Category: Aid
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BREXIT: A threat to tackling global poverty
By Mike Kane, Shadow Minister for International Development and Labour MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East – @MikeKaneMP Whatever side of the EU Referendum Debate you sit on it is hard to deny that being able to work collaboratively with some of the world’s strongest economies, to pool financial, institutional and technological resources enables…
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Invitation: Join LCID MPs in discussion of ‘Brexit’
In conjunction with the Labour Movement for Europe (LME) and Labour’s Environmental Campaign Group (SERA), LCID is hosting to an exclusive Panel Q&A on the evening of June 14th, 19.00-21.00, at UNITE Head Quarters in London. The evening’s discussion, entitled “Brexit: A danger to security, tackling climate change and international development”, will be addressed by…
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David Miliband makes the case for Britain in Europe
Today in London David Miliband, the former Foreign Secretary and current CEO of International Rescue Committee, delivered a speech making the case for the UK to remain in Europe, including why the EU matters for international development. Some of his comments are reproduced below: At the heart of our British success story in…
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On the 22nd Anniversary of the Genocide, Rwanda is defying both global expectations and wishes
By Claire Leigh – Consultant at UNDP, 2015 Labour Parliamentary Candidate and former Chair of LCID – @ClaireLeighLab It is almost frustrating to start every discussion on Rwanda by referencing the infamous genocide that took place there twenty two years ago. The country today is almost unrecognisable from the place that tore itself apart in 1994 at…
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Why 2016 is the year to leap, not shuffle, towards gender equality
By Emily and Katie Berrington Despite being the year that the United States may be set to welcome its first female president; the first year that Saudi Arabia’s female residents will live under municipal governments that they were able to vote in; and the year that more than 90 countries answered the UN Women’s call…
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Better off in – how the EU supports the fight against poverty
By Laura Kyrke-Smith, Chair of the Labour Campaign for International Development – @laurakyrkesmith Whether we like it or not, we live in a world where what happens in other parts of the world has an impact on our lives. The Government’s ability to protect people from terrorism here is affected by its ability to stop…
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Watch out for any budgetary backtracking on aid commitments
Supporters of international development should watch this week’s budget announcement very carefully. Overseas aid and the role of DFID are not usually at the forefront of a Chancellor’s mind when delivering a budget – personal taxation, welfare and big capital spending projects tend to get all the attention. But just because the budget is usually…
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Cameron may be breaking OECD aid rules to placate Tory backbenchers
As posted on Left Foot Forward. The Labour Campaign for International Development warned before the 2010 election that there was a risk the Conservatives would divert the aid budget away from poverty reduction and towards national security. Today’s news that hundreds of millions of pounds may be diverted to peacekeeping defence operations in bid toplacate backbenchers proves those warnings right. And it wasn’t…
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Labour’s Mark Hendrick Seeks Legal Commitment to 0.7%
Labour MP Mark Hendrick has used a private members bill to propose a binding legal commitment to ensure that 0.7% of UK GDP is spent on international aid. Writing to David Cameron this week he called for the Prime Minister to strongly support the measure, given concerns that the bill would fail to gain sufficient…
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There must be cross-party commitment to passing the 0.7% international aid bill
First published on Left Foot Forward Today presents a rare opportunity to ensure a commitment made in the election manifestos of all three parties and the coalition agreement is honoured – the pledge to enshrine the UK’s spending of 0.7% of gross national income into law. Labour and Co-operative MP Mark Hendrick has tabled a Private Member’s Bill on…
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