Category: Labour in the World
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A WORLD FOR THE MANY, NOT THE FEW – LABOUR’S POLICY FOR DEVELOPMENT
LCID member Caroline Pinder blogs on development policy and what Labour could do differently Caroline has been a member of the Labour Party for 45 years, currently in Oxford East CLP. She has been an international development consultant for the past 30 years, focusing on gender equality and social inclusion, VAWG and women’s economic empowerment.
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A global NHS: from competition to collaboration
William Townsend, Business Development Officer for THET @Willmo1 Turning 70 this year, the NHS continues to be Britain’s most cherished institution. And rightly so, in all this time it remains one of the world’s greatest social achievements. It also happens to be the 70th anniversary of the docking of the Empire Windrush, an important reminder
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The rise and fall of human rights
Stephen Tunstall, Palestine & Israel Programme Manager for Embrace the Middle East blogs about why Labour should adopt a humans rights focused foreign policy @SCTunstall Tony Blair’s famous 1999 Chicago speech set out a foreign policy doctrine to guide Britain through the twenty first century. It makes for a fascinating read in hindsight. Predicting that
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It’s essential for our NHS that we end the era of the British tax haven
This article first appeared on LabourList on Tuesday 1 November By Mike Kane, Shadow Minister for International Development and Labour MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East – @MikeKaneMP Theresa May has pledged a crackdown on tax havens. She should start by cleaning up our own backyard – the secretive network of UK-linked tax havens like the
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Tories plot to divert aid away from world’s poorest
By Sam Rusthworth, LCID’s Membership & CLP Relations Officer – @SamJRushworth There were gasps and raised eyebrows when Theresa May appointed Priti Patel as Minister for International Development in her new right-wing cabinet, but Patel’s first appearance before MPs last week suggests anyone concerned about global poverty is right to be worried. In July, while
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Owen Smith MP – my commitment to tackling poverty at home and abroad
Owen Smith MP, candidate in the 2016 Labour Leadership contest, blogs for LCID on his commitment to international development – @OwenSmith_MP Anyone in any doubt about the right-wing agenda of this new Tory government should take a look at two of Theresa May’s lesser commented-on appointments over the summer – that of Priti Patel as International Development
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Owen Smith MP signs LCID pledge for Leadership candidates
As with previous leadership contests in 2010 and 2015, LCID will not be endorsing a leadership candidate in the current contest. However we have asked candidates to sign the International pledge for 2016 Leadership candidates. We are delighted that Owen Smith MP has signed the pledge and agreed to uphold the principles it contains. We
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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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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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