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Dutch NGOs Demand a Voice to Challenge Arms Exports

Topic
Military Civil liberties Law
Country/Region
Netherlands

28 October 2016

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"PILP-NJCM and peace organizations PAX and Stop Wapenhandel are appealing the judgment of the district court Noord Holland in the case on the arms trade license for Egypt. According to the court, the NGOs' case was inadmissible."

See: Dutch NGOs Demand a Voice to Challenge Arms Exports (Liberties.eu, link)

And see: Public Interest Litigation Project: Summary of Dutch Court ruling: Peace and human rights organisations voiceless against arms trade licenses (link to pdf)

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