Dutch pension funds boost investments in nuke producers
“Some say nuclear disarmament is utopian… I say the illusion is that nuclear weapons provide security”, said United Nations Secretary General Ban…
Lees verder
English
Stop Wapenhandel (Stop Arms Trade) is an independent Dutch research and campaign organization opposing arms trade and arms industry. It investigates the lobby, the financing and the alternatives. Of special concern is the role of the arms industry in militarizing border and climate policy. Stop Wapenhandel works together with peace and social justice movements, engaged scholars and policy makers. Stop Wapenhandel is part of the European Network Against Arms Trade (ENAAT).
Support our work with a donation on Triodos bank account NL11TRIO0390407380 att. Stop Wapenhandel, Amsterdam BIC = TRIONL2U
More can be found using the search engine.
Alle publicaties
Power fights in the European arms industry
Friedensforum, autumn 2012 by Wendela de Vries — In the same week the Nobel Peace prize was rewarded to the European Union,…
Lees verder
The unwanted JSF swamp and the new Dutch cabinet
Soon after the 12 September parliamentary elections in the Netherlands the two largest parties, VVD [liberal/conservative] and PvdA [social democrat], started talking…
Lees verder
Wedding of the elephants: merger between BAE and EADS in the making
Europe’s two biggest arms companies, British BAE Systems and German/French/Spanish EADS announced that they are negotiating a merger, or an ‘elephants wedding’…
Lees verder
Dutch engineers take India’s warship building into “a new era”
Maritime relations between India and the Netherlands have existed since the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was allowed to set up a…
Lees verder
European arms trade, controlled but not restricted
After the United States the European Union is the biggest global arms exporter. Therefore a good European arms export policy will contribute…
Lees verder
Released Dutch arms sales contract reveals special role of Parliament
The normal procedure for arms export licences in the Netherlands is that export officials decide whether to grant one or not, following…
Lees verder
Seeing in the dark
Over the past decades Dutch night vision equipment has been sold to military, police and security forces in dozens of countries across…
Lees verder
Country Report for the ENAAT meeting in Berlin, June 2012
Over the past year we have been busy with a number of issues, with the main ones listed below.
Outreach
EADS:
For…
Lees verder
Report on the Netherlands for ENAAT, Helsinki June 2011
The Campagne tegen Wapenhandel still consists of 3 people: Mark Akkerman and Wendela de Vries in Amsterdam, Frank Slijper in Groningen. We…
Lees verder
