Month: May 2012
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Gambling on hunger: commodity trading & food prices
Tuesday 19 June from 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM – Committee Room 8, Houses of Parliament LCID and the Co-operative Party are co-hosting this event on the transparency of commodity trading, food speculation and the price of food. In a world where a billion people do not have enough to eat, we need to sort out the…
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Oxfam: Be Outraged: Austerity isn’t working
by Richard Jolly. Richard is a Research Associate at the Institute of Development Studies at University of Sussex and former UN Assistant Secretary General. European leaders pushing austerity as the solution to the current economic crisis are guilty of bad economics, bad arithmetic and ignoring the lessons of history. That’s not just my view but the considered…
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Lord McConnell Lives Below the Line
by Lord Jack McConnell With over one billion people in our world living on less than £1 a day, the challenge of tackling extreme global poverty in our world can seem both overwhelming and, for many, far removed from our own reality. The solutions for this situation, like the reasons behind it, are complex and…
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Come to LCID’s Members Reception
On Wednesday 13th June we will be holding our first LCID Reception with our Honorary Co-President’s Rachel Reeves MP and Baroness Glenys Kinnock – and Shadow Secretary of State Ivan Lewis MP. It will take place from 18:30-19:30 in the CPA Room, Westminister Hall, Parliament, London. We would be delighted if you were able to…
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Labour respond to the Queen’s Speech
Ivan Lewis MP and Baroness Kinnock respond strongly to the government’s omission of legalisation to enshrine the UK’s commitment to reach 0.7% aid. Ivan said; The Government’s failure to include the 0.7% aid commitment in legislation in the first Queen’s Speech breached a clear Tory manifesto commitment and a key element of the coalition agreement.…
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The Politics of Development
This article was first published by The Fabian Society. Two years ago, the G20 committed themselves to promoting inclusive and sustainable economic growth, having argued that ‘for prosperity to be sustained it must be shared.’ Yet as world leaders prepare to attend the next G20 Summit in Mexico next month, new data from Oxfam has…
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Failing to Include 0.7% Legislation in the Queen’s Speech Breaches Promises Made to the Electorate
The government once again failed to introduce legislation committing the UK to spending 0.7% of GNI on international development in the Queen’s Speech today. Unlike all the broken promises of the past, this has life or death implications for world’s poorest people. As the Independent reports: The coalition agreement stated that Britain would meet the United Nations…
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Lord Boateng reports on the UK supported vaccine rollout in Ghana
Lord Paul Boateng travelled to Ghana for World Immunization Week (21st – 28th April), to celebrate the country becoming the first African country to introduce pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines at the same time, simultaneously tackling the leading causes of the world’s two biggest childhood killers – pneumonia and diarrhoea. Globally, pneumonia and severe infant diarrhoea…
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