Author: timnicholls
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Phone canvassing with Mike Foster
Come along to Labour Party HQ on Thursday and help us phone-canvass for Worcester MP and International Development Minister, Mike Foster. Please email nick@lcid.org.uk by this Wednesday evening (17 March) to put your name down to come along. We will need to add your name to the list to get past security. If you can’t…
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LCID attends Rankin exhibition at 10 Downing Street
David and I were delighted that LCID were invited to 10 Downing Street to look at an exhibition by the photographer Rankin on his pictures from the DRC. The event was attended by charities, NGOs and publications looking to write a piece with a development slant. It was great to meet everyone and get a…
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LCID helping out in Poplar and Limehouse!
LCID will be joining Jim Fitzpatrick and his team in Poplar and Limehouse on Saturday 20th March. We will be meeting at 10.30am at Devons Road DLR station for campaigning and then will break for lunch together. It promises to be a really fun day knocking on doors, enjoying a lunch together and hopefully all…
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The effect of HIV/AIDS on women in the developing world
Huge advancements have been made in the fight against HIV/AIDS since the 80s, but the fight is getting harder and numbers of people contracting HIV are growing. This International Women’s Day, it is worth pausing to contemplate the disproportionately devastating toll that this infection takes on women in the developing world. We have all heard…
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What has Labour done for Fairtrade?
Today is the first day of the Fairtrade Fortnight, which runs from 22 February to 7 March. Around the world, millions of lives have been touched, changed and improved by Fairtrade: providing decent earnings to producers in developing countries. This year, the theme of the Fairtrade Fortnight is “The Big Swap”. Think about the products…
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LCID and Co-operative Youth helping out in Brighton
LCID and Co-operative Youth are teaming up and heading down to Brighton to help out. There will be doorknocking and delivering across both days of the weekend, so please come along for either day if you’re free! 10:30 am at Hill House, Walpole Road, BN2 0LS on both days. Come along and help out the…
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International Women’s Day TUC Event
It is almost time for this year’s International Women’s Day (held on the 8th March each year), a day on which a huge many events are held throughout the world: to celebrate the achievements of women, to encourage further action as well as being a day which signals solidarity with other women throughout the globe.…
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What are your priorities for International Development?
The Labour Party is running a poll on international development. What do you think should be the priorities? You can take part in the poll on the Global Poverty Promise website. Your responses will be sent to the Labour manifesto team so this is a great opportunity to have your voice heard on international development. The…
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Trade Unions and Haiti
Trade unions have played a highly valuable and multifaceted role in Haiti. In many ways the nature of the response by trade unions, not only in the region but around the world and within the UK illustrates the valuable role they can play in international development. While recent newspaper reports, notably in the Times, have…
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Prime Minister criticises climate change skeptics as group to fund developing countries launched
Gordon Brown has criticised climate change sceptics as going “against the grain” of all the scientific evidence, as he launched a new group to raise the money promised by developed countries at Copenhagen. The United Nations High Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing will be co-chaired by the Prime Minister and Meles Zenawi, the…
Labour Campaign for International Development 