Author: timnicholls
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Labour Campaign for International Development’s response to the CSR and SDSR.
The commitment to ring fence UK aid and reach 0.7 per cent of GDP is welcome, and a testament to the hard work of many Labour MPs in the last Government and anti-poverty campaigners in making this a consensus issue in the eyes of the British public. However, as with the rest of the Comprehensive…
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Development charities speak out over diverting aid to war zones
The Guardian is carrying a strong piece today, highlighting the anger from several development charities over aid spending, including Save the Children and Oxfam. The Government’s plans militarise aid spending and would lead to many very poor, but stable, countries losing out on aid. We at LCID believe this is dangerous. We will be releasing…
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Check out all our #BAD10 blogs from today
Today was Blog Action Day, focusing on water. To mark this day, four members of LCID have blogged on several sites. Rather than having you trawling through the internet, we’ve got links to all four of them here. So check them out! First off, Steve Cockburn discusses the right to water and how the Tories…
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Steve Cockburn on the human right to water
There’s a very interesting blog by LCID’s Steve Cockburn over on the Progress site about the Tories pulling out of the process to recognise the right to water. In July the UK abstained on a UN resolution tabled by the president of Bolivia recognising access to water and sanitation as a human right, due to…
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IMF gets behind the possibility of a Robin Hood Tax
An interesting blog has come up on Touchstone Blog saying that the IMF has admitted that the Robin Hood Tax is a possibility. The article is well worth a read. The paper, a draft of which was leaked a month ago, admits that an FTT is possible, lists the 16 G20 countries who already have…
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Richard Howitt MEP hosts event this weekend on regulating banks
This weekend, Richard Howitt, MEP for the East of England will be hosting an event on the future regulation of banks, after the financial crisis. There will be a speaker from the Robin Hood Tax campaign there. The details of the event are: Saturday 16 October 10am for a 10:30am start – 1pm finish Alex…
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Could the Government be about to destroy the International Development Act?
By Margaret Dantas Araujo Some of the UK’s biggest charities, Oxfam, CAFOD, and Save the Children, have publically raised concerns about the growing threat of securitisation of the aid budget. The use of aid for political reasons would be in direct contravention of the International Development Act 2002. The act, explicitly states, (1)The Secretary of…
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Is economic success masking political fault lines in Rwanda?
By Lee Butcher Lee Butcher is a Researcher in the House of Commons for a Labour MP – all points expressed are done so in a personal capacity. In this post, Lee explores whether economic reform is outpacing political reform in Rwanda. The concerns raised by the recent re-election of President Kagame in Rwanda and…
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Conservatives plan foreign office raid on DfID
By Margaret Dantas Araujo Poverty reduction in the world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries is best achieved when DfID is directing the deployment of our aid budget. However, yet another leaked memo has shed light on Tory intentions to bring Dfid cash under the control of the Foreign Office by requesting that UK security be…
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All the leadership videos, here, in one place…
Over the past few days, we’ve released videos of each of the Labour leadership candidates answering your questions. Here are the videos again, in one article. Don’t forget to comment at the bottom of the page and tell us what you think of their answers. Could they be better? Do you think the candidates have…
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