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MagForce (or Mag Force) International is a manufacturer of military equipment based in France, with head offices in the Paris suburb of Aubervilliers. The company sells equipment and vehicles to militaries and the police forces around the world, including uniforms and other clothing, armoured vehicles, and crowd control weaponry. The company’s website includes various water cannons, riot shields, and chemical weapons such as mace. MagForce International sells equipment to governments all over the world, and especially to African and Middle Eastern countries. It also markets equipment to private security companies.

 

In 2013, MagForce International was an exhibitor at the London arms fair, Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI). MagForce International were removed from the fair - alongside Chinese company Tian Jin MyWay International Trading - after human rights campaigners uncovered evidence that the company was marketing equipment banned in the UK because it can be used in torture (see title image), including leg restraints and electric stun guns. Activists tried to bring a private prosecution against both companies, but were restricted in doing so by the UK government.

The company has continued to exhibit at other arms fairs around the world, including MiliPol and Eurosatory in Paris, AidEx in Brussels, and at ShieldAfrica, an arms fair taking place in South Africa in January 2017.

According to CorporateWatch, in 2013 MagForce International supplied eight Zodiac inflatable boats to the Ivory Coast, despite a UN arms embargo. A UN report in 2012 that an arms trafficking network including Frédéric Lafont, who represented MagForce International at the time, of "repeated violations to the sanctions regime."

Am Donnerstag, den 25. Mai, hat die WRI ein Webinar zu Kriegsdienstverweigerung, Friedensbildung und Widerstand gegen Militarisierung der Jugend in Südkorea veranstaltet.

Jeden Monat werden wir einen anderen WRI-Partner vorstellen. In diesem Monat ist es ONAD, die Organisation für Gewaltfreiheit und Entwicklung aus dem Süd-Sudan.

ONAD arbeitet für eine gewaltlose, friedliche und demokratische Gesellschaft durch Training und Förderung von Gewaltfreiheit und Friedensarbeit, Regierung und politische Bildung, Förderung von Community & Gender und interne organisatorische Entwicklung.

ONAD ist das Akronym für Organisation for Nonviolence and Development (Organisation für Gewaltfreiheit und Entwicklung, vormals bekannt als SONAD und 1994 in Khartoum beim Höhepunkt des Bürgerkrieges gegründet). ONAD wurde im Glauben und der Überzeugung gegründet, dass gerechte, friedliche und demokratische Gesellschaften durch Menschen erreicht werden können, die sich ihrer zivilen und politischen Rechte bewusst sind. ONAD ist eine der Gewaltfreiheit gewidmete Organisation. Für ONAD bedeutet das die Verpflichtung zu Gerechtigkeit ohne Gewaltanwendung, die den Feind zerstört oder sein Eigentum. Wir glauben, dass eine auf Gewaltfreiheit aufgebaute Bewegung Ungerechtigkeiten kritisch analysieren und an der Befreiung sowohl der Unterdrückten als auch des Unterdrückten arbeiten sollte.

Verbindungen zu ONAD: Website | Facebook | Twitter

 

In May and June 2017, activists in Canada, Israel and France have taken nonviolent direct action against arms fairs. In Ottawa, Canada, 40 activists blockaded the entrance to the CANSEC fair for over an hour. CANSEC is an annual two day event hosting 800 companies from across the arms industries, and attended by 12,000 people. As well as exhibits of weapons and other equipment, attendees were given the opportunity to hear presentations from government ministers and attend evening receptions sponsored by Lockheed Martin.

Jamii Ya Kupatanisha Fellowship of Reconciliation in Uganda

Assoziierte Organisation

P.O Box 198, Kampala

Uganda
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