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Christians to unite in Day of Prayer on eve of London arms fair
Christian communities throughout the country take part ina Day of Prayer on Sunday 11 September two days before the opening of one of the world's largest arms fairs, Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI), in London's Docklands. The Day of Prayer will take place on the tenth anniversary of the attacks on the Twin Towers
Why does the West continue to arm authoritarian regimes?
Karim Malak from Egypt reports on an incident on Armed Forces day, 23 July 2011. On 23 July 2011 the Egyptian military cautiously began marking Armed Forces day. The night before, the military had issued a communique on their facebook page incriminating 6 April, a large civil society organisation and opposition movement.
BAE wilts under Select Committee onslaught
Ann Feltham, CAAT's Parliamentary Co-ordinator, attended the International Development Committee hearing on 19 July which saw BAE under attack by MPs for its shameful inaction in paying £29.5 million to the Government of Tanzania. Media eyes may have been focused on the Murdochs' Select Committee appearance, but the real pleasure for CAAT supporters was the
Riding the El Cid route to raise funds for CAAT
Kate Byrne hugging El Cid What a fantastic route, what amazing things we saw and what gruelling hills we climbed! Nine friends set off on 26 May to pedal part of the Camino Del Cid, a route which we planned to take us from Bilbao on the Northern coast of
UK government challenged over failure to revoke arms exports to Saudi Arabia
CAAT's lawyers have written to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) declaring their intention to request a judicial review of his department's failure to revoke any licences for the export of military equipment to Saudi Arabia.
A poetic take on Libya
Athos Athanasiou was moved to write a poem about Libya and British arms firms’ dealings with Gaddafi. You can read more of his poetry on his blog. On Libya Oh just look! The papers say, David Cameron leads the way, in heading to the Middle East to try and quell
Manchester University staff member’s ironic letter to colleagues about their indifference to the consequences of their research for BAE
Dear Colleagues, I attended the presentation given by the arms company Thales a few months ago as a personal interdisciplinary exercise. The problem was as follows. Given a group of thoroughly decent academics listening to a presentation of some highly technical problems posed by an organisation devoted to the production, inter alia, of tools of
