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Poverty is Political
First published on LabourList. The launch of the Enough Food IF campaign by a wide spectrum of British NGOs is to be warmly welcomed. The demands of the campaign, if met, would transform the lives of people around the world who currently suffer poverty, hunger, malnutrition and the appalling diseases that often come with them. In his speech to…
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It’s politics that will deliver a successful G8
First published on Labour List Eight years ago Tony Blair used his Davos visit to lay out the UK’s agenda for the G8 Presidency. He proposed a doubling of aid and 100% debt cancellation for the poorest countries, in order to mobilise resources for the Millennium Development Goals. At the Gleneagles summit six months later the…
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The post-2015 Panel: An unenviable task
First published on Labour List The 27 eminent persons gathering in Monrovia this week to discuss what should replace the current set of Millennium Development Goals have a prodigiously difficult task ahead of them. The process to agree the original MDGs was contentious enough, but the ‘High Level Panel’ of world leaders selected by Ban Ki-Moon to help set…
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A critical look at Justine Greening’s uncritical faith in private sector development
Justine Greening’s speech to the ONE campaign yesterday was a ramble through her brief, and some of it was decent stuff. I think she was right to suspend aid to Rwanda, for instance, although President Kagame’s regime has a much longer charge sheet than the military intervention in DRC that precipitated the decision. The commitment…
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Ivan Lewis MP: Labour’s Post-2015 Vision
A radical and progressive post 2015 framework will require global civil society to galvanise public opinion across the world. As we saw with the historic Make Poverty History campaign it is only when you have a coming together of massive public commitment and pressure together with political will that radical change becomes possible. And now…
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Ivan Lewis MP on the new charity campaign on hunger
In response to today’s launch of the NGOs joint campaign on hunger – IF – Shadow Secretary of State for International Development Ivan Lewis MP said: It is beyond belief or justification that in the twenty-first century one billion people go to bed hungry every night. That’s why Labour in government trebled international aid to…
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LCID Election Results 2012
Thank you to everyone that voted in our first elections. Thank you also to the brilliant 23 individuals who put themselves forward and stood to be members of our National Executive Committee. The results, ratified by today’s AGM, are as follows: ELECTED: David Taylor 79 James Anthony 61 Claire Leigh 58 Tom Baker 50 Charlie Samuda…
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Osbornomics mean the UK aid budget is £4.25 billion less than it should have been
Today’s Autumn Statement means that the UK aid budget is £4.25 billion less than expected since the 2010 election. Whilst the Conservatives’ misguided austerity drive is hurting hard working families up and down the country, this government had at least claimed that they would not be balancing the books on the back of the world’s poorest people.…
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World Toilet Day
Today is World Toilet Day. Across the world, 1 in 3 women risk shame, disease, harassment and even attack because they have nowhere safe to go to the toilet. That’s 1.25 billion women – daughters, sisters, mothers, grandmothers. Our Honorary Co-President Glenys Kinnock has written a joint article for the Huffington Post – read it here. And…
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LCID Statement on UK aid to India
First published on Left Foot Forward The decision on Friday to withdraw UK aid to India beyond 2015 reveals a Secretary of State for International Development who is more concerned with the whims of her own MPs and the right-wing press than the wants of one third of the world’s poorest people. It once again highlights the weak…
Labour Campaign for International Development 