Tag: dfid
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Stars launch Global Poverty Promise
Davina McCall, Mariella Frostrup, Annie Lennox, Richard Wilson and Meera Syal are among the big names launching a new poverty campaign today, the fifth anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s Make Poverty History speech in Trafalgar Square. In a campaign video released today – shown for the first time at LCID’s launch on Monday – the celebrities
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What is a “socialist Anne Robinson with pom-poms” when it’s at home?
Review of our Launch for Progress Online by LCID exec member and anti-poverty campaigner Steve Cockburn With a deficit to reduce and public services to protect, why should progressives care about Labour’s commitment to increase aid and work to end global poverty? The answer at the launch of the Labour Campaign for International Development last
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Douglas Alexander speaks at Labour Campaign for International Development Launch
Last night, the Labour Campaign for International Development officially launched at an event at the House of Commons, with an impressive audience of politicians, the international development sector and party activists. There was only room to stand as Secretary of State Douglas Alexander began his keynote speech, with Minister Mike Foster also taking questions and
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Why have The Times got the knives out for DfID?
This post was first posted on Left Foot Forward. Following on from The Times’s coverage of the International Policy Network’s allegations against DfID’s funding of the TUC – allegations that Left Foot Forward showed to be unfounded – they have once again fuelled the aid sceptics’ fire with several leading articles in their paper today.
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Allegations on TUC’s development role without foundation
Posted on Left Foot Forward on Friday A slew of recent articles seek to undermine the important and justifiable role for the Trades Union Congress in delivering development policy. On Monday, The Times reported that “The Government is giving the Trades Union Congress millions of pounds from its foreign aid budget to pay for the education
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DFID supporting unions to make a difference in the world, not corrupt backhanders
Reading Carl Mortished’s article in the Times on Monday you’d think that they had discovered a corrupt and secret way for the Labour Party to pass money to the unions. But then on closer inspection you realize that all the information is in fact clearly and transparently available on the TUC and DFID websites. The Times
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The Tories announce their Afghanistan strategy, but there’s a lot left unanswered
In this article in The Times, William Hague and George Osborne are credited with announcing a new Tory policy for the development of Afghanistan. Their aim, so they say, is to draw on the military to carry out “quick impact aid work and infrastructure projects in the aftermath of fighting.” Surely this sounds like a
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Have a break, have a [Fairtrade] Kit Kat
Great news today as Kit Kat, Britain’s biggest selling chocolate biscuit, will go Fairtrade from January. About 1 billion Kit Kats are sold every year in the UK and the switch is set to guarantee a better deal for more than 6,000 Ivorian cocoa farmers. Gareth Thomas MP, our Trade & Development Minister said: “I
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