Month: October 2010
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Read Harriet Harman’s letter to LCID’s members
When she was appointed Shadow International Development Secretary, we wrote to Harriet Harman, congratulating her on her new brief and telling her about our work. Harriet’s been back in touch with a letter addressed to all LCID’s members, making it her passion for development clear. We are really excited about building on the great foundations…
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Great article on financial transactions tax
Very quick post to let you know about a great article on The Guardian website, in case you haven’t seen it. Ben Phillips writes about the financial transaction tax and the discussions that are due to take place about it at the upcoming G20 summit. He also talks about the need for campaigners to keep…
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New Shadow Secretary sets up local international development group
The new Shadow International Development Secretary, Harriet Harman, has established an international development advisory panel in her constituency, Camberwell and Peckham. The new panel, which will be hosted using virtual groups will have regular contact with and will meet regularly at Southwark Town Hall in Peckham. Speaking about the panel and her new brief, Harriet…
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Labour Campaign for International Development’s response to the CSR and SDSR.
The commitment to ring fence UK aid and reach 0.7 per cent of GDP is welcome, and a testament to the hard work of many Labour MPs in the last Government and anti-poverty campaigners in making this a consensus issue in the eyes of the British public. However, as with the rest of the Comprehensive…
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Harriet Harman responds to the Comprehensive Spending Review
Statement from Harriet Harman, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, on the Comprehensive Spending Review: “We welcome the government’s commitment to continue with Labour’s target of 0.7% of GNI on overseas aid from 2013 but freezing the percentage of aid for two years will inevitably beg the question about whether they will deliver…
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Development charities speak out over diverting aid to war zones
The Guardian is carrying a strong piece today, highlighting the anger from several development charities over aid spending, including Save the Children and Oxfam. The Government’s plans militarise aid spending and would lead to many very poor, but stable, countries losing out on aid. We at LCID believe this is dangerous. We will be releasing…
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Check out all our #BAD10 blogs from today
Today was Blog Action Day, focusing on water. To mark this day, four members of LCID have blogged on several sites. Rather than having you trawling through the internet, we’ve got links to all four of them here. So check them out! First off, Steve Cockburn discusses the right to water and how the Tories…
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Steve Cockburn on the human right to water
There’s a very interesting blog by LCID’s Steve Cockburn over on the Progress site about the Tories pulling out of the process to recognise the right to water. In July the UK abstained on a UN resolution tabled by the president of Bolivia recognising access to water and sanitation as a human right, due to…
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IMF gets behind the possibility of a Robin Hood Tax
An interesting blog has come up on Touchstone Blog saying that the IMF has admitted that the Robin Hood Tax is a possibility. The article is well worth a read. The paper, a draft of which was leaked a month ago, admits that an FTT is possible, lists the 16 G20 countries who already have…
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Richard Howitt MEP hosts event this weekend on regulating banks
This weekend, Richard Howitt, MEP for the East of England will be hosting an event on the future regulation of banks, after the financial crisis. There will be a speaker from the Robin Hood Tax campaign there. The details of the event are: Saturday 16 October 10am for a 10:30am start – 1pm finish Alex…
Labour Campaign for International Development 