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📑 NEW REPORT: UK arms exports in 2024
Read for:
🔴 Trends in UK arms exports
🔴 Arms sales to Israel, UAE & others
🔴 Key concerns about the arms trade
🔴 Issues of transparency
🔴 Our recommendations
Available now: caat.org.uk/publications/u…
Campaign Against Arms Trade
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Campaign Against Arms Trade
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Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) is a UK-based organisation working to end the international arms trade. Nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize.
- BREAKING: The Court of Appeal has ruled that UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia for use in #Yemen are UNLAWFUL. All arms sales licences suspended! #StopArmingSaudi
- STARVING CHILDREN IS A RED LINE 📍NOW outside of the Houses of Parliament in Westminster
- This is huge. Unite, one of the UK's largest trade unions, has voted for a full arms embargo on Israel. Last week, the union voted to support members who refuse to handle weapons for Israel and support divestment campaigns. Solidarity with the workers.
- NOW: The High Court is hearing a case to challenge the government's decision to ban Palestine Action under anti-terror laws. 🧵Thread of updates from inside court:
- SUSPENSION OF ARMS SALES TO ISRAEL MEANINGLESS IF IT DOES NOT INCLUDE F-35 COMPONENTS There is currently a lot of talk that the UK may be about to announce at least a partial suspension of arms exports to Israel. This is welcome, but as always, the devil is in the detail. A 🧵
- We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been nominated for the #NobelPeacePrize alongside the brilliant @MwatanaEn! 🥳🥲
- HAPPENING NOW: noisy protests in Park Lane are disrupting the arms dealers dinner. Arms dealers here tonight are complicit in genocide. Change of “Free free Palestine”and “shame on you” #StopArmingIsrael #FreePalestine
- HAPPENING NOW: People are blockading the Bristol Arms fair. Exhibitors include Elbit Systems and BAE Systems. Wherever arms dealers are meeting, protesters will greet them. #StopArmingIsrael #FreePalestine
- At this point @zarahsultana is practically doing the work of two Committees, and providing parliamentary oversight and scrutiny that should not be down to one person, or a few people to ensure. Every elected MP should be outraged by these revelations.This should be getting *way* more news coverage. Just a month into the war, the Foreign Office had "serious concerns" about Israel's compliance with international law, but government ministers hid this fact from the public. I spoke about these revelations in Parliament today:
00:00 - Enough is enough! There are no excuses left. Following the ICJ ruling, the government must immediately halt all arms exports to Israel. Read full press release here - caat.org.uk/news/media-rel… #StopArmingIsrael #ICJGazaGenocide #FreePalestine
- We're very glad that the Court of Appeal has said that the UK must #StopArmingSaudi. But we shouldn’t have needed to take the government to court to force it to stick to its own rules on arms sales.
