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Coming Soon: Fairtrade
From January 2015 our peace & justice theme will be: Fairtrade! We’ll have lots of information on how Fairtrade supports farmers and workers around the world, what Fairtrade products you can buy and where, and have a simple action to ask Tesco & Asda to make their bananas fair. Plus we will have some Fairtrade…
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Keep Taking Action Against Arms
You’ve got a few days left to pop into Peace Hub and take part in our action against arms sales to repressive regimes. But if you’ve been inspired to keep resisting the arms trade, there are many ways to stay involved in 2015. Write a letter to your MP – you can use our template…
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New Internationalist on the UK’s relaxed attitude to arms
An interesting article by Edward Robinson was published on the New Internationalist blog last week, detailling how a recent parliamentary inquiry into Britain’s arms exports found that the criterion for embargoing arms has been relaxed in recent years. The nub of the matter is that, instead of the refusing an arms export licence where there…
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Arms to Renewables
Peace Hub is calling on the UK Foreign Office to embargo arms sales to repressive regimes. But what about the jobs that arms manufacture creates in the UK? Does Peace Hub want these people to be left unemployed? These are common questions, and perfectly understandable in the current climate of austerity and poor job opportunities. …
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Practical Steps to Control Arms
At Peace Hub we are currently focussing on the UK arms trade, particulary calling for an arms embargo to countries where arms may be used for repression. It’s easy to become cynical about what governments can do to overcome vested interests like the arms trade, but with pracrtical support, we can make a difference. In…
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Make your Mark on the Arms Trade
Peace Hub’s Peace and Justice Theme for November 2014 is: UK Arms Exports Make your mark to help end arms sales to repressive regimes Over 250 UK companies produce products for the arms trade. In order to export these products, each company must apply to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office for an Arms Export Licence. …