Help refugees, stop arms trade!
In 2015 global military spending has reached $1700 billion, which is good news for the arms industry. At the same time, 60…
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Stop Wapenhandel (Stop Arms Trade) is a group of independent researchers and activists on arms trade, the arms industry and lobbying. Stop Wapenhandel advocates sustainable security, not based on military power and deterrence but on solving the causes of insecurity.
Stop Wapenhandel is part of the European Network Against Arms Trade (ENAAT) and the Arms, Militarism and Climate Justice working group.
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Voice crying in the wilderness
‘Better late than never,’ wrote an anti arms trade activist from London when the 2014 EU Consolidated report on arms exports finally…
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European Network Against Arms Trade (ENAAT) meeting in London
July 7 to July 9. Arms fair action from July 11. – UK Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) is hosting the next annual European…
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European military industry: EU, give us 3.5 billion euros for military research
On 25 February a so-called ‘Group of Personalities’ (GoP) released the report ‘European Defence Research: The case for an EU-funded defence R&T…
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Higher defence budget for new submarines
“We were waiting for the call to shoot,” an elderly man told me prior to a meeting on the acquisition of new…
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More, always more..
NATO budgets for arms acquisitions are growing. In the NATO report on 2015 the military treaty organisation states that in 2014, 17.4%…
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Dutch missile technology to Saudi Arabia?
Germany “supports the supply of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia,” concluded Left Party Bundestag member Jan van Aken in a reaction to…
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Figures for action
“Developing nations from 2011 to 2014 received 62% of the value of all international arms deliveries.” It is a text from the…
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Letterbox arms companies in the Netherlands
Tax evasion and weapon production
A few kilometres from the office of Stop Wapenhandel in Amsterdam, many arms companies have financial holdings,…
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Research report: Tax evasion and weapon production
Letterbox arms companies in the Netherlands
December 2015 update november 2018 – Many arms companies use the Netherlands for tax evasion constructions,…
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