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Local and national organisations are uniting to show their opposition to Armed Forces Day, due to be held in Falmouth on 24th June. Groups involved include Campaign Against Arms Trade, the Peace Pledge Union, ForcesWatch, Demilitarise Education, Cornwall Resists and local and national Quaker organisations. All groups say that we should be giving
London CAAT pays a cheeky visit to Westminster Tube Station
CAAT's second Judicial Review case against the government over arms sales to Saudi Arabia begins on Tuesday 31st January.
The UK has an appalling recent record of complicity in war crimes and violations of international humanitarian law against the people of Yemen. The Government’s decision to provide “defensive military support” as part of Saudi Arabia’s most recent assault creates an imminent danger of direct UK involvement in further atrocities, and must be immediately reversed.
A coalition of peace and anti-militarism organisations will protest the five-day Farnborough International Airshow this Monday 20 July. The arms fair in Hampshire will feature over 1,000 company exhibitors, including many complicit in the current Israeli genocide in Palestine, with their products having also been used in attacks in Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. Over 50 countries and territories are
CAAT condemns the signing yesterday of a Memorandum of Understanding between the UK and Turkey for the potential sale of 40 Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft by the UK to Turkey.
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Negotiations appear to be nearing a conclusion for the sale of 40 Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft to Turkey by the UK. Turkey under President Erdogan is a highly authoritarian regime, engaged in deepening repression of political opposition, and a brutal war against both its own Kurdish population and Kurdish regions in neighbouring Iraq and Syria.
Join Omega Research Foundation and CAAT at the launch of a new data repository with information on hundreds of arms fairs around the world and tens of thousands of attendees. Omega's Helen Close chairs the panel with Chris Rossdale from Bristol University & Rachel Small from World Beyond War. CAAT's Ian McKinnon and Omega's Scott
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