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A shareholder activist is evicted from the AGM What do you get for leading an arms company facing billion-dollar corruption investigations? Well, BAE's outgoing Chairman, Dick Olver, has been given a knighthood for his “services to business.” CAAT had already recognised Olver's 'achievements' at the company's recent AGM,
Demonstration in London on the Global day of Action Against Military Spending. Are the British and European arms industries partially to blame for the euro crisis and the austerity craze it inspired? According to a new report by Frank Slijper of the Dutch Campaign Against the
CAAT has condemned as shameful the UK government continued eagerness to sell arms to the authoritarian regime of Saudi Arabia, despite their worsening human rights situation and almost complete lack of democratic institutions.
This blog is reposted with kind permission from Life requires Freedom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C90zaGS8iiY Today (14/05/13) the UK Trade and Investment: Defence and Security Organisation (UKTI DSO) held a symposium at the BIS conference centre in Westminster, London. In order to facilitate the networking of UK small and medium-sized arms enterprises with larger companies and to
A British arms sales team from UKTI DSO has been promoting weapons exports to Bahrain while a senior commander in Bahrain's Royal Guard toured Counter Terror Expo in London 2013 seeking the latest technologies to employ against democracy protesters.
CAAT condemns the UK government's arms export drive to the United Arab Emirates on the eve of a state visit to the UK by Sheikh Khalifa.
Campaigners in London marked the third annual Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS) today (15 April) with a protest outside the Houses of Parliament against continuing high levels of military spending while cuts are implemented in health, education, welfare and other areas.
The news from Saudi Arabia that the authorities intend to surgically paralyse a young man as a judicial punishment has led to worldwide revulsion. The logic behind the punishment is that ten years earlier Ali al-Khawahir had stabbed a friend in the back resulting in his paralysis and therefore should
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