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Photo call: At 11am outside Defence Export Services Organisation[1], St George’s Court, Bury Place, London, WC1A. Four whimsical civil servant look-a-likes with missiles (stage props) will hold aloft a giant banner reading Stop Government Promotion of Arms Company Exports. Civil servants will also hold placards saying I promote arms exports in the civil service

Photo-call: A Tony Blair look-a-like will deliver a giant cheque for £888 million, representing the export subsidies given to UK arms companies, at 11 am on Monday 19 July 2004 at the pedestrian entrance to Farnborough Airfield in Hampshire (Gate B – or Dairy Gate between Pinehurst Roundabout and Queen’s Roundabout on the A325

The Government’s Annual Report on the UK’s Strategic Export Controls in 2003, published today, reveals that, yet again, the UK arms the world’s trouble spots. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s strategy paper predicts that for the next ten years: Serious flashpoints are likely to remain and may intensify between India and Pakistan,

Campaign Against Arms Trade Christian Network and Pax Christi To mark International Day for Children as Victims of War on 4th June, the Campaign Against Arms Trade Christian network and Pax Christi, the international Catholic movement for peace, are organising a pilgrimage of prayer and protest to Government departments involved in the global arms

Campaign Against Arms Trade and TAPOL (Indonesian Human Rights Campaign) A committee of MPs has accused the Government of failing to investigate claims that British-built military equipment has been used in violation of human rights or for offensive purposes in the Indonesian province of Aceh. The Quadripartite Committee on Strategic

LONDON, The Raytheon Corporation, which produced many of the bombs, cluster bomb weapons, missiles and weapons systems used against Iraq by the US and UK military [1] is sponsoring a conference for the reconstruction of the country in London, 26-28 April 2004 [2]. Andrew Wood from Campaign Against Arms Trade said, Raytheon’s

Tomorrow, Wednesday 7th April, CAAT launches its 2004 Clean Investment Campaign detailing the shares held by organisations such as local authorities and charities in the UK’s biggest arms companies. It catalogues a surprising and disappointing array of socially-minded organisations that are willing to use their money to support the arms trade: from

The High Court will today consider whether to allow a legal challenge to the Government’s arms to Indonesia policy to proceed. A human rights activist from Aceh, Indonesia is challenging by judicial review the legality of the UK’s supply of arms to Indonesia. Aguswandi claims the continued licensing of military exports to