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"Am I not a man and a brother" – anti-slavery image Henry Boddington explores the parallels between the slave trade and the arms trade and explains why ending the arms trade should be a priority for today's world.  In 1769  the slave, James Somersett was brought to England. He was

The UK government continued to licence significant amounts of arms for export to Libya till the end of 2010. The figures are contained in the 2010 fourth quarter listings in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Strategic Export Control Reports

CAAT welcomes the report of the Parliamentary Committee of Arms Export Controls and calls for a review to include government arms export promotion activity.

CAAT strongly opposes any moves by the UK, other countries or NATO to break the current arms embargo on Libya by sending arms to forces opposing the regime of Colonel Gaddafi.

Rhiannon Rees reports on Kingston Peace Council's vigil outside Vince Cable's constituency office Vince Cable talks to the protesters On Friday 18 March I joined constituents of Vince Cable who were lobbying him at his constituency office in Twickenham to end government support for arms exports to repressive

On March 17th, BBC TV's prime-time magazine programme The One Show aired a report about the UK's hidden arms companies. For CAAT this report was a valuable opportunity to present our message to a mainstream audience of millions, and I was excited to be involved in making it. The One Show's report was prompted by

A protester in a Guantanamo Bay-style outfit Ian Pocock reports on London CAAT's protest about Lockheed Martin's role in the UK census As part of Count Me Out's weekend of action against Lockheed Martin's deplorable involvement in the census, Saturday saw London CAAT members carry out a protest at Victoria

Saudi Arabia has sent scores of UK-made armoured personnel carriers into Bahrain to aid the government's bloody suppression of pro-democracy protesters.