Month: November 2012
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World Toilet Day
Today is World Toilet Day. Across the world, 1 in 3 women risk shame, disease, harassment and even attack because they have nowhere safe to go to the toilet. That’s 1.25 billion women – daughters, sisters, mothers, grandmothers. Our Honorary Co-President Glenys Kinnock has written a joint article for the Huffington Post – read it here. And…
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Shadow DfID statement on Government response to IDC report
Ivan Lewis MP, Labour’s Shadow International Development Secretary, responding to the Government’s response to the International Development Committee report on tax in developing countries said: I am disappointed that the Tory-led Government has rejected the Select Committee’s recommendation to conduct an analysis of the financial impact of the revised Controlled Foreign Companies (CFC) rules on…
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LCID Statement on UK aid to India
First published on Left Foot Forward The decision on Friday to withdraw UK aid to India beyond 2015 reveals a Secretary of State for International Development who is more concerned with the whims of her own MPs and the right-wing press than the wants of one third of the world’s poorest people. It once again highlights the weak…
Labour Campaign for International Development 