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Nicholas Gilby

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Nicholas Gilby led Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT)’s efforts to expose the corruption at the heart of Britain’s arms deals with Saudi Arabia over the past four decades. In 2008 he defeated Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office in an Information Tribunal to force the disclosure of many documents concerning corruption in Britain’s arms deals with Saudi Arabia.

His research on arms trade corruption has been extensively featured in The Guardian (and on the newspaper’s ‘BAE files’ website), TV (BBC Newsnight and Al Jazeera) and in an academic journal. He was previously a director of TAPOL, the Indonesia Human Rights Campaign.

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Average rating: 3.62 · 26 ratings · 8 reviews · 5 distinct works

	The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade 3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deception in High Places: A History of Bribery in Britain's Arms Trade 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nurturing Turkey's War Machine: Turkey and the Arms Trade 1998-2002: A Precis 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[(No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade)] [Author: Nicolas Gilbey] published on (September, 2009) by Nicholas Gilby (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Department With No Name: The Untold History of the Secret British Misinformation Unit that Subverted Elections, Incited Murder and Span Out of Control by Nicholas Gilby (Goodreads Author), James Oliver, Paul Lashmar 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2027	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The fatal flaw in the Arms Trade Treaty: we will never know if it has been effective

Last week in New York, the UN General Assembly voted to adopt the Arms Trade Treaty by 154 votes to 3 (http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/201...). The “Control Arms” NGOs and some states have claimed that this Treaty will save lives by denying human rights abusers, committers of atrocities etc. conventional weapons or weapons systems. However, the NGOs have never articulated how we will know if the Read more of this blog post »

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