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The UK has suspended 30 of the 350 currently extant licences for exports to Israel but continues to allow the most problematic of UK arms exports, components for F-35 fighter aircraft, which have been at the heart of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.
3 September 2024
Our partners explain how an arms control initiative between Africa, China and the European Union has improved cooperation between civil society, academia and governments to tackle illicit arms flows into African countries.
21 November 2023
Civil society organisations have long argued against the EPF, as recent history suggests that providing weapons and ammunition to security forces in fragile states is more likely to exacerbate than solve local and regional conflicts.
11 January 2021
With COVID-19 creating havoc for all manner of international processes, the Sixth Conference of States Parties of the Arms Trade Treaty limited itself to a ‘conference by written procedure’, intended to do little more than keep things ticking over. In this it largely succeeded, but a pre-COVID-19 trend to less transparency seemed to accelerate over the year, writes Roy Isbister.
28 August 2020
The ‘A-C-E Project on arms in Africa’ promotes multilateral dialogue and cooperation to prevent the illicit trade and diversion of arms and ammunition in Africa. This new A-C-E Project website is the dedicated channel for the project and its activities.
27 July 2020
The UK has doubled-down on its long-held position as one of the main suppliers of fighter aircraft and bombs for Saudi Arabia’s catastrophic war in Yemen, declaring at the end of a review into its arms export processes that Saudi violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) are not systematic enough to merit restraint.
8 July 2020
In February, Saferworld held an interactive training workshop in Penang for freight-forwarding agents, who are on the front line when it comes to facilitating the international movement of strategic trade goods.
1 April 2020
Experts from around the world recently came together in Vienna to exchange opinions on how to strengthen public-private collaboration on regulating the trade of weapons and other dangerous goods. Janine Green-Holmen and George Tan Swee Cheng attended the event and shared their thoughts with us.
9 October 2019
Despite a June court decision barring the UK Government from approving arms sales to Saudi Arabia, the UK’s International Trade Secretary has admitted to granting two licences in violation of the ruling. Roy Isbister argues that this is yet another example of how the current UK system is fundamentally flawed.
20 September 2019