Australia has issued many permits for exporting military goods to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, both of whom are heavily involved in the Yemen civil war.
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Human rights groups are calling on Australia to ban arms exports to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, following the lead of the Biden administration.
Canada’s minister of international development, Marie-Claude Bibeau, launches Canada’s new Feminist International Assistance Policy during an event in Ottawa in June 2017. Canada is set to announce a feminist foreign policy soon.
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Sweden has enacted what’s known as a feminist foreign policy, and Canada plans on doing the same. One fly in the ointment is both countries’ arms sales and how they’re at odds with feminism.
The UK’s list of weapons buyers includes some dubious regimes.
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The UK has never ironed out the ethics of its role in the arms trade. Will the debate ever be resolved?
BAE Systems displaying the Typhoon fighter jet.
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One of the UK’s biggest export industries depends heavily on cooperation with other EU member states.