Author: lcidblog
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Sunday Mail and Jim Murphy MP investigate the Qatar construction industry ahead of FIFA World Cup 2022
Inside the Qatar 2022 World Cup camps: “The treatment of migrant workers is no longer the ugly secret of the beautiful game – we know the truth and football has to act.” says Jim Murphy.
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DFID under Labour – Development and Power
Jim Murphy, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, speech at the ONE Campaign Good afternoon, and thank you to the ONE Campaign for hosting today. The ONE Campaign, is an organisation set up to change the world as it is, something that in the last decade you and others have worked tirelessly to do. I’m here…
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LCID reports from Scottish Labour Party Conference
LCID Scottish Officer Alastair Osborne sent this report from the Scottish Labour Party Conference. The LCID Fringe Meeting at the Scottish Labour Party Conference in Perth (21 March) was well attended and a great success. The main focus was the Football4Africa event with delegates and visitors asked to bring along a football strip of their…
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Labour European Election Fundraiser on 1st April
Labour needs a strong voice in Europe, not least to defend the work the EU does on international development. To show your support, attend the Labour London fundraiser for the European Election. The evening offers the opportunity to meet the London Labour Candidates, and Glenys Kinnock, Labour Party Member of the European Parliament from 1994…
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LCID stands #WithSyria
The British public can send strong message to the UK Government that this year must be the last one of the conflict. The war in Syria will have been raging for three years this Saturday, March 15. The date marks the third anniversary of the start of the ongoing conflict. Over the past three years,…
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Can you dig out an old football top for Africa? Football4Africa at Scottish Conference
Everyone attending the Scottish Labour Party Conference in Perth later this month has been asked by Shadow Secretary of State, Jim Murphy, to bring along a football top for Africa. Football4Africa collect old football kits – of any size – and send them to countries like Uganda, Malawi and Burkina Faso to those who’ll wear…
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On UKIP & the Mail’s shameless ploy…
The recent floods in the South of England have helped UKIP and the Daily Mail set a debate raging across radio phone-ins about whether part of the UK’s aid budget should be used to fund the response. There are plenty of reasons why this is a bad idea but instead of rattling through them…
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A review of the Fabian One Nation in the World Paper
Last week the Fabian Society launched an excellent pamphlet exploring the values and strategy that could constitute Labour’s foreign policy. It is also good food for thought for the development community. Development and foreign policies will of course be made in the same context and informed by the same values. But this pamphlet demonstrates how…
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Huff Puffing Tories and Pro-poor growth: Can’t do it at home, won’t do it abroad.
At the most recent DFID question time in Parliament, Tory MP, Nick De Bois, put it to Justine Greening that “encouraging democracy among the people is wasted when the leaders seem not to wish to practise it”. Dictators around the world would be rubbing their hands with glee at such sentiments if they were not…
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Event: Eyewitness to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Feb 11th, 6.30pm)
Dear Friend of LCID, LCID is pleased to begin its 2014 events programme with a discussion on issues of human rights in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In Autumn last year LCID member Melanie Ward served as a Human Rights Observer in the West Bank. For 3 months she lived and worked in Hebron, one of the most tense areas…
Labour Campaign for International Development 