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Mexico meeting on effective development cooperation: Flash in the pan or slow burner?
By Claire Leigh, Chair of the Labour Campaign for International Development At a meeting in Busan, Korea in 2011 the international development community met to discuss how to improve aid effectiveness. The major outcome of that meeting was the establishment of ‘The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation’, a broad collection of donors, international organisations,…
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Jim Murphy has set out an ambitious (and Labour) vision for development
Claire Leigh, Chair of the Labour Campaign for International Development Since its earliest days Labour has been an internationalist party and proud of it, too. From Keir Hardy and Harold Wilson to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, those who shaped Labour’s vision in the 20th and early 21st Century regarded the fight against poverty overseas…
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Sunday Mail and Jim Murphy MP investigate the Qatar construction industry ahead of FIFA World Cup 2022
Inside the Qatar 2022 World Cup camps: “The treatment of migrant workers is no longer the ugly secret of the beautiful game – we know the truth and football has to act.” says Jim Murphy.
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DFID under Labour – Development and Power
Jim Murphy, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, speech at the ONE Campaign Good afternoon, and thank you to the ONE Campaign for hosting today. The ONE Campaign, is an organisation set up to change the world as it is, something that in the last decade you and others have worked tirelessly to do. I’m here…
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Tuberculosis in Cambodia: Finding new ways to combat one of the world’s oldest diseases
Nic Dakin MP for Scunthorpe County The stench filled our nostrils and assaulted our taste. I treaded carefully on top of wooden slats that threatened to give way to a stew of green and brown water. All around me children squeezed past me, easily finding footing on the narrow wooden structures that create walkways in…
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LCID reports from Scottish Labour Party Conference
LCID Scottish Officer Alastair Osborne sent this report from the Scottish Labour Party Conference. The LCID Fringe Meeting at the Scottish Labour Party Conference in Perth (21 March) was well attended and a great success. The main focus was the Football4Africa event with delegates and visitors asked to bring along a football strip of their…
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Labour European Election Fundraiser on 1st April
Labour needs a strong voice in Europe, not least to defend the work the EU does on international development. To show your support, attend the Labour London fundraiser for the European Election. The evening offers the opportunity to meet the London Labour Candidates, and Glenys Kinnock, Labour Party Member of the European Parliament from 1994…
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LCID stands #WithSyria
The British public can send strong message to the UK Government that this year must be the last one of the conflict. The war in Syria will have been raging for three years this Saturday, March 15. The date marks the third anniversary of the start of the ongoing conflict. Over the past three years,…
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New research on Twitter in Africa: what does it mean for development?
Laura Kyrke-Smith, LCID’s CLP & PPC Outreach Officer and Director at Portland It has become a cliché to say that new communications technologies and platforms are bringing huge change to countries across Africa. And whether it is DFID working with mobile phone companies to inform young people about nutrition, or the Gates Foundation working with smallholder farmers to…
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Can you dig out an old football top for Africa? Football4Africa at Scottish Conference
Everyone attending the Scottish Labour Party Conference in Perth later this month has been asked by Shadow Secretary of State, Jim Murphy, to bring along a football top for Africa. Football4Africa collect old football kits – of any size – and send them to countries like Uganda, Malawi and Burkina Faso to those who’ll wear…
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