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Yesterday I got trodden on by an arms dealer. How did that happen? A group of us found out that the Annual Defence Dinner was taking place at the Imperial War Museum. At £210-£300 a ticket and billed as “one of the most prominent events in the defence and security calendar”, this wasn’t an opportunity
The BAE AGM: far removed from reality Symon Hill reports from the Annual General Meeting of the world's second-largest arms company. Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of the BAE Systems Annual General Meeting. Shareholders were today welcomed into the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, to be greeted by
As Foreign Secretary William Hague launched the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's annual Human Rights and Democracy report for 2011, the Department of Business Innovation and Skills released, late and without fanfare, statistics for licences issued for military and other strategic exports for the final quarter of 2011
On 26 April, Sam Walton took the stage to disrupt Vince Cable's speech at a government arms sales conference. "he UKTI DSO Symposium is the biggest event of the year for Britain’s exporters of “defence & security” gear – so you’d think they’d have better security"
On Tuesday 17 April, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) activists in Edinburgh will hold a vigil to protest against huge UK government expenditure on the military and subsidy of arms manufacturing. Campaigners will call on Holyrood to work towards a more sustainable future for Scottish engineering, away from the business of manufacturing and selling weapons,
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has condemned David Cameron's latest arms sales trip to Asia, especially his attempts to sell more weapons to Indonesia. Mr Cameron's schedule includes Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Burma. His entourage contains executives from six arms companies, including BAE Systems and AgustaWestland
The arms export licence app brought over 10,000 new visitors to the CAAT website. Ian Mackinnon quit his job to create a ground-breaking web app that allows anyone to browse the licences granted by the UK government for exporting arms. Here he talks about why this work was so
On Saturday 31 March, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) with Stop the Arms Fair coalition launches a campaign to urge the National Gallery to end its links with the arms trade. The National Gallery, one of the UK's most iconic public institutions, receives funding from arms giant Finmeccanica and in return allows its famous galleries
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