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Ask your MP to support Anas Sarwar’s bill on transparency
Anas Sarwar (the MP for Glasgow Central) has tabled a “ten minute rule” bill on a Resource Extraction (Transparency & Reporting) Bill for 1 March in which he will give a ten minute speech in Parliament, followed by a short time for MPs to discuss the issue. By attending the debate MPs can help to…
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Keep the Promise
At our Reception in Parliament tonight, Rt Hon Harriet Harman and the Shadow DFID team will launch with the Labour Campaign for International Development the “Keep the .7/2013 promise” campaign. The Keep the .7/2013 Promise” campaign sends a clear message about the importance of meeting the UK’s commitment to spending .7% of national income on aid…
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Harriet Harman’s letter to Mitchell
Harriet Harman, Shadow International Development Secretary, has written to Andrew Mitchell about topical questions at International Development Questions in Parliament. You can read her letter below and we all look forward to this change being implemented in time for the next International Development Questions on 16 February Dear Andrew, I am writing to confirm your…
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Harriet Harman ups pressure on Tories over delay in implementing the Bribery Act
This article was written by Left Foot Forward Harriet Harman today stepped up the pressure on international development secretary Andrew Mitchell over the government’s delay in implementing the Bribery Act. The Act was originally due to come into law last October, was then put back to this April, and this week it was announced by the Ministry of Justice that it would…
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LCID Parliamentary Reception with Harriet Harman and Labour’s Shadow Team
Please come along and join LCID for an evening reception with the Labour Shadow International Development team The evening will include a speech from Rt Hon Harriet Harman MP, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, and will be a chance for you to meet and ask questions with the new Shadow team. It will…
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Harriet Harman on the Haiti earthquake one year on
Rt Hon Harriet Harman MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, has released the following statement on the first anniversary of the devastating Haiti earthquake. Following the earthquake in Haiti last year, the then Labour government provided £20 million of humanitarian support to Haiti, mostly for emergency interventions over the first six months.…
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A message from Gordon Brown
A message from Gordon Brown to LCID supporters Dear friends, Earlier this week I released a manifesto for Jobs + Justice (available here) The basic argument is encapsulated in the extract below: “The re-entry of the moral claim into economic policy—the revival of political economy—is what makes me confident that the argument for a global growth…
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Gordon Brown speaks to the GCE
By Richard Serunjogi, LCID BME Officer Gordon Brown last night argued that education is not only a basic human right but the key to economic growth and development. Mr Brown spoke at a Global Campaign for Education (GCE) event held at Bloomberg in London as part of the launch of his book, Beyond the Crash. We…
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TUC steps up its work to win ‘decent work’ for the world’s poorest people
By Gemma Tumelty, Programmes Officer, TUC The TUC has today published a new five year international development strategy, setting out how it plans to use members’ money and grants from the government and other organisations to raise wages and improve rights for some of the world’s poorest workers. Unions are already tackling poverty pay and…
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