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Reflections from #TheBigIF
by Kirsty McNeill, LCID Advisory Board Co-Chair The Enough Food for Everyone IF campaign held a rally in Hyde Park this weekend. Three things stood out as major highlights for me: 1) Wow. Getting 45,000 people to take any form of coordinated political action is an extraordinary achievement, particularly in the face of austerity, deep public scepticism about…
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Dr Livingstone, I presume?
19 March 2013 marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of David Livingstone. This explorer, writer, missionary, medic and anti-slavery campaigner rose from humble beginnings in a Lanarkshire tenement in Blantyre, to become described as “Africa’s first freedom fighter”. Is that description justified? Was he simply a man of his time or a man…
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Richard Darlington writes for New Statesman on why Cameron has two weeks to save the world
Richard Darlington writes for New Statesman on why Cameron has two weeks to save the world Richard Darlington, former Special Advisor and now Head of News at IPPR, examines the challenges facing David Cameron during the G8 and questions the impact of today’s BigIF summit in Hyde Park.
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Improving Child Nutrition is an Investment in the Future
Next Saturday 8th June the governments of the UK and Brazil will host an international pledging conference in London named ‘Nutrition for Growth’. It is the first ever summit on nutrition and is held in the build-up to the G8 meeting a week later. It is a welcome step that the global development community is…
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Ivan Lewis MP response to the UN High Level Panel’s Report on the Post-2015 Agenda
Ivan Lewis MP, Labour’s Shadow International Development Secretary, in response to the UN High Level Panel’s Report on the Post-2015 Agenda said: “I welcome many of the recommendations in the UN High Level panel’s report. Especially the objective to end extreme poverty by 2030 and the bringing together of the sustainability and poverty reduction…
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We have a once in a generation chance to tackle inequality. Cameron is letting his values stymie the debate
LCID Statement on the High Level Panel report on the Post-2015 agenda: The High Level Panel report sets no goal for reducing income inequality – and we know that Cameron fought against this consistently The failure to tackle inequality was one of the key failings of the last development goals The world’s 100 richest people…
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Oxfam calls for tougher laws on tax havens
Oxfam yesterday urged the Government to crack down on tax havens used by British citizens. The charity estimates that one third of the $18.5 trillion that is being held in tax havens is held in a British Overseas Territory or Crown Dependency. Oxfam suggests the money recouped following tougher laws on tax avoidance could be…
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Labour’s Post-2015 Vision: Equality 2030
Here is the full text from Ivan Lewis’s speech yesterday: Thank you for the introduction Ben and the Bond Beyond 2015 UK Group for hostingthis event and all of you for turning up this afternoon. When I made my speech at CAFOD in January I laid down some key elements of Labour’s vision for the…
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Judith Hart Remembered
On Friday 3 May, the Popinjay Hotel, Rosebank, in the Clyde Valley, was the venue for the 4th Judith Hart Memorial Lecture Dinner. This year the lecture was given by Rt. Hon Douglas Alexander MP, the Shadow Foreign Secretary. The first memorial lecture in 2007 was by Lord George Robertson, followed by the Rt. Hon Harriet Harman…
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LCID make a new friend at Progress Conference 2013
Members of the LCID Exec team were delighted to welcome Peter Mandelson to their stall at yesterday’s Progress Conference. The former Trade Minister (and Labour Party legend) spoke of the importance of international development on UK trade. The team had a really successful day, gathering lots of interest in the campaign and new…
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