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Dear Friends, As we come to the end of 2025, all of us at CAAT would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all of you – members of local groups, campaigners, funders, and partners – for your support, tenacity, confidence and encouragement. We just wouldn’t exist without you. We would not be
As top arms companies BAE Systems and Rheinmetall announce record sales, Yemeni civilians have faced a setback in their pursuit of international justice yet again. After more than 6 years of preliminary examinations, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has confirmed that it will not open an investigation into the
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) granted two new licenses for the export of trainer aircraft for F-35 sorties and “targeting equipment” to Israel, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) can reveal. This is despite concerns about potential ‘auto-diversion’ of military equipment by Israel, and its ongoing use of the F-35 in its genocidal onslaughts.
The value of UK “single individual” arms export licences issued in 2024 (the latest full-year figures) increased by 86% to reach a record £9.2 billion, with Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, Qatar, and the United States being the top recipients. Campaigners decry the close relationship between the UK and American arms industries as evidenced in this new
UK government arms export licensing figures for the second quarter of 2025 show a surge in the value of licences for the UAE, despite the government knowing that the UAE has diverted UK military equipment to the genocidal RSF in Sudan.
The Rapid Support Forces militia is committing genocide in Darfur in western Sudan, in the course of its civil war with Sudan's military rulers. The RSF is armed by the United Arab Emirates, a western ally in the Gulf which receives huge arms supplies from France, the US, the UK and others. UK military equipment
CAAT welcomes the ceasefire in Gaza. An end, at least for now, to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, and the release of Israeli and Palestinian hostages, is an enormous relief. However, no-one should imagine that this ceasefire represents an end to Israel's genocidal war in Gaza, still less to the decades-long occupation, apartheid, and dispossession of
The act of recognition of Palestine by the UK must be the start of a serious effort to end the genocide and pursue real, practical steps towards securing Palestinian freedom.
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