Sentences with phrase «arm trading»

This documentary reveals the shocking realities of the global arms trade, which is the only business that counts its profits in billions and its losses in human lives.

The government must put its weight behind the proposed arms trade treaty.

Since 2017 Rachel has been acting as Special Advocate in the judicial review proceedings brought by Campaign Against Arms Trade against the Secretary of State for International Trade in relation to the continuing supply of arms to Saudi Arabia for use in the conflict in the Yemen.

Their past work spans a wide range of creatively «engineered» campaigns, including a project for Amnesty International that was named Buzzfeed's No. 2 Most Effective ad campaign and helped influence the White House — and subsequently, encouraged the U.N. to pass a global Arms Trade Treaty on April 3, 2013.

As the situation continues to escalate we can be under no doubt that decisions being made in the name of arms trade profits are having serious consequences for the victims of the terrible regime.

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Now in government, and indeed, in charge of Bis which houses, separately, both the arms export promotion and licensing units, Cable is hiding behind the proposed international arms trade treaty to still any moral qualms.

His current film project The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade by author Andrew Feinstein, was awarded a development grant from the SUNDANCE INSTITUTE.

US economy is dependent on arms trading.

In continuation of the popular WiiWare game, Heavy Fire: Special Ops, the next installment sets the scene in a South American jungle where a dangerous campaign against illegal arms trade is in place.

3) Apart from arms trading, mentioned by user1, there are numerous of other businesses which will be gaining profit from such a war (big credit institutes, resource companies, technology companies - information & telecoms etc., food industry).

Britain is sending a message to the whole Arab world: arms trade profits are more important than the Middle East's aspirations for human rights and democracy

Tyler Wigg - Stevenson writes for RELEVANT about the new Arms Trade Treaty, and how important it is for Christians to back.

In 2009, at the behest of the Obama administration, the United States joined 152 other countries in endorsing a U.N. Arms Trade Treaty Resolution.

«The UK already has one of the toughest export and trade control regimes in the world and it is my intention to further tighten arms trade laws to ensure UK brokers are regulated - wherever in the world they do business,» he said.

Speaking earlier this year, business and enterprise minister Malcolm Wicks said the UK was committed to tightening arms trade laws.

Campaign Against Arms Trade v. Secretary of State for Trade (High Court): Junior Counsel for the Claimant in landmark challenge to the legality of continued licensing of arms and military equipment for export to Saudi Arabia on grounds that weapons may be used in serious violations of international humanitarian law.

The global arms trade highlights where the US, Russia, and China hold geopolitical sway — or want to.

As David Cameron prepares to meet Qatari emir, arms trade campaigners say he should focus on human rights

The relationship between the UK and Saudi Arabia is a close one that is based on extensive arms trading and oil deals.

And the global military arms trade ensures that a tribal group can be as well armed as those that might object.

More recently, Neil has acted exclusively for government departments and agencies in work of this nature and has been involved in some of the most - high profile such cases including the Alexander Litvinenko inquest / inquiry, the Saudi arms trade litigation and a number of applications to European Court of Human Rights concerned with the bulk interception of communications and communications data.

The recent case of Campaign Against Arms Trade v BAE Systems plc [2007] EWHC 330 (QB), [2007] All ER (D) 324 (Feb) shows that the test is not a strict one.

The global conventional arms trade is highly complex, involving states, companies and individuals across jurisdictions with contrasting laws and regul...

Roughly three - fifths of the weapons sold on a selection of dark web marketplaces originate from the United States, according to a new study examining the scope of the internet's black market arms trade.

A lawmaker announced that 27 - year - old Dmitri Kholodov was to have testified before Parliament this week about alleged illegal arms trading by high - level Russian military officers stationed in Germany.

NRA will fight U.N. arms trade treaty, argues it would force U.S. to enact strict legislation, Reuters

Saturday, April 6 (Washington, D.C.)-- Today, Green Cross International and Global Green USA applauded the United Nations General Assembly's endorsement of the new Arms Trade Treaty, which will for the first time establish common international standards that must be met before states authorize transfers of conventional weapons or export ammunition and weapons parts and components.

Campaign Against Arms Trade v. Secretary of State for Trade: Junior Counsel for the Claimant in landmark challenge to the legality of continued licensing of arms and military equipment for export to Saudi Arabia on grounds that weapons may be used in serious violations of international humanitarian law.

At a UN-sponsored meeting last year on the illegal arms trade, Harper government representatives offered nothing constructive to the discussions.

The international trade in endangered species is a lucrative business, with some recent estimates putting its worth at up to $ 20 billion annually, making it one of the most profitable international crimes, behind the illegal drug trade, the illicit arms trade, and human trafficking.

Finally, your claim that the US economy is «dependent» on arms trading is completely false.

What is implicit in the arms sales is the backing for the current Saudi regime and a message to those in Saudi Arabia and the wider region that their aspirations for human rights and democracy are of less importance than arms trade profits.

His current film project The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade by author Andrew Feinstein, was awarded a production grant from the Sundance Institute.

The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) is among a broad range of human rights groups planning to protest at Downing Street on Wednesday afternoon.

They took the largest slices of a growing pie: The global arms trade was 16 % larger in 2010 - 2014 than it was in 2005 - 2009, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

It became the world's third - largest exporter accounting for 5 % of the arms trade in 2010 - 2014.

China has also used its arms trade to build influence in sub-Saharan Africa, a part of the world Beijing covets for its natural resources and its growing labor and consumer marketplaces — as well as for power projection.

India provides another example of the role the arms trade plays in geopolitical influence.

Still, despite China's growing export business, the nation still only accounts for 5 % to the global arms trade.

Two Court of Appeal judges today granted Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) to appeal against the High Court judgement which allows the UK government to sell arms to Saudi Arabia.

Expensive oil thus meant losses in American manufacturing but gains for banking, the arms trade, and mass consumption.

During the protest the church group held worship, prayer and candle - lit vigils in solidarity with victims of the arms trade.

As truckloads of equipment arrived at the fair organised by the Defence and Security Equipment International in East London in September 2017, Quakers were among faith groups protesting against arms trade and profiting from war.