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World AIDS Day
The good news first. We can cautiously say that 2010 has been a year of better news for those working on the HIV and AIDS epidemic. The latest UNAIDS report tells us ‘new HIV infections have fallen by nearly 20% in the last 10 years, Aids-related deaths are down by nearly 20% in the last five…
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A plea from the DRC
There is a piece over on Progress written by two Congolese women who now live in London and run the It Must Stop campaign. It documents the many horrifying failings in the Democratic Republic of Congo that have existed for decades. The authors rightly remind us that a whole nation can throw up its arms…
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Harriet Harman on the G20
There is a great blog over on Progress by Harriet Harman on the G20 negotiations that have been happening and how the coalition government should be approaching aid for developing nations. The G20 are currently meeting in Seoul giving the international community a chance to put tackling global poverty firmly at the top of the…
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Mitchell in bother
The Guardian has an article on its website about Andrew Mitchell stepping in to help have a trading ban lifted in Ghana, despite it being outside his remit. The firm had been banned from trading for allegedly smuggling cocoa. This would appear to be evidence that the International Development Secretary has overstepped the mark. It…
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Read Harriet Harman’s letter to LCID’s members
When she was appointed Shadow International Development Secretary, we wrote to Harriet Harman, congratulating her on her new brief and telling her about our work. Harriet’s been back in touch with a letter addressed to all LCID’s members, making it her passion for development clear. We are really excited about building on the great foundations…
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Great article on financial transactions tax
Very quick post to let you know about a great article on The Guardian website, in case you haven’t seen it. Ben Phillips writes about the financial transaction tax and the discussions that are due to take place about it at the upcoming G20 summit. He also talks about the need for campaigners to keep…
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Labour Campaign for International Development’s response to the CSR and SDSR.
The commitment to ring fence UK aid and reach 0.7 per cent of GDP is welcome, and a testament to the hard work of many Labour MPs in the last Government and anti-poverty campaigners in making this a consensus issue in the eyes of the British public. However, as with the rest of the Comprehensive…
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Harriet Harman responds to the Comprehensive Spending Review
Statement from Harriet Harman, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, on the Comprehensive Spending Review: “We welcome the government’s commitment to continue with Labour’s target of 0.7% of GNI on overseas aid from 2013 but freezing the percentage of aid for two years will inevitably beg the question about whether they will deliver…
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Development charities speak out over diverting aid to war zones
The Guardian is carrying a strong piece today, highlighting the anger from several development charities over aid spending, including Save the Children and Oxfam. The Government’s plans militarise aid spending and would lead to many very poor, but stable, countries losing out on aid. We at LCID believe this is dangerous. We will be releasing…
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Check out all our #BAD10 blogs from today
Today was Blog Action Day, focusing on water. To mark this day, four members of LCID have blogged on several sites. Rather than having you trawling through the internet, we’ve got links to all four of them here. So check them out! First off, Steve Cockburn discusses the right to water and how the Tories…
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