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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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4 mei 2011

17 – 18 – 19 juni WAR STARTS FROM EUROPE – Stop arms trade and military support.

Meeting of the European Network Against Arms Trade in Helsinki, Finland. On the program amongst other items: Arms transfers to Gulf region…

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26 april 2011

Escalating border conflict no problem for Dutch arms trade with Thailand

The Thai-Cambodian border conflict has escalated over the past months. On 22 April at least six soldiers were killed and thousands of…

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12 april 2011

Global arms industry targets growth market in Rio

According to the latest figures of peace research institute SIPRI the world’s military spending continued its upward trend in 2010 with an…

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6 april 2011

Damen expanding in Vietnam

Dutch shipyard group Damen has signed a contract with the Vietnamese government aiming at a “step up in cooperation and transfer of…

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4 april 2011

Airbus Military manipulates Oxfam figure to bolster arms sales

Something that has struck me for years is the rather explicit nature of arms industry advertising. All military magazines have them. Promoting…

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23 maart 2011

Arms trade with Libya: yes-no-yes-no

Last year the potential sale of night vision equipment to Libya was debated at the highest government level in the Netherlands. Documents…

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22 maart 2011

Security concerns in Yemen

For weeks protesters in Yemen have called for an end to president Saleh’s 33-year-long rule. In response, the president sent tanks onto…

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21 maart 2011

Europe’s oldest embargo – arms sales to superpower China

15 Mar 2011, Frank Slijper After the bloody suppression of protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989, the European Union (and the…

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11 maart 2011

Saudi tanks ready to crush dissent – with Thales Nederland equipment

Today Saudi protesters called for a “Day of Rage” . But the Saudi regime, one of the world’s most repressive has made…

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7 maart 2011

Dutch queen selling frigates to Oman

Woke up this morning with the news that the queen’s highly controversial state visit (now reduced to ‘just a dinner’) to Oman…

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