Author: David Taylor
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Election Events for your diary!
LCID Election Events With the election just around the corner, LCID is putting on a number of events to help support Labour MPs. We’ll be supporting MPs who have done a lot on development, as well as MPs in seats where development may be an important electoral issue. Please put the following dates in your…
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Global Dinner Party for International Womens Day
Monday sees the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. To celebrate this, Sarah Brown’s White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood are encouraging people around the world to wear white and hold a dinner party in March for the 100th year of International Women’s Day on the 8th. Please get together with your friends, have some…
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Global Summit on Education to be held during World Cup
The Prime Minister and Sarah Brown welcomed President Zuma and his wife to Number 10. During the visit they met representatives from the charity 1Goal – education for all – including Steven Gerrard and South African Football Captain Aaron Mokoena. It was announed at the meeting that South Africa will host a global summit on…
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We will not turn our back on the world’s poor – Gordon Brown
Posted on Global Poverty Promise.com Five years ago, millions of us took part in the Make Poverty History Campaign. Everyone from rock stars, to church leaders, to members of the public mobilised to make 2005 a turning point in the fight against global poverty. Despite the horror of the 7/7 attacks on London, the G8…
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OECD: Britain meets aid promises, EU partners fall behind
First posted on Left Foot Forward. In 2005, the 15 EU countries who are members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) committed to spend 0.51 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI) by 2010. Today, the OECD reported that Britain was among a number of countries to have met that commitment but centre-right governments across…
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Will Cameron apologise for his visit to apartheid South Africa?
Our latest post for Left Foot Forward. On the 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, the Prime Minister said in a statement that Mandela remains an example that gives people the hope to “struggle anew” for “justice and freedom for all”. David Cameron, however, was under pressure to apologise for a visit he made to apartheid…
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Tories call Robin Hood tax “hopelessly naive” – despite its backing by world economists
Our latest post for Left Foot Forward. It is just two days since the “Robin Hood” tax launched and already 23,000 people have voted in favour on the campaign’s online poll: 13,000 signed up by email and 21,500 joined the Facebook Fan page. The Financial Times reported yesterday that Gordon Brown believes the IMF will…
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LCID backs the Robin Hood Tax
Today sees the launch of the Robin Hood Tax campaign by many of the key organisations responsible for the Make Poverty History campaign 5 years ago, including Oxfam, the TUC, ActionAid and Save the Children, backed by Comic Relief founder and film maker Richard Curtis. LCID would like to urge all party members to get behind…
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Supporting Gareth Thomas MP, DfID Minister of State
For the General Election, LCID wants to do its bit to support Labour MPs, be they MPs known for their support of international development, or marginal seats where international development may be of particular importance to voters. This Saturday we went out on the streets of Harrow West to support DfID Minister of State Gareth…
Labour Campaign for International Development 