.com

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GREEN LEAF FOR DEMOCRACY

GLED SOMALIA


GLOBAL WEEK OF ACTION AGAINST SMALL ARMS

(From 6th –12th June 2005)
Mogadishu Somalia
Final Statement


Date: 15/06/2005
Introduction


Global week of action against small arms (6-12 June 2005) had events held in 55 countries over the world; it is international campaign, the risks of the small arms globally.

WOA was sponsored globally by International Action network on Small Arms – IANSA and every country has its coordinating role to connect the local programs into global campaign, under the objectives of IANSA.



Week of action Somalia 2005
The Global week of action against small arms is the first time to organize in Somalia since the week of action was started in 2003.

Green Leaf for democracy-GLED organized wider campaign on small arms, in the events of the week of Action in Somalia from 6th – 12th June 2005.

Since 1991, there is no central government in Somalia for more than 14 years, when the military regime led by Gen. Mohamed Siad Barre was ousted from the authority by disgruntled rebels.

From that time up to date, the country is in critical situation and wider unrest of clan related conflict and confrontations, those engulfed the lives of more than five hundred thousands (500,000) people with in the past 15 years of the civil war.

From 1992, the frontline states and the countries of Yemen, Libya, Eritrea, Egypt, Ukraine, Former Soviet union and Former Yugoslavian countries send weapons and military means to Somalia and broke down the United Nations’ arms embargo on Somalia for the resolution number 733 (1992) January 23, 1992.

When the military equipments in the country inserted the hands of the civilians, wider destruction started, People were massacred, all human rights violations started to happen in Somalia.

Innocent killing, kidnapping for Ransoms, raping, looting, harassment, land confiscations, robbing, hijacking and other abuses become the daily events that every person in Somalia worrying to meet, when experiencing traumatic events met in the past time the number of displaced people increase continually, street children child soldier and children who lost parents increase as the result of the weapons flooding in Somalia is the fighting that is going in Somalia now in the regions of Hiiraan, Mudug, Galgalud, Bakol, Bay, Gedo, and so on that twenty people die per day, while the number of the casualty is more than that and the displacement and ethnicity revenge are also difficulty issues against the well being of the people in Somalia, because when a militia man is killed, the revenge is to kill useful person from the other side like; mullah, intellectual, civil society activist, for ethnicity only but not committed crime.



THE WEEK OF ACTION



The WOA happened many parts in Somalia, including Mogadishu, Hudur and Bosaso and the activities going was different.

The capacity of the programs happened in Mogadishu the capital city, but there were other activities like; soccer game in Hudur and Bosaso also hosted other soccer game of the memory of the Week of Action against small arms.

In Mogadishu the Media widely participated the WOA programs, some Radios, News Papers and Online pages published the events of the WOA and Radio Banadir and Ayaamaha News Paper were publishing daily articles about the campaign, Radio Banadir was broadcasting 7 minutes program daily that enabled the program to influence the people and memorize the WOA 2005.

The military experts those participated the program also influenced the people well when they made good metaphors in the local language that the people can understand easily.

“Hadi qori ad qado, dagal filo, hadi qalin ad qado, waxbarasho filo”

“if you take a gun, you expect fighting, if you take a pen, you expect education”

The speaker of the parliament, Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden’s speech was very good means for the campaign, because all the Media broadcasted the speech with out condition in the closing ceremony of 12th June 2005, he is the second person in the country from the president as protocol.

Messages used in the posters, if text or photos and other messages on the slogans and stickers became well done activities that fascinated the eyes of the people well.



THE OUT COMES


The indicators that show the successfulness of WOA 2005 Somalia include the affects and food prints that are still in the mouths of the people, since they heard talk shows, radio programs, interviews about WOA Somalia 2005 from the Media, or read from newspapers or saw from the Published poster, slogans and stickers.

Other indicators include that when the people speak in the debates of the radios they use the messages on the Posters and stickers like “No body has right to have gun, but has right to live in peace” or PUT THE GUN TAKE THE PEN, PUT THE GUN TAKE THE BALL and etc.

