Don’t Bank on the Bomb at Westminster Parliament

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On 10 November Wilbert and Maaike presented Don’t Bank on the Bomb 2015 to the All Parliamentary Group on Weapons and the Protection of Civilians.

The meeting was attended by parliamentarians and members of the House of Lords from 5 different political parties: Nia Griffith (Labour MP and chair of the Group), Baroness Jenny Jones (Green member of House of Lords), Baroness Sue Miller (member of the House of Lords for the LibDem party), Margaret Ritchie (SDLD MP), Ronnie Cowan (MP for the Scottish National Party) and David Lowry (of Labour MP Paul Flynn ’s office).

Other attendees included Rebecca Sharkey (ICAN UK), Elizabeth Minor (Article 36), Tim Hunt (Ethical Consumers), Ann Feltham (Campaign Against Arms Trade) and Rob van Riet (World Future Counsil).

Read a detailed report of the briefing and discussion by Rebecca Sharkey of ICAN UK here.
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About Maaike Beenes

Maaike Beenes works for the humanitarian disarmament program for PAX in the Netherlands. She researches investments by financial institutions in producers of controversial weapons, notably nuclear weapons and cluster munitions, and is co-author of the reports ‘Don’t Bank on the Bomb’ and ‘Worldwide Investments in Cluster Munitions’. As part of the Don’t Bank on the Bomb campaign of PAX and ICAN, she works together with campaigners around the world to hold banks and other investors accountable for their investments in nuclear and other controversial weapons. She was involved in the negotiations for the Treaty on the Prohibition on Nuclear Weapons on behalf of PAX and ICAN.