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Tackling climate change promotes sustainable development; 2015 Paris Climate Conference – COP21
By Seb Dance, MEP It is rare that you are able to work on two areas that not only interest you but which overlap. I am fortunate enough in the European Parliament to sit on both the Development and Environment Committees. The two are of course intrinsically linked, and this link is no more important…
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Elections and AGM 2016 – Get Involved
Elections for the LCID Executive Committee will take place between the 1st-14th December this year. All LCID members are eligible (and strongly encouraged) to stand. Nominations are now open We are opening nominations today and inviting members to put themselves forward for election. We are keen for anyone who is interest to stand, but you need to…
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Kate Osamor MP reports back from Zambia on why the UK should be proud of our aid budget
Kate Osamor, Labour & Co-operative MP for Edmonton and PPS to Jeremy Corbyn, visited Zambia this summer with RESULTS UK I was incredibly honoured to be elected to Parliament this May, and I’m determined to fight for the best deal for my constituents under this Conservative Government. My constituency, Edmonton in North London, is a…
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Turning a mirror – Understanding China’s role as an emerging development actor
By Jessica Toale China’s role as an emerging development actor has come under much scrutiny in recent years. We have all heard stories of exploitative working practices, unfair natural resources deals, land grabbing and white elephant projects. These all feed a narrative of an aggressive and neo-colonial China out to upset the existing global order.…
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Global Goals – a road map to ending poverty and tackling inequality and climate change
by Lord Jack McConnell, LCID Vice-President The Labour Party has internationalism in our core. We have always wanted a world free from want, and where people can live at peace with the planet, and each other. Yesterday in New York, the new Global Goals were agreed: a road map to end extreme poverty and to…
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Join us for our Rally for International Development at Labour Party Conference
Dear LCID members, We hope you can join us for our Rally for International Development at this year’s party conference, which we are hosting in partnership with BOND with Beyond2015. We have a fantastic line-up of speakers including Hilary Benn MP, Stephen Twigg MP, Seb Dance MEP and Linda McAvan MEP. The event will be an…
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Corbyn – what do we know about him and does that matter to international development?
First published by BOND, 16 SEPTEMBER 2015 By Ciarán Norris Corbyn’s shadow cabinet: old consensus or new divide? You won’t have been able to pick up a paper, turn on the TV, or open Twitter since the weekend without noticing the seismic shift in British politics: Labour’s most rebellious backbench MP has become its leader. So,…
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HELP IS COMING
Crowded House’s single, Help Is Coming, has been re-released and profits will be donated to Save The Children to help its vital work in Syria and Europe where the refugees are fleeing to escape the conflict. The money will help thousands of children in need of food, safe water, medicine, shelter and psychological support. It can…
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Cut overseas aid and you force even more people into the boats
By Gordon Brown First posted by The Guardian, 9th September 2015 If the tiny, lifeless body of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old boy whose body washed on to a beach in Turkey, has finally shamed Europe into offering sanctuary to Syrian refugees, just what will it take to shock the entire world into dealing with a…
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Syrian refugee crisis: Lebanon steps up while Britain fails to engage
By Mary Creagh First published in The Guardian, 8th September I am in Lebanon with Birmingham-based charity Islamic Relief to see the frontline of the refugee crisis. All summer there have been daily reminders of the greatest refugee crisis since the second world war. The harrowing picture of Syrian toddler Alan al-Kurdi, lying lifeless on…
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