CAAT E-News, November 2020

Beyond the Rhetoric of Reform: Saudi Arabia and the UK
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Online webinar 6pm, Thursday 19 November – register now
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Join CAAT and a fantastic line-up of speakers next week to
coincide with Saudi Arabia hosting the G20 international summit.

As the Saudi authorities try to use the event to brand themselves
as progressive reformers, we’ll hear about the activists really
driving change, many of whom remain locked up in Saudi jails. And
we’ll learn more about the devastating impact of the Saudi-led
attacks on Yemen, and the UK’s complicity in these abuses.

* With Osamah Al-Fakih, from Yemeni-based Mwatana for Human
rights,
* Safa Al-Ahmad, Journalist, filmmaker, and Acting Director of
ALQST, which works to promote human rights in Saudi Arabia, and
* David Wearing, academic, writer, and a specialist in UK
relations with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arab monarchies.

Register now for this free event
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End SARS and UK support for Nigerian security forces
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Following the End SARS protests to disband the controversial
Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Nigeria
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revealed the training and support
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provided by the UK to Nigerian security forces. The government
initially denied the links but was later forced to admit
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that some of this training had been provided to SARS.

Paying For The Pandemic
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The COVID-19 pandemic has radically shifted our understanding of
how fast we can make changes to public spending when the
political will is there. New research from the Transnational
Institute, TNI, makes ten proposals on how to pay for the costs
of the pandemic and achieve a just transition to a better world.

TNI's research has found that reclaiming 10% of global military
spending could raise $191.7 billion a year globally. Choosing
welfare over warfare is a critical part of finding the funds to
tackle climate breakdown and global injustice. Read more
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500 new arms export licences to Saudi Arabia
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This week we learned that the Government has issued more than 500
new export licences for arms sales
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to Saudi Arabia since July. The government had been forced to
stop issuing new licences following CAAT’s legal action to stop
the sales last year.

It is disgraceful that the government has pushed through so many
new arms sales, which will only prolong the Saudi-led bombing of
Yemen and exacerbate the humanitarian crisis. CAAT's new legal
action
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challenges this: we must stop the sales once and for all.

Thank you for your support,

Campaign Against Arms Trade ( [link removed] )

Sarah

Campaign Against Arms Trade
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