Charities investing in arms trade identified
Howard Lake | 22 February 2001 | News
Charities, trade unions and the Labour party are among organisations who still hold shares in arms companies. Campaign Against Arms Trade’s annual survey identifies the Leukemia Research Fund, for example, as holding 10,000 shares in BAE Systems, “Britain’s biggest arms company,” according to The Guardian.
Find out more, including the Leukemia Research Fund’s response, in Sectors continue to invest in arms by Diane Taylor and Richard Norton-Taylor at SocietyGuardian.
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