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After a spectacular campaign, Edinburgh university have divested from Ultra Electronics – a company which makes components for drones. The Guardian reports – ‘The company, headquartered at Greenford in Middlesex, makes navigation controls for the US fleet of Predator and Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles. Armed with Hellfire missiles, they are sent on covert “targeted killing” […]

On Wednesday 6 March, six months before the DSEI arms fair is due to return to London, students and other activists across the UK took action against arms companies at their universities and in their communities, sending a strong message that their business will not go unchallenged. Warwick Weapons out of Warwick took non-violent direct […]

Students achieved an exciting investment success at Goldsmiths. After a decision to picket the warden, the college agreed to drop its shares in companies involved in the arms trade. Read the report by Grace Lally, from Goldsmiths Respect, in the Socialist Worker

After opening a dialogue with their finance director in December, following CAAT’s publication of shareholding figures, Bangor Uni Liberal Democrat Society (BULDS), Bangor Amnesty Student Group and United Nations Youth and Students Association secured divestment and the adoption of an ethical investment policy by their university. BULDS released the following statement on receiving such a […]

Leeds becomes the first UK University to divest from companies complicit with the Israeli military by Yousef Abdul-Fattah & Evie Russell-Cohen (Leeds Uni PSG) The divestment decision has been hailed as a win for Palestinians and the BDS movement with student groups across the country replicating this campaign. Following an intense BDS campaign by the […]

The conference On the 1st and 2nd September, students from across the UK came together at Manchester University Student Union to collaborate and organise in their demands for their universities to stop arming, funding and supporting Israel’s ongoing occupation and colonisation of Palestinian land, human rights abuses, and breaking of international law. The educational weekend […]

It’s been just over 3 months since I started working at Campaign Against Arms Trade – so I thought I’d write a quick update on what I’ve been up to so far! One of the first things I started working on was developing our campaign messaging and updating our materials. Thanks to Reading University students, […]

UCL student campaigners won a “tremendous victory” for human rights this week, when their student union passed a BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) motion. The motion was passed with a 67% majority, after a “riveting” debate at a UCL student union council meeting. The Union is now mandated to cut ties with corporate entities directly contributing […]

After a successful campaign by the University of Liverpool Friends of Palestine (ULFOP) and CAAT groups, students voted in support of a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) policy in a preferendum last week. The Liverpool Guild of Students now officially supports the Palestinian-led BDS movement and has a mandate to lobby the university to do the […]