Campaigns
Stop arms trade to Saudi Arabia
The UK Court of Appeal has found that UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia are unlawful.
The Court found the UK government to have failed in its legal obligation to make a systematic assessment of the risk of serious violations of International Humanitarian Law by Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia leads a coalition in a protracted war in Yemen. Many breaches of humanitarian and human rights law have been alleged.
Australia must cease military exports to saudi arabia.
Australia has an obligation, under domestic law and as a signatory to the Arms Trade Treaty, to assess military exports against the risk of human rights abuses and serious violations of humanitarian and human rights law.
Australian officials have failed to provide evidence of lawful risk assessment and monitoring of exports to Saudi Arabia.
Australian officials have kept exports to Saudi Arabia secret, and provided tens of millions of dollars of direct subsidies to companies profiting from exports to parties leading the war in Yemen.
We're calling for an end to military and strategic exports to Saudi Arabia.
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MAY 2019
We've teamed up with Save the Children Australia and a national network of NGOs and activists to take concerted action on the Australian arms trade.
SEPTEMBER 2019
Australia’s arms deals ignoring ‘gross violations of human rights’
Read Ben Doherty's piece in the Guardian.
JULY 2019
MAPW PRESIDENT ON AUSTRALIAN ARMS CONTROL
Watch Dr Sue Wareham's interview on ABC News Channel, 25 July 2019
ABC reveals destination of Australian Exports
Australian Arms Control Coalition announced, calls for greater scrutiny
JUNE 2019
UK arms sales to Saudi for use in Yemen ruled unlawful
Read the summary of the Court's ruling.
Yemen conflict: why a British court ruling could matter for Australia
Could litigation to stop UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia provide a blueprint for action in Australia?
Read Grace Williamson's analysis in the The Interpreter.
FEBRUARY 2019
Australian Government under fire over export of weapons system to war crime-accused Saudi Arabia
Read Dylan Welch's ABC News expose, with comment from MAPW.
BACKGROUNDER
UAE & Saudi Arabia: Australia's Conspiracy of Silence
Read lawyer and human rights activist Kellie Tranter's detailed investigation.
BACKGROUNDER
Defence exports and the Arms Trade Treaty – is Australia missing in action?
Read Susan Hutchinson's analysis of defence exports in the age of the Arms Trade Treaty.