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Community broadcast: Human Rights, Health, Education and Justice
LCID Exec member Graham Giles started what he hopes will be a series of community broadcasts about International Development on Unity 101 Radio. In this first post, they talk about Human Rights, Health, Education and Justice. You can listen to the full post here. About Unity 101 Community Radio Cultural Media Enterprise Limited is an independent locally…
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LCID’s submission to the International Development Select Committee
This month LCID made a submission to the UK Parliament’s International Development Select Committee on “Beyond Aid: The Future UK Approach to Development”. Our submission starts with the broad approach to development that we believe is right. We look at why we think the Government’s current focus on poverty relief is not enough. We set…
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Guest post: Beyond aid, ending global poverty is about politics
Martin Drewry is Director of Health Poverty Action, he writes here in a personal capacity Ending global poverty is not about providing aid. It is about politics. The solutions to mass poverty lie in tackling its unjust causes, not relieving its symptoms through charity. Deep down, anyone who works in development knows this. Yet if…
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The UK must retain its position as a global leader in international development
By David Hulme, Professor of Development Studies at the University of Manchester and Executive Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute It looks, thankfully, like DFID has survived the brunt of austerity savings made since the financial crash of 2008. While backroom costs have been cut, the government has stuck to its commitment to earmark…
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LCID at Labour Party Conference 2014
Thank you all who attended our events at conference this year. We had a great few days and it was fantastic to meet so many LCID members and supporters. Below are a few highlights from over the last few days: Rally for Internationalism: …
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Criminalising Love: working together to challenge state-sponsored homophobia
By Fionnuala Murphy, International HIV/AIDS Alliance More than 70 countries around the world currently criminalise homosexuality, with punishments including life imprisonment, flogging and the death penalty. The last two years have brought a particularly virulent wave of criminalisation. Russia, Nigeria and Uganda have all introduced new laws which ban private and public expressions of homosexuality,…
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Our Chair Claire Leigh’s speech to Lab14
I’m Claire Leigh, the Parliamentary Candidate for Tonbridge and Malling and the Chair of the Labour Campaign for International Development. As the most recent socialist society to affiliate to the Labour Party, LCID exists to keep international development high on the party’s agenda, and internationalism at the heart of our Labour values. International development is…
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Join LCID at Labour Party Conference
Rally for Internationalism Tuesday 23rd September, 7.45-9pm The Charter Gallery, Manchester Central Come and hear speakers from across the Labour and trade union movement give short speeches at our informal rally – outlining their visions of how a future Labour government can once again play a leading role in the fight against global poverty and…
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Development Charity Fringe Listings
Interested in development at #Lab14? Then take a look at these fringe events on development that our friends in the charity sector are putting on. . Please note: All events will take place in Bond’s ‘Development Hub‘ in within the Charter Gallery in the main Manchester Central conference centre – unless otherwise stated. . Don’t forget…
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The choice – quotes from the aid bill debate on Friday speak for themselves
“A friend of mine was at an international conference in Africa and she was making the point, which perhaps we would all have been tempted to make, that aid is not about pity; it is about empathy. It is not just about having sympathy for people; it is about helping people, because we think the…
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