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Should the anti-homosexuality legislation in Uganda make the UK consider invoking greater conditions on aid?
Dr Purna Sen, Prospective 2015 parliamentary candidate for Brighton Pavilion and Deputy Director of the Institute of Public Affairs, LSE The past few months have seen several setbacks in the realisation of sexual rights in various parts of the world. From the Supreme Court in India upholding the penal code provision that criminalises same sex sexual…
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Uganda’s LGBT need our support – we must do all we can to assist them
Pamela Nash MP, PPS to Shadow Secretary of State for International Development and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on HIV and AIDS In recent weeks I have been watching the calendar, noting that President Museveni had until the 24th February to sign the Anti-Homosexuality Bill; hoping that sense would prevail and he would…
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Fairtrade Fortnight: Labour Councils can lead the UK’s public sector in supporting fair trade and union rights in developing countries
by Glenn Power, LCID member International Development can start in our town halls. Fairtrade fortnight is a good time to review some sobering facts – compared to best practice in Sweden and elsewhere British public sector organisations are sadly ineffective at supporting fair trade and decent working conditions in developing countries. So far only a…
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On UKIP & the Mail’s shameless ploy…
The recent floods in the South of England have helped UKIP and the Daily Mail set a debate raging across radio phone-ins about whether part of the UK’s aid budget should be used to fund the response. There are plenty of reasons why this is a bad idea but instead of rattling through them…
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A review of the Fabian One Nation in the World Paper
Last week the Fabian Society launched an excellent pamphlet exploring the values and strategy that could constitute Labour’s foreign policy. It is also good food for thought for the development community. Development and foreign policies will of course be made in the same context and informed by the same values. But this pamphlet demonstrates how…
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Huff Puffing Tories and Pro-poor growth: Can’t do it at home, won’t do it abroad.
At the most recent DFID question time in Parliament, Tory MP, Nick De Bois, put it to Justine Greening that “encouraging democracy among the people is wasted when the leaders seem not to wish to practise it”. Dictators around the world would be rubbing their hands with glee at such sentiments if they were not…
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Event: Eyewitness to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Feb 11th, 6.30pm)
Dear Friend of LCID, LCID is pleased to begin its 2014 events programme with a discussion on issues of human rights in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In Autumn last year LCID member Melanie Ward served as a Human Rights Observer in the West Bank. For 3 months she lived and worked in Hebron, one of the most tense areas…
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The biggest myths about development, according to Bill and Melinda Gates
Bill and Melinda Gates release their Annual Letter today. At a time when aid is getting no shortage of bad press, it is a refreshing reminder of just how much aid can achieve. If Bill and Melinda are proven right, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world by 2035. Or at…
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Invitation to TUC Debate, Thursday 23 January 2014, 6.00pm
The Missing Link? Trade unions and tackling poverty in the global south To coincide with the publication of a book entitled “The Global Development Crisis” by Ben Selwyn of Sussex University, in which he makes the case for ‘labour-centred development’, the TUC is sponsoring a debate on the evening of Thursday 23 January 2014 at…
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Happy New Year from LCID!
On behalf of the whole LCID executive committee, I’d like to wish all our supporters and members a Happy New Year! 2013 has been an incredible year for LCID, with a record number of blogs, tweets, events and members. The year was crowned in September by our formal affiliation to the Labour Party, a platform…
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