Author: lcidblog
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The Right to Education
By Alison McGovern MP, Shadow Minister for International Development Recently, the kidnapping of over 200 Nigerian girls has received widespread publicity and anger from across the globe. These issues must not fade from the public eye. Just because the news agenda moves on, the suffering does not lessen, and the careful work to return the…
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Coalitions of Conscience
By Dr. Graham Giles MBE, LCID Executive Committee Labour Affiliates can punch above their weight on matters of moral responsibility by standing together, not least on the future aid budget. Christians on the Left are providing resources to help local church groups up and down the country to become more active in local and national…
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The next Labour Government must fight for the poorest abroad, as well as at home
By Mike Smith, LCID’s Executive Committee 2015 will be a decisive year, not just because the General Election gives Labour the chance to regain power, but because it is the year when global leaders decide both what will replace the Millennium Development Goals and look to agree a new deal on climate change. The stakes…
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Labour’s effort to enshrine UK aid in law is far from over
By Jim Murphy, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development Whenever development hits the press, the Tory right hit the roof. Yesterday’s papers were full of reports that this government might finally give in to pressure and fulfil its commitment to legislate to spend 0.7% Gross National Income on Official Development Assistance. Naturally, the usual…
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Undernutrition in the Land of Rice
By Nic Dakin, MP for Scunthorpe A year ago today the UK hosted an important conference on Nutrition and Food Security. Called Nutrition for Growth, the event showed that 165 million children around the world are chronically malnourished (stunted) and 52 million children are acutely malnourished. Its difficult to make sense of such big numbers,…
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Labour and Europe – development on the doorstep
As the European elections draw closer, we have prepared a pack to help Labour MEP candidates and their teams talk about Europe and international development on the doorstep. We include key messages on why a Labour Europe is good for international development, top facts about the impact of European aid, and also answers to the…
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Labour Call for Government Statement on Search for Nigerian Schoolgirls
by Ian Lucas, Labour Spokesman for Africa Over 200 girls have been missing in Nigeria for almost three weeks. The blunt truth of that statement is shocking, and more abductions have since taken place. In recent days, Boko Haram have claimed responsibility for the abductions from Chibok in a chilling statement. This, their latest heinous…
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Live Below the Line 2014
Lord McConnell This morning I have started my Live Below the Line challenge for 2014. It is sometimes hard to believe that people are still living on less than £1 a day in the 21st Century, but around 1 billion of our fellow human beings do. They and their children die too young, they suffer from…
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Mexico meeting on effective development cooperation: Flash in the pan or slow burner?
By Claire Leigh, Chair of the Labour Campaign for International Development At a meeting in Busan, Korea in 2011 the international development community met to discuss how to improve aid effectiveness. The major outcome of that meeting was the establishment of ‘The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation’, a broad collection of donors, international organisations,…
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Jim Murphy has set out an ambitious (and Labour) vision for development
Claire Leigh, Chair of the Labour Campaign for International Development Since its earliest days Labour has been an internationalist party and proud of it, too. From Keir Hardy and Harold Wilson to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, those who shaped Labour’s vision in the 20th and early 21st Century regarded the fight against poverty overseas…
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