Month: December 2010
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Anas Sarwar writes for LCID on the 2010 MDG Review
By Anas Sarwar, Glasgow Central MP and member of the International Development Select Committee If you’d like to get up to speed on progress toward the Millennium Development Goals, the International Development Select Committee’s report on the 2010 Review Summit is the ideal place to start. Published yesterday, it provides a detailed overview of where…
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Check out some of Mark Lazarowizc’s recent speeches
Mark Lazarowizc, Shadow Minister for International Development, has made a couple of speeches in the House of Commons recently. They’re worth checking out. There is one on Zimbabwe: on providing development assistance and supporting a transition to democracy. The other is on the subject of volunteering. Don’t forget, you can post comments below on what…
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Tony Blair at the Centre for Global Development
By Eilidh Macpherson, LCID Secretary Last week saw Tony Blair, in his role as Patron of the Africa Governance Initiative, present his vision for a new focus on governance in Africa with an event at the Centre for Global Development in Washington, where he launched his essay, “Not Just Aid: Making Government Work Can Transform…
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A message from Gordon Brown
A message from Gordon Brown to LCID supporters Dear friends, Earlier this week I released a manifesto for Jobs + Justice (available here) The basic argument is encapsulated in the extract below: “The re-entry of the moral claim into economic policy—the revival of political economy—is what makes me confident that the argument for a global growth…
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Will Human Rights have their day in Bangladesh?
By Claire Leigh You may not know it, but today (10th December) is World Human Rights Day. Coinciding the with the day that Liu Xiaobo fails to collect his Nobel Peace Prize, awarded for his tireless efforts to promote greater respect for human rights in China, this year’s celebration is a good time to reflect…
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Gordon Brown speaks to the GCE
By Richard Serunjogi, LCID BME Officer Gordon Brown last night argued that education is not only a basic human right but the key to economic growth and development. Mr Brown spoke at a Global Campaign for Education (GCE) event held at Bloomberg in London as part of the launch of his book, Beyond the Crash. We…
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TUC steps up its work to win ‘decent work’ for the world’s poorest people
By Gemma Tumelty, Programmes Officer, TUC The TUC has today published a new five year international development strategy, setting out how it plans to use members’ money and grants from the government and other organisations to raise wages and improve rights for some of the world’s poorest workers. Unions are already tackling poverty pay and…
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Huhne can easily stay in Cancun: Call Ming or Charles!
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Chris Huhne today risked embarrassing the UK delegation at the UNFCCC talks in Cancun by threatening to return home to vote for a large rise in student tuition fees. The UK has taken a lead role in negotiating the future of the Kyoto Protocol. Huhne has attempted…
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Gordon Brown + Avaaz to G20: Green Jobs and Stimulus Now
[YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHAibPjXnA4] Above: Gordon Brown sends an urgent message with the global online movement Avaaz, recorded in Bhalswa slum in Delhi, India This week, we could turn the tide of the global recession which is threatening progress on everything we care about, including strong action on climate change. It has already plunged 100 million people into…
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LCID International Development debate in Leeds with Hilary Benn
by Emma Hoddinott, Yorkshire & Humber rep on Labour’s National Policy Forum Accountability, the role of the private sector, trade, smart aid, health, governance and a Robin Hood Tax were just some of the topics covered in a two hour public debate on International Aid in Leeds. Though there was a danger of consensus breaking…
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