The security restoration committee also uses with the messages in the week, those are mandated to remove the roadblocks inside the capital city of Somalia, Mogadishu, when they were speaking to the people through nedia.



APPEALS



According to all above-mentioned information, it is the time for the opportunity to release appeals to the local and international community, government authorities, and UN organizations to look on the situation in Somalia.



We appeal to:-

The countries those are breaking down the UN arms embargo on Somalia, for the resolution number 733 (1992) January 23, 1992, to stop the importation of the weapons inside Somalia, and to stop also giving arms to the rival factions.
Somali government officials to bring rules to control the arms and sign and ratify the arms trade treaty or UN firearms protocol.
The fighting parts in Elwak, Hudur, Baladwein, Mudug, Galgadud, and Baidoa to stop the fighting with out condition and stop the displacement of the people, and take into account that there will be time that all their crimes will be before the justice.
United Nations to take legal steps on the countries, organization or individuals those broke down the UN resolution 733 (1992) 23, January 1992 about the arms embargo in Somalia and the signed ceasefire signed by Somalia’s Faction leaders in Eldoret Kenya, on October 27, 2002 or other wise, this will help terrorist to use Somalia as tool to facilitate their interest.
Somali community to disarm themselves and hand the weapons in their hands over the military and police forces.


REMARKS DURING THE WEEK



ABUKAR ALBADRI, WOA COORDINATOR IN SOMALIA, “it is great day to campaign for peace and take actions against small arms, I recognize that no person has right to have own gun, but every person has right to live in peace and security, so then, it is for the government to bring Rules to control arms or ratify or sign the Arms Trade Treaty –ATT”



SHARIF HASSAN SHEIKH ADAN, THE SPEAKER OF THE PARLIAMENT, “When the world is changing into small village, we live other world different from that, we are under the shades of Poverty, Insecurity, diseases and Illiteracy and all they are the seeds of the arms in ours hands”



ASHA AHMED ABDALLA, MP, “The killer in our hands is not from our factories, it is production from other countries, but was brought here to kill us, I, myself, will support every action against the arms in the parliament”



ABDULKANI SAID ARAB, THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF SOMALI FOOTBALL FEDERATION-SFF, “It is our commitment to be pioneers for the peace and we sacrifice our selves for every action against violence and insecurity and will promote peace, because Sports itself is the pioneer of the peace”.



HUSSEIN NUR ALIO, INTELLECTUAL THAT INTENDED THE CLOSING CEREMONY, “It is very useful to take campaign like this (WOA), but this is not enough to remove a mountain from the road, because to talk about the arms in Somalia is verily bigger than this week of action, but this is good starting”



COL. IBRAHIM MAHAMOUD, A MILITARY EXPERT, “When the weapons are all risk, the light or small arms are more risk in some cases, because unscrupulous people will acquire a gun, then kill the people with out knowledge of the gun and the human rights of a person”



SAHRA MOHAMED, A WOMEN THAT EXPERIENCED MANY TRAUMATIC EVENTS OF GUN, “When I hear bullet I really upset, and when I see a gun, I shock, because of the bad experiences of gun against me and my family meanwhile draw before me”



SALAH MOHAMED ADDE, GLED SECRETARY GENERAL, “It is not only to tell the risks of arms, but when we know the risks we have to take actions against it, so we have to destroy a number of weapons, even a gun that could kill at least one person”



CONCLUSION



On behalf of GLED Somalia coordinating teams of the week of action and the week of action colleagues, I would like to appreciate to the organization those give us hand during the WOA campaign, Somali Football Federation – SFF, Benadir Youth Council-BYC, Ayaamaha Printing and Publishing house – APP, and Benadir Radio for their unforgettable efforts during the campaign of the Global Week Of Action Against Small Arms Somalia 2005.

And also here, gratitude to International Action Network on Small Arms – IANSA for the efforts to promote safe world from arms and evils.



…………………………………………………………………………

Abukar Albadri



WOA 2005, Country Coordinator

Mogadishu Somalia

Tel: +2521 572300

Email: gled_som@yahoo.com

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