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Strategic Arms Export Controls

The folders contain materials on arms export controls. There are various newspaper clippings, articles, letters, correspondence, House of Commons/Lords written and oral debates, speeches, press releases, HOC Agenda/order of business, Background briefings, Joint Inquiries, White Paper, UK Campaign strategy papers, Ministry of Defence papers, The Export of Goods(Control) (Amendment No.2) Order papers, memorandums, submissions, a business card.

There are various reports and publications such as from Strategic Export Controls, DTI Export Controls, House of Commons Defence, Foreign Affairs, International Development and Trade and Industry Committee, Session 1998-1999: Committees' Inquiry into the 1997 and 1998 Annual Reports on Strategic Export Controls, NGOs', Labour Action for Peace, Working Group on Arms, World Development Movement, Greenpeace, Networker Newsletter and Labour Peace Action and British American Security Information Council

Arms Export Press

The folders contain various articles, newspaper clippings, briefings, Labour news releases, book extracts, HOC written answers : 1997- 1999, Fabian Society publications, CAAT papers, transcript of "File on 4", EDMs, Christian Socialist Movement Quarterly Magazine- Autumn 1996, Amnesty International papers, EU Code of Conduct on arms papers and publications, Democratic Socialism into the 21st Century papers, Photocopied SIPRI Yearbook 1995: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, Annual Report breakdown summary, Saferworld - South African Arms Procurement, Resource Pack: Countering the Arms Trade - Churches Count the Cost, The Ministry of Waste: A Catalogue of MoD Financial Incompetence - An Update, World Military Expenditure graph tables, Weapons Decisions: Proposals for an Informed Parliament , Responsibility in Arms Transfer Policy report, R.H. Tawney Annual Lecture and The Parliamentary Monitor- Information Digest

Foreign Affairs Committee

The box contains Foreign Affairs Committee papers from 2011-2013. There are letters, correspondence, a Written Ministerial Statement, Justice paper, Memorandums, Newspaper clippings, articles, Parliamentary Questions, documents and various reports including Committee reports. On the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, arms exports, NGOs and EGAD, EU, Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012, Brazil, Middle East, North Africa, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain Programs, Report from the Foreign Affairs Committee Session 2010-12: FCO Performance and Finances, and a BBC World Service Annual Review 2009/10.

Saudia Arabia/Yemen

The folders contain materials on the topic of human rights and arms sales in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. These include letters, correspondence, Committees on Arms Export Controls papers including meeting minutes, articles, ministerial statement, HOC Parliamentary questions extracts and letters.

There are also book chapter extracts regarding Parliament- Privilege of Freedom of Speech, Contempt, and Complaints of Breach of Privilege or Contempt,

Subject Files

The boxes contains various topic folders: Strategic Export Controls, Israel and Palestine, Electric Shock Batons, Broiler Chickens, Welsh Affairs, Brazilian Government, Freedom of Information Act, Sanctions, Quadriparite Committee papers, Seal Hunts, Star Wars, Whaling, Yangtze, Government and Environment, Alex Palmer, police repression, correspondence on meeting Taiwan Ambassador and Chinese Embassy visit, Augusto Pinochet, Robin Cook and Labour Action For Peace.

In the folders, there are press releases, articles, newspaper clippings, House of Commons parliamentary questions, court sessions/affairs, visit programmes, letters, correspondence, information sheets, leaflets, memorandums, submissions, meeting minutes, maps of Israel/Palestine, briefing papers, written ministerial statement, House of Commons minutes of evidence Taken Before the International Development Committee, Rio Summit newspapers clippings, International Development Committee papers, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, a business card, article on Meningitis in Pontypridd, photographs of a Union Parade in New York, a script, Multinational Companies (Liability and Accountability) Bill, and National Century Foundation Table list and event.
Plus reports, newsletters and papers from NGO's, Overseas Development Administration, Ai-Kameli Trust, NESTLE, International Labour Organization, Labour Action For Peace, Export Credits Guarantee Department, Reebook Human Rights Award

Foreign Affairs Committee - By Country

The box contains various country folders - Turkey, Russia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Yemen, Montserrat, India, Africa, Antarctica, Syria, Cambodia and and a bundle of papers covering the 'Middle East' region.
They include articles, newspaper clippings, letters, correspondence, case papers, press releases, book extracts, Visit programme and reports, various reports, Government Response to the House of Commons - Foreign Affairs Committee Reports, guest lists, HOC oral debates, briefings, Parliamentary Questions, Non-Governmental Organisation's papers, All-Party Parliamentary Human Rights papers, House of Commons Research Notes, High Court of Justice hearing papers, invitations and a lunch seating plan.

The folders cover human rights, EU referendum, manufactured arms sales, Gambia Politics, South Africa Bill, Greenpeace, John Pilger's work, British Public Health operations complaints, The Magnitsky Amendment, Cambodian conflict, Georgia and Russia war, Kashmir