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Update, 27 Jan 2014: Success! Following formal complaints from CAAT, the BBC has said that its political editor, Nick Robinson, will no longer be speaking at the ADS dinner. CAAT is pleased that he has withdrawn but disappointed that the BBC has

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has called for Prince Andrew to speak out against the government repression taking place in Bahrain and has renewed calls for the UK government to cease all arms exports to the oppressive Bahraini regime.

Stop The Shipment campaign succeeds as South Korea ends tear gas sales to Bahrain The Stop The Shipment campaign was launched in October to prevent a massive shipment of over 1.6 million rounds of tear gas from South Korea to Bahrain. CAAT supporters worked with Bahraini and South Korean activists to put pressure on the

The Stop The Shipment campaign, launched two months ago with the support of Campaign Against Arms Trade to prevent a massive shipment of tear gas to Bahrain, has succeeded in its campaign to stop DAPA, South Korea's arms export licensing agency, from allowing the sale of millions of canisters of tear gas to Bahrain.

Activists in Seoul have drawn on some of the actions we had organised at DSEI - and improved them! South Korean activists even used some of the same slogans so that if any arms dealers who had been at DSEI also went to Seoul, they would know that “we are everywhere”.

It is unacceptable for Comic Relief to have invested millions of pounds in a company which profits from insecurity and human rights abuse.

Arms dealers access to the site was somewhat impeded by the protest Companies attending Wednesday’s ‘Defence, Procurement, Research, Technology and Exportation’ event were greeted by queues trailing back along the A4174 as protesters blocked the UWE North Entrance. One gate was eventually locked and attendees forced to use

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has condemned the Foreign Affairs Committee's new report on UK's relations with Saudi Arabia and Bahrain as a whitewash.