Iraq - see our page dedicate to Iraq-related news and action
Arms Trade
- Call the Shots CAAT's campaign - launched Spring 2005 - to
"Take the Arms Companies out of Government"
- G8 arms
exports fuelling poverty and human rights abuses New report from the Control Arms Campaign:
Amnesty International, Oxfam, IANSA 22 June 2005
- G8 fails
the victims of irresponsible arms exports
23 June 2005
Joint Statement by the Control Arms campaign: Amnesty International,
Oxfam and IANSA
"Today's statement from the UK Chair of the G8 Foreign Ministers
meeting on arms control is a shocking disappointment and undermines the
G8's commitments to end poverty and injustice. ...."
- Global spending on arms tops $1 trillion - Independent
article, 9 June 2005 ...
"Less than a month before leaders of the world's most powerful nations
meet to discuss financial help for Africa, a new report reveals the
extraordinary sums spent by those same countries on weapons compared to
the relatively modest sums spent on aid. [continues]
- Escaping the Subsidy
Trap Why arms exports are bad for Britain, published September
2004 by Basic, Saferworld and Oxford Research Group
- Greater
Manchester Pension Fund and Arms Investment
- ‘Lock,
Stock and Barrel’, report,
February 2004, written by
Oxfam on behalf of the Control Arms
Campaign that shows that exports of components rather than entire
weapons systems creates a smokescreen that hides the true extent of the
British arms trade.
- MBDA -
Missiles, Bombs and Deadly
Ammunition? - April 2003
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