Author: Claire Leigh, Chair of LCID
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Happy New Year from LCID!
On behalf of the whole LCID executive committee, I’d like to wish all our supporters and members a Happy New Year! 2013 has been an incredible year for LCID, with a record number of blogs, tweets, events and members. The year was crowned in September by our formal affiliation to the Labour Party, a platform…
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Mandela will be missed, but the idea he lived for will live on.
Nelson Mandela had lived a long life, and yet his death still comes as a shock. Mandela is the preeminent statesman and public figure of our time. To imagine a world without Madiba in it is both disorienting and unsettling. For people growing up in the 1980s, the struggle for which Mandela has become an…
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Aid targets are aspirational – so let’s apply them to every country
This blog originally appeared in the Guardian’s Poverty Matters Blog, posted by Claire Leigh and Jonathan Glennie Britain may have just committed itself to reaching the 0.7% gross national income (GNI) aid target – the first G8 country to do so – but Justine Greening, the international development secretary, is keen to soften the blow to…
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The post-2015 Panel: An unenviable task
First published on Labour List The 27 eminent persons gathering in Monrovia this week to discuss what should replace the current set of Millennium Development Goals have a prodigiously difficult task ahead of them. The process to agree the original MDGs was contentious enough, but the ‘High Level Panel’ of world leaders selected by Ban Ki-Moon to help set…
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