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November 30, 2019

Ministers urged to reject call for UK troops to use cluster bombs

The Prime Minister and the Defence Secretary have been urged to rule out any return to the use of cluster bombs by UK troops.
May 17, 2019

Proposed immunity for criminal acts by military a dangerous precedent, says Amnesty

Amnesty International says to exempt a certain group of people from facing justice would be a perversion of the law.
October 22, 2018

Warning that tearing up INF Treaty threatens Cold War nuclear escalation

Anti-nuclear campaigners condemn Donald Trump's announcement and call for popular action to prevent a return to Cold War nuclear escalation.
December 8, 2017

Are extrajudicial killings UK policy?

The UK Defence Secretary, Gavin Willamson, has been widely criticised after apparently threatening to have citizens who fought for Isil/Daesh killed.
December 7, 2017

Defence Secretary criticised over call to 'hunt down and kill' UK Islamic State fighters

The Defence Secretary, Gavin Williamson, has said that Britons who go abroad to fight for Islamic State should be hunted down and killed. He suggested that armed forces fighting IS in Iraq and Syria may now be targeting British jihadis.

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Call to halt UK police training programmes for repressive states

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Jan 13 2021

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Jan 13 2021

Jersey islanders invited to join citizens' jury on assisted dying

Jan 12 2021

Councils call for Ofsted school inspections not to be resumed

Jan 12 2021

Catholic bishops call on UK to 'forsake its nuclear arsenal'

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