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    EU complicity in Israeli human rights abuses
    February 2011
    Ben Hayes

    Evidence given at the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, and the EU's provision of research grants to Israeli security companies complicit in violations of human rights law.

    Blacklisted
    December 2010
    Ben Hayes
     Gavin Sullivan

    Human rights experts call for abolition of United Nations ‘terrorist list’ and wholesale reform of EU blacklisting regime.

    Get all US forces and mercenaries out of Iraq
    November 2010
    Kamil Mahdi

    War and Sanctions continue to be used to manipulate and control Iraq. Joy Gordon's recent book on the sanctions and US policy shows them being used by the US and Britain, not as an alternative to war as many in the international community may have intended, but as a means of softening in...

    Profiteers of the occupation of Palestine should be excluded from the ESRP
    November 2010
    Ben Hayes

    Quakers call for an end to participation of Israeli companies “that profit from the occupation of Palestine” in EU security research programme

    The EU Security-industrial Complex
    September 2010
    Ben Hayes

    The EU approach to security is starting to eclipse the rule of law, with very little consideration of human rights.

    Should the EU subsidise Israeli security?
    March 2010
    Ben Hayes

    The inclusion of Israel in the European Security Research Programme undermines the EU's commitment to even-handedness in the Middle East.

    Potentially powerful: The European Defence Agency at five years
    October 2009
    Frank Slijper

    While it is too early to effectively evaluate the EDA, its lack of accountability in an increasingly militarised European Union is deeply problematic.

    Interview: Neoconopticon report
    September 2009
    Ben Hayes

    The lack of debate on EU's emerging policies on security is not just about "sleepwalking into a surveillance society”, it is also turning a blind eye to the start of a new kind of arms race, one in which all the weapons are pointing inwards.

    NeoConOpticon
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    September 2009
    Ben Hayes

    Are we turning a blind eye to a new kind of arms race? One in which all the weapons are pointing inwards? This report reveals the extent to which Europe’s largest defence and IT contractors are benefiting from a €1.4 billion EU “security research” programme.

     

    Big business and security
    September 2009
    Ben Hayes

    In its haste to cash-in on the security boom, the EU has outsourced its research agenda to corporate self-interest.

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