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Local residents outside Elbit in Bristol with a Palestinian flag and a banner reading stop genoicde

Blogs

Bristol residents target Elbit over Israeli arms exports

15th December 2023

We will keep taking actions like this until there are no arms dealers left in Bristol, and we invite you to do the same.

Protesters with banners outside Elbit in Bristol.

Blogs

Bristol campaigners target Elbit over its complicity in the genocide of Palestinian people

25th October 2023

"We must remind ourselves that while the bombs that are dropped may be thousands of miles away, the offices where they are ordered are just the other side of the motorway."

Protesters from the Ziegler case locked on in the middle of the road with a pink box reading "Stop the Arms Fair"

Blogs

5 reasons why we should all resist DSEI

24th August 2023

Yes, it’s that time of year again – well that time every two years – when we come together to resist Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI), one of the world’s largest arms fairs at the ExCeL centre in London. We’re looking forward to seeing old faces and meeting new ones as

Blogs

UK Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia: Making (non)sense of the judgment

13th July 2023

In a judgment issued on 6 June, the UK’s High Court dismissed the case brought by CAAT challenging the Government’s decision to renew arms sales to Saudi Arabia. The Court found that CAAT had not proved that the then Secretary of State for International Trade was acting irrationally in their decision to licence

A group of protesters hold signs outside City Hall saying TfL Stop Promoting War Machines and BAE Systems off the rails

Blogs

London CAAT Petition Hand-in: No to BAE Systems Tube Ads!

30th June 2023

Members of London CAAT handed in a 450+ signature petition at City Hall on 21st June. The petition calls for the Mayor of London and Transport for London to end BAE Systems advertising deal with London Underground,

Activists outside High Court with Stop Arming Saudi Arabia banner

Blogs

Arms Sales Back on Trial in 2023

28th July 2022

CAAT's legal challenge over the supply of UK weapons for the war in Yemen will proceed in the High Court in January 2023.

Arms fair event with Helen Close, Rachel Small and Chris Rossdale

Blogs

Arms Fairs Uncovered: Launch Event and Q&A for New Data Repository

15th June 2022

Join Omega Research Foundation and CAAT at the launch of a new data repository with information on hundreds of arms fairs around the world and tens of thousands of attendees. Omega's Helen Close chairs the panel with Chris Rossdale from Bristol University & Rachel Small from World Beyond War. CAAT's Ian McKinnon and Omega's Scott

Image of protesters outside Windsor horse how with banners saying stop arming

Blogs

Bahrain Sportswashing at Windsor Horse Show

17th May 2022

Bahrain Sportswashing: Campaigners from Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) and CAAT ask Windsor Horse Show and the Queen, "why are you hosting dictators"?