Tag: international development
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Trade Unions tackling AIDS
World Aids Day is an important time to stop and think, and an important moment to be open and honest, raise awareness and dispel the stigma of HIV/AIDS. I will always remember the first time I wore a red ribbon on the 1st December. I was at secondary school, and I didn’t think twice about
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Gordon Brown’s World AIDS Day message
The African Children’s Choir today made a stop off at Number 10 today to mark World AIDS Day…and were really really cool!! You can hear them by visiting http://africanchildrenschoir.com/ The event was hosted by Gordon Brown & Glenys Kinnock. Please have a look at the PM’s message for World AIDS Day below. “Over the last
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Talk tonight on Beyond Copenhagen with Douglas Alexander, Oxfam & Greenpeace
What: “Beyond Copenhagen” Talk by Compass When: 19:00 to 20:30, Tonight Where: Houses of Parliament Tonight there will be a talk by the Labour pressure group Compass on where next after the climate change talks in Copenhagen. Douglas Alexander & Oxfam’s Campaigns & Policy Director Phil Bloomer will be on the panel, so it should
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Douglas Alexander launches advent calendar
Douglas Alexander, Desmond Tutu & the Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu today launched the Church of England’s 2009 online Advent calendar. The online Advent calendar encourages people to take time out to slow down and consider your lifestyle (such as buying Fairtrade!) with daily challenges and thoughts. The website contains a range of reflections,
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Make 0.7% aid spending UK law
In 2005, due largely to campaigning by many of us as part of the Make Poverty History campaign, world leaders promised to increase aid spending to 0.7% of their Gross National Income. Labour is tripling our aid budget and is committed to reaching the target by 2013. Now we need to make that promise a
Labour Campaign for International Development 