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Today Campaign Against Arms Trade has learnt that the Church of England has disinvested in GKN, a major arms export company with a record of sales to repressive regimes and developmentally needy countries. The Church has taken ‘ substantial review of the C of E’s investment in defence companies’. The Church’s Ethical Investment Advisory

Rachel Harford of Campaign Against Arms Trade said: Whilst we welcome the Government’s decision to bring in a system of licensing of arms brokers, as yet we have no details as to when this is to be introduced. Furthermore the government must complement such a system with regular end-use monitoring of arms sales. It

RAF Officer Advising Mercenaries Accused of Killing Civilians The UK Government is under fierce criticism following revelations that British armed forces have been working with mercenaries in Sierra Leone. A British squadron leader has been working with British mercenary Neil Ellis, who has previously worked for mercenary companies Sandline International and Executive Outcomes. Ellis

Government Criticised for Breach of Criteria on Arms Exports Campaign Against Arms Trade today welcomed the recommendations set out by the Quadrapartite Committee’s second report on Strategic Export Controls. For the first time the committee has made recommendations for prior parliamentary scrutiny of licence signing for arms exports which would allow for

CAAT and TAPOL Call for Immediate Re-imposition of Ban on Arms Sales Campaign Against Arms Trade and TAPOL, the Indonesia Human Rights Campaign are demanding an immediate re-imposition of the arms embargo on Indonesia. Reports in today’s Independent state that British-made armoured vehicles have been used by Indonesian armed forces in support

Cross Party Letter to Government Non-Governmental Organisations including Campaign Against Arms Trade, The Corner House, Friends of the Earth, Kurdish Human Rights Project, World Development Movement, and the World-wide Fund For Nature have joined together to produce a memorandum on the reform of the Export Credits Guarantee Department. The memorandum outlines the

15th July 2000: Africa Day of Action on Debt In this Jubilee Year, with the G8 leaders meeting in Okinawa for a summit from 21-23 July 2000, Campaign Against Arms Trade Christian Network, a member of the Jubilee 2000 coalition, is highlighting the fact that twenty per cent of Africa’s debt is

Rachel Harford of Campaign Against Arms Trade said: Once again when it comes to arms sales, this government is intent on continuing to approve licences to military regimes and regions of high tension. It is insulting for the government to persist in keeping us all second-guessing as to whether or not arms