Cameron in Middle East arms tour hypocrisy
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has criticised David Cameron for promoting arms sales to authoritarian regimes in the Middle East
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Shut the door on clandestine arms company lobbying
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) is calling for determined action to protect public decision-making from the inappropriate, behind-the-scenes influence of arms companies.
FAC report questions arms trade links with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Libya
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) welcomes the report of the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC), released today, on its overview of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) human rights work in 2011. CAAT has consistently focused attention on UK arms sales to the repressive regimes in the Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Libya. While
Parliamentary inquiries should look for the truth, not pander to Saudi bullying
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) is delighted that the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) is examining the relationship between the UK and Saudi Arabia, not least because of the huge amount of UK military equipment exports that continue to go there.
Protests end National Gallery’s arms trade links
London's National Gallery has announced the end of its long-standing sponsorship arrangement with weapons manufacturer Finmeccanica, following a campaign by Campaign Against Arms Trade to "Disarm the Gallery."
Vince Cable: Constituents speak out
Protesters outside Vince Cable's constituency office Paul Tippell is a member of Twickenham, Richmond and Kingston Network against the Arms Trade (TRAKNAT, www.traknat.org.uk), which is co-ordinating a public meeting on 29 November to quiz Vince Cable and Zac Goldsmith on the arms trade. We spoke to him about how
CAAT’s “Alternative Nobel Prize”
The Right Livelihood Award is also known as "The Alternative Nobel Prize" Last week, on Thursday 27 September, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) was awarded one of the four Right Livelihood Awards for 2012 for our "innovative and effective campaigning against the
“These people are selling more guns from here?”
The Shut Down H&K campaign pickets the Nottingham site every month and in 2010 shut it down for a day with a rooftop occupation In Nottingham, Shut Down H&K picket their local arms company Heckler & Koch every month. Here they report on leafleting as
