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Members Reception: Tomorrow, 7pm
Please join us for this year’s LCID Annual Members Reception on Tuesday 16th July in The Jubilee Room, Westminster Hall, Houses of Parliament. The reception will begin at 7pm. Our reception is a thank you to our members. If you are not a member, please join on the door or online at LCID.org.uk/join. Speaking at the event will be Labour’s Shadow International…
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Development isn’t just a feminist issue; it’s the frontline of feminism
“Development isn’t just a feminist issue; it’s the frontline of feminism”. So said Melanie Ward, Head of Advocacy at Action Aid, just one of the inspiring speakers at LCID and the Fabian Women Network’s event ‘Why Development is a Feminist Issue’ held in Parliament on Wednesday night. Joining Melanie on the panel were Ivan Lewis…
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ODI – G8 on tax: More a first step than a giant leap
New ODI Director Kevin Watkins reviews the G8 on tax: If the G8 can’t agree to act decisively on a problem that is exposing some of the world’s poorest countries to plunder through dubious extractive industry dealings, what hope is there that its members will be listened to by China, Australia and Brazil in the G20? Read…
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Has anyone else woken up this morning with a G8 hangover?
by Richard Darlington, former Special Advisor to Secretary of State for International Development Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP Has anyone else woken up this morning with a G8 hang-over? Maybe it’s just me? Maybe I drank too much of the Kool-aid but weren’t we expecting a bit more than this? The Guardian’s Larry Elliott has catalogued the G8 leader’s betrayal…
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G8 Summit: Gordon Brown worked harder than David Cameron – and at the G8, it shows
In today’s Telegraph, Kirsty McNeill, LCID Advisory Board Co-Chair, contrasts the Cameron’s weak efforts at this year’s G8 with the achievements of Blair and Brown at previous summits: Since the UK last hosted the G8 in 2005, the keys to Downing Street have changed hands twice – once to an occupant who was in his…
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Is development a feminist issue? Parliamentary event: 3rd July
The short answer is yes. Women are half of the world’s population, yet make up 70% of the world’s poor. Girls are more than 70% of the 125 million children not in school, and make up two thirds of the world’s illiterate people. Pregnancy and childbirth killed 287,000 women in 2010, and fewer than half…
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Why the Enough Food If rally tells us public support for international development is strong
Saturday’s Big IF rally brought together some 45,000 people in Hyde Park to call on G8 leaders to take action on global hunger. This achievement is all the more impressive when we consider how disillusioned the public are with politicians, and – more broadly – with the ability of the current political system to deliver…
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David Cameron must use the G8 summit to forge a global consensus to fight tax evasion, says Baroness Kinnock
David Cameron must use the G8 summit to forge a global consensus to fight tax evasion, says Baroness Kinnock Wales Online has reported that our Honourary Co-President Baroness Glenys Kinnock has called on David Cameron to use the G8 summit to crack down on tax avoidance. Click the link to read the full article.
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Climate related displacement is threatening development. We must act now to prevent future harm
Development has many enemies. Corruption, poor governance and general disinterest all inhibit progress. Displacement, however, is often the biggest enemy of all. When communities are displaced, they abandon their homes, schools and livelihoods and are forced to embrace an uncertain future. It is as though time races backward and then stands awfully still. When man-made…
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To combat tax avoidance, tough talk is not enough
To combat tax avoidance, tough talk is not enough The prime minister has given us plenty of tough talk about cracking down on tax avoidance. Whether he can deliver a concrete agreement will be a crucial test of his leadership. In 2005, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown emerged from the Gleneagles summit with a concrete…
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