Press releases
Amsterdam, 15 April 2013 - At a time of harsh cuts in social services, it is morally unjustifiable to spend money on weapons that should be invested in creating jobs and tackling poverty.
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30-01-2013 -- Groups organised in the European Network Against Arms Trade (ENAAT) strongly oppose any moves to amend the current EU arms embargo on Syria as proposed by the United Kingdom. A proposal to do so, to enable military equipment to be sent to anti-Assad groups, will most likely be presented to the Council of the European Union by the UK on Thursday 31 January.
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10 January 2013--Large increase in EU arms exports revealed – but annual report is untransparent, incomplete and unpublicised
The “Fourteenth Annual Report on Exports Control of Military Technology and Equipment” reveals that in 2011 European Union (EU) countries licensed arms exports valued at 37.5 billion euro – an increase of almost one fifth on 2010. The largest and fastest growing markets for weapons were in the Middle East and Asia, including countries embroiled in the uprisings of 2011, while Saudi Arabia replaced the USA as the largest customer.
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Militarisering van security - Een inventarisatie van Nederlandse bedrijven
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11 Januari 2012 --- The publication of the “Thirteenth Annual Report on Exports Control of Military Technology and Equipment”, covering 2010, raises many questions about the reliabilityof the data provided and on EU commitment to make arms export control effective, say NGOs working on the arms trade.
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11 July 2011- Seven years after the ruling by the International Court of Justice that the wall (the so-called "separation barrier ") between Israel and the Palestinian Territories was an illegal construction, European anti-arms trade groups have endorsed international calls for an arms embargo on Israel.
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No arms for dictators – no nuclear arms
Amsterdam, May 24 – On May 26 the Dutch Campagne tegen Wapenhandel will organise a picket line at the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS) shareholders meeting in Amsterdam. EADS is one of the biggest European arms producers. Due to inadequate arms export regulation the company can export its weapons all over the world, also to dictatorships. Moreover the company is a nuclear weapons producer.
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Arms producer EADS has supplied arms to all parties in the Lybian war – to Khadaffi, to the British and the French and –through Qatar –also to the Lybian rebels. EADS is Europe’s second biggest arms producer and is also producing nuclear rockets.
On Thursday May 26 EADS shareholders will meet in Amsterdam. The Campagne tegen Wapenhandel will organize a picket line.
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PRESS RELEASE CAMPAGNE TEGEN WAPENHANDEL
Amsterdam, 18 Feb 2011 - Video footage from Bahrain, showing police and security forces brutality against demonstrations for democracy, clearly show armoured vehicles of the type sold to the Gulf state by the Netherlands in the mid-90's.
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ENAAT PRESS RELEASE, 1 February 2011
Arms export licences from European Union (EU) countries totalled a record €40.3 billion in 2009, up 20 percent on 2008.
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De Campagne tegen Wapenhandel won in 2011 de ASN Wereldprijs