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LCID Statement on House of Lords Committee Report
The Tory-dominated Economic Affairs Committee has made recommendations that would cost lives in developing countries and damage Britain’s credibility. Their recommendation to drop Britain’s aid promises would mean cuts to well-costed programmes based on reaching the 0.7% GNI target next year, such as putting 16 million children in school. Andrew Mitchell must now bring forward legislation on 0.7% in the next…
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Why has UK aid for water and sanitation fallen even as global aid has increased?
On World Water Day our Honorary Co-President Glenys Kinnock wrote for the Guardian’s Poverty Matters blog, taking the government to task for their poor record on water and sanitation; I have to express deep concern that: 1. The UK’s bilateral aid to the sector was less than 2% of total aid in 2010 (pdf); 2. The proportion…
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Think Again: Women, Jobs and International Development
A review of the LCID & SOAS Labour debate on ‘Gender, International Development & UK Aid’ by Charlie Samuda Economic development is as much about social justice as it is about the pounds and dollars that one country sends to another. Nowhere is this more relevant than in the debate about the role of gender in Britain’s overseas development…
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To invest in children’s future, we need to invest in water, says Tony Cunningham MP
by Tony Cunningham MP, Shadow Minister for International Development Just a couple of weeks before World Water Day, it was announced that the Millennium Development Goal target for halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water has been met. This is excellent news. The hard work of the international community and…
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LCID reaction to the 2012 Budget
LCID reaction to the 2012 Budget: The Lib Dems claimed this would be a ‘Robin Hood’ Budget. What a farce that proved to be. As Oxfam said in their reaction to the Budget, rather than taking yet more money from the poorest in our society the government should make those that caused the financial crisis…
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Budget 2012: The consequences of failing to hit the 0.7% aid target laid bare
By Richard Serunjogi, LCID’s BME Officer. First posted for Left Foot Forward In the past few weeks many commentators on ConservativeHome have called for cuts to the UK’s aid budget. In the run-up to the annual budget this type of speculation and rumour about government spending is hardly news. However, the analysis of what would happen…
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The Sahel Food Crisis Needs Urgent Humanitarian Support: Ivan Lewis for the Huffington Post
Shadow International Development Secretary Ivan Lewis MP writes for the Huffington Post on his recent trip to Chad with Oxfam and the urgent need for humanitarian support to stop the food crisis that is effecting the Sahel region in West Africa – 13 million people face food shortages this year that will leave them struggling to…
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Glenys Kinnock: Government’s ‘International Violence Against Women Champion’ Lynne Featherstone has “little grasp of the facts”
Our Honorary Co-President Glenys Kinnock letter in The Guardian on Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone’s poor performance as the UK Government’s International Violence Against Women Champion: Jane Martinson’s incisive interview of Lynne Featherstone (I have the powers of high-level nagging, 10 March) shows that the equalities minister has little grasp of the facts about what women need and have…
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Tony Cunningham MP: Fairtrade: An entrepreneurial, responsible private sector is key to sustainable growth
Tony Cunningham MP, shadow international development minister, write for Left Foot Forward At the beginning of Fairtrade Fortnight, which ended last week, I, along with other Labour MPs, had the opportunity to meet the human face of fair trade. We listened to Palestinian olive oil producers, and the managing director of Divine Chocolate, Sophi Tranchell, who spoke about the great advantages…
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Our article The Guardian’s Poverty Matters blog for International Women’s Day
In case you missed it, here is the article that our Honorary President, Baroness Glenys Kinnock and Jo Cox, Chair of Labour Women’s Network wrote for Guardian’s Poverty Matters blog to mark International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day 2012: Let’s make a commitment to education Women are still denied human rights, subject to violence and oppression, and make up less…
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