Category - caat. campaign against arms trade

Arms giant BAE lobbied Fraud Office to stop investigation

agency reporter — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:30:41 +0000

Britain’s biggest arms company wrote to the Attorney General on a "strictly private and confidential" basis urging him to halt the Serious Fraud Office investigation into allegations that it had bribed Saudi officials to secure an arms deal.

Choosing between human rights and oil

Simon Barrow — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:11:11 +0000

It is wrong that "rules of law, human affairs and democracy are cast aside to worship a barrel of oil" said Mark Thomas in protesting about the Saudi state visit to the UK.

Control the Arms Trade Day of Prayer

Jordan Tchilingirian — Wed, 09 May 2007 09:19:51 +0100

Start: 10/06/2007 - 00:00

End: 10/06/2007 - 23:59

Every year the Campagine Against Arms Trade Christian Network holds a day of prayer to coincide with Stop the Arms Trade Week.

Arms trading is Britain's new slave trade

Symon Hill — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:11:40 +0100

Symon Hill urges Christians and others to recognize Britain’s arms sales as the moral and political equivalent of the slave trade, to work for their abolition and to pressurise BAE.

Campaigners claim victory over BAE in court battle

staff writers — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:06:02 +0000

The High Court has today ordered BAE Systems to produce a sworn affidavit divulging how they obtained a confidential and legally privileged document belonging to campaigners.

C of E's disinvestment vote increases risk for arms dealers say campaigners

staff writers — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:00:00 +0000

A landmark vote by the Church of England to ditch investments in companies fuelling the occupation of Palestine increases commercial risks for companies supplying military equipment to repressive regimes elsewhere, say UK arms trade campaigners.