Tag: international development
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The rise and fall of human rights
Stephen Tunstall, Palestine & Israel Programme Manager for Embrace the Middle East blogs about why Labour should adopt a humans rights focused foreign policy @SCTunstall Tony Blair’s famous 1999 Chicago speech set out a foreign policy doctrine to guide Britain through the twenty first century. It makes for a fascinating read in hindsight. Predicting that
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It’s essential for our NHS that we end the era of the British tax haven
This article first appeared on LabourList on Tuesday 1 November By Mike Kane, Shadow Minister for International Development and Labour MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East – @MikeKaneMP Theresa May has pledged a crackdown on tax havens. She should start by cleaning up our own backyard – the secretive network of UK-linked tax havens like the
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Tories plot to divert aid away from world’s poorest
By Sam Rusthworth, LCID’s Membership & CLP Relations Officer – @SamJRushworth There were gasps and raised eyebrows when Theresa May appointed Priti Patel as Minister for International Development in her new right-wing cabinet, but Patel’s first appearance before MPs last week suggests anyone concerned about global poverty is right to be worried. In July, while
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Owen Smith MP signs LCID pledge for Leadership candidates
As with previous leadership contests in 2010 and 2015, LCID will not be endorsing a leadership candidate in the current contest. However we have asked candidates to sign the International pledge for 2016 Leadership candidates. We are delighted that Owen Smith MP has signed the pledge and agreed to uphold the principles it contains. We
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David Miliband makes the case for Britain in Europe
Today in London David Miliband, the former Foreign Secretary and current CEO of International Rescue Committee, delivered a speech making the case for the UK to remain in Europe, including why the EU matters for international development. Some of his comments are reproduced below: At the heart of our British success story in
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On the 22nd Anniversary of the Genocide, Rwanda is defying both global expectations and wishes
By Claire Leigh – Consultant at UNDP, 2015 Labour Parliamentary Candidate and former Chair of LCID – @ClaireLeighLab It is almost frustrating to start every discussion on Rwanda by referencing the infamous genocide that took place there twenty two years ago. The country today is almost unrecognisable from the place that tore itself apart in 1994 at
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Why 2016 is the year to leap, not shuffle, towards gender equality
By Emily and Katie Berrington Despite being the year that the United States may be set to welcome its first female president; the first year that Saudi Arabia’s female residents will live under municipal governments that they were able to vote in; and the year that more than 90 countries answered the UN Women’s call
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Independence for Scotland would damage our ability to do good in the world
by Alastair Osborne, Scottish Officer for LCID When it comes to the debate over Scottish independence, we believe strongly that the return of a Labour Government in 2015 would provide the best opportunity for progressive post 2015 international development goals to be pursued and achieved. We do not feel this should be put at risk by
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David Morrissey says ‘Keep the Promise’
At the Gleneagles summit in 2005, the G8 countries made a promise: their aid budgets would be increased to 0.7% of their national income. Now, just 6 years later, there are already signs that some of those countries are failing to live up to their word. The Labour Party, with Harriet Harman at the helm
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Today is World Water Day
Today is World Water Day, and while two fifths of the world live without adequate sanitation and one in eight have no access to safe water, it marks an important day in the international development calendar. Clean water is key to development, not only to halt the staggering loss of life due to water-borne diseases,
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