Month: December 2009
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Evo Morales – from poverty to power
Exit polls over the weekend put Evo Morales on course for an overwhelming victory in Bolivia’s Presidential election. As the Guardian said in their editorial today, this victory has gone a long way to making the social transformation inside Bolivia irreversible. Such a transformation was unthinkable as recently as nine years ago. Then, Bolivia was…
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Have a break, have a [Fairtrade] Kit Kat
Great news today as Kit Kat, Britain’s biggest selling chocolate biscuit, will go Fairtrade from January. About 1 billion Kit Kats are sold every year in the UK and the switch is set to guarantee a better deal for more than 6,000 Ivorian cocoa farmers. Gareth Thomas MP, our Trade & Development Minister said: “I…
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Sierra Leone Christmas Carol Concert
What: WAYout Christmas Carol Concert When: 19.00, Thursday 17 December Where: St. Giles Church, 60 St. Giles High Street, London WC2H 8LG Tickets: £12. Buy online. WAYout , an arts-based social charity working in Sierra Leone, is putting on a carol concert as a fundraiser in London on Thursday 17 December at St. Giles Church. The African…
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Copenhagen is an opportunity for International Development too
There is welcome news of a $10 billion fund to support countries to develop their capacities to deal with climate change and it is vital that this fund becomes properly entrenched in the climate change regime. But why do we need it? Why do we, in the West, have to bail out ‘third world’ countries…
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Join The Wave this Saturday + Ed’s Pledge
What: The Wave Climate March When: 11.30 – 16.00, this Saturday 05 December Where: Grosvenor Square, London (meet by the Labour & Unison Banners) On Saturday 5 December 2009, ahead of the crucial UN climate summit in Copenhagen, tens of thousands of people from all walks of life will flow through the streets of London to…
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Global Leadership Shown on Aids
World Aids Day: A time to remember the lost and for the world to take action to ensure a preventable disease ravaging many developing countries doesn’t blight future generations. I started working on HIV and Aids with the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) in South Africa in 2005. The country was in the midst of a…
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Trade Unions tackling AIDS
World Aids Day is an important time to stop and think, and an important moment to be open and honest, raise awareness and dispel the stigma of HIV/AIDS. I will always remember the first time I wore a red ribbon on the 1st December. I was at secondary school, and I didn’t think twice about…
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Gordon Brown’s World AIDS Day message
The African Children’s Choir today made a stop off at Number 10 today to mark World AIDS Day…and were really really cool!! You can hear them by visiting http://africanchildrenschoir.com/ The event was hosted by Gordon Brown & Glenys Kinnock. Please have a look at the PM’s message for World AIDS Day below. “Over the last…
Labour Campaign for International Development 