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As protests against authoritarian regimes across the Middle East are met with violent repression, Campaign Against Arms Trade highlights the UK's role in arming the regimes.
London Campaign Against Arms Trade (London CAAT) and East London Against Arms Fairs (ELAAF) members will be descending on this weekend’s Baby Show to highlight the show’s links with the arms trade. The owners of this show are Clarion Events who also own the Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair,
Arms export licences from European Union (EU) countries to four troubled north African countries, Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia, doubled in the year 2008-2009 from €985 million to €2 billion. Exports to Egypt also increased, as they did to the Middle East as a whole. These weapons will inevitably be used by authoritarian governments
Arms export licences from European Union (EU) countries totalled a record €40.3 billion in 2009, up 20 percent on 2008. Just over half (53 percent) of arms sales went to non-western countries, with Middle Eastern countries taking the largest share. France remained the major exporter (€12.7 billion) followed by Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom
London Campaign Against Arms Trade (London CAAT) members will be descending on this weekend’s Destinations: The Holiday & Travel Show to highlight the show’s links with the arms trade. The owners of this show are Clarion Events who also own the Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair, a biennial event
2011 sees Campaign Against Arms Trade’s (CAAT) new campaign This is not OK. The simple slogan highlights the unethical basis of the Government’s enthusiastic support for the arms industry and arms exports. This is not OK is launched on 17 January, the 50th anniversary of President Eisenhower’s farewell address, where he warned
Campaign Against Arms Trade and The Corner House are challenging the blanket immunity from prosecution given by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) to BAE Systems as part of its February 2010 plea bargain settlement with the company. The immunity clause states that: There shall be no further investigations or prosecutions
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) and The Corner House today welcomed the damning remarks of Mr Justice Bean accompanying the sentencing in the crown court of BAE Systems plc. The judge expressed surprise that although the accounting mistake to which the company pleaded guilty was the result of a deliberate decision by
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