A report released by Cluster Munition Coalition members IKV Pax Christi (Netherlands) and Netwerk Vlaanderen (Belgium) has found that 138 financial institutions worldwide still provide over $20 billion to the producers of cluster bombs.
One of the producers listed is Lockheed Martin, the world's largest defence manufacturer who amongst other things produce Trident, Hercules aircraft and Merlin helicopters - all staples of the UK defence forces, and hence funded by the UK taxpayer. I'm not sure what amnesty are actually trying to achieve here - yes cluster bombs are wrong but I find this approach to be misleading. They are quoting huge funding figures which are more likely to be related to work such as space exploration than cluster bombs.
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