Arms industry fuels and profits from refugee tragedy
In the last weeks, news has been filled with stories about the ‘refugee crisis’, tens of thousands of people from the Middle…
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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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Arming against Putin
Peace activists’ eyes are focusing on the Stop the Arms Fair week of action in London – the biggest anti arms trade…
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European Elections: What are politicians really doing on crucial issues?
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH EUROPE, VREDESACTIE, CAMPAGNE TEGEN WAPENHANDEL
Tuesday, 6 May, 2014
European Elections: What are politicians really doing on crucial…
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Despite military embargo, India sells Dutch radar technology to Myanmar
An arms embargo is the strongest measure of arms control. And thus must be taken very seriously. In 2013, Stop Wapenhandel published…
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War industry lobby and EU Defence Summit June 25-26
Last month, the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) published an evaluation of the revised EU lobby transparency register. “While…
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Universities a pool of knowledge and personnel for defence production
The Dutch military turns to children as young as 15 years of age to attract new personnel to its ranks. The military…
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European major weapons in the Yemen war
A coalition of 10 countries, including the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), is fighting in Yemen against Houthi rebels who forced Yemen’s government…
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Libya needs serious arms control
Last Friday, the UN Security Council decided to leave the arms embargo against Libya unchanged, and urged the government in Tripoli to…
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Fokker: “a company with a long track record of deceit and illegal behavior”
In his Opinion of February 5, 2015 U.S federal judge Richard Leon refused to approve a settlement for sanction violations by the…
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Shipyard Damen wants to build for Azerbaijan
Dutch Damen Shipyards considers building military naval vessels for Azerbaijan, a country that is involved in an arms race with neighboring Armenia.…
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