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Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has been awarded one of the four Right Livelihood Awards for 2012 for their innovative and effective campaigning against the arms trade. CAAT is an independent campaigning organisation based in Finsbury Park, north London.

On the International Day of Peace, Friday 21 September, giant bubbles will fill Trafalgar Square with the message Bubbles Not Bombs. The family friendly event will call on the National Gallery to end its support for the arms trade.

A new arms trade map of the UK developed by CAAT will enable the public to find out the locations and activities of often secretive arms companies.

One year before the DSEI arms fair is scheduled to return to London's docklands in September 2013, campaigners from Stop the Arms Fair coalition have promised that they will do everything they can to stop it happening. Their call to action signals to the ExCeL Centre, the venue that hosts the arms fair, and the

One year before one of the world's largest arms fairs is due to return to the UK, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has launched an arms trade map of the UK to enable people to learn more about the activities of the often secretive arms industry and to take action against the arms companies on

Over the three years 2008-2011 leading British universities received at least £83 million of funding from UK arms companies and government military agencies, for research, courses and other activities.

Campaign Against Arms Trade says that even had an Arms Trade Treaty had been agreed at the UN, it would not end or limit international arms sales, including those to countries in conflict and human rights abusers, but would further legitimise arms exports and increase the reach of the largest arms companies.

New government figures for arms export licences reveal that the UK government is still happy to sell weaponry to authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and north Africa (MENA), where there is a high probability that they will be used for internal repression.