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31 Jan 2012

Amnesty criticises UK export of tear gas to Bahrain

Amnesty International has criticised the UK’s decision to export tear gas to Bahrain where multiple deaths have been caused as a result of its use by security forces.
12 Jan 2012

EU accused of hiding own report on arms trade

NGOs that monitor the arms trade say the European Union's latest report on arms exports was deliberately released without publicity at a quiet time of the year.
10 Jan 2012

Arms fair protester faces trial

An arms trade protester arrested at the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair in September will go on trial next week
3 Jan 2012

UK ministers aim to arm more despotic regimes in 2012

2012 will see the UK government sending arms sales delegations to countries who use violent repression against protestors
28 Nov 2011

The UK's Department for Dodgy Deals

The UK government is demanding payment from Egypt for money loaned to Mubarak to help him to buy weapons. The money is claimed by the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD), a secretive unit of Vince Cable's Department for Business. It has a habit of backing arms deals and fossil fuels and creating unjust debt.
31 Oct 2011

Background to UK dodgy arms deals with Egypt

The Jubilee Debt Campaign (www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk/), to which Ekklesia is pleased to be affiliated, has done a fine job exposing the UK government's dodgy dealings with the former dictatorial regime in Egypt. The latest expose can be read here: http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/15629
31 Oct 2011

UK government demanding payment for arms sales to dictator Mubarak

The Department for Business is still demanding money from the Egyptian government to pay for loans made to ex-dictator Mubarak to allow him to buy arms.
28 Oct 2011

Churches urged to back action on the global arms trade

Churches have an important role to play in the lead-up to negotiations of a global treaty in 2012 to regulate the conventional arms trade.
18 Oct 2011

Critics of arms trade evicted from London Graduate Fair

A group of people opposed to the arms trade have been removed by police from the London Graduate Fair after peacefully protesting against BAE and Raytheon.
14 Oct 2011

These dodgy practices go way beyond Fox and Werrity

It’s happened at last. Liam Fox, one of the most gung-ho militarists ever to occupy the post of Defence Secretary, has returned to the backbenches. All the excuses and half-truths his supporters could come up with have not saved him. But his departure will be largely pointless if we don’t learn a great deal from the Werrity scandal.

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