Tag: Ivan Lewis
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Welcome Jim Murphy and a sad goodbye to Ivan Lewis
We learnt yesterday what the much anticipated Shadow Cabinet reshuffle will mean for the international development brief. Ivan Lewis has been given the new role of shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, and Jim Murphy will move from defence to international development. LCID would like to take this opportunity to thank Ivan for all that he’s
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Speech to Labour Party Annual Conference 2013 by Ivan Lewis MP
Ivan Lewis MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, speaking to Labour Party Annual Conference 2013 in Brighton, said:Conference, this is a historic year for our commitment to international development. And I want to start by saluting you. Without your campaigning, your passion and your values there is no way the United Kingdom
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Tessa Jowell and Ivan Lewis launches Early Years Petition at Labour Conference
Join us in supporting change for children! Today Ivan Lewis MP and I launched a petition calling on the UN Secretary General and UN Member States to recognise the vital importance of investing in a child’s earliest years. We know from experience and evidence in the UK that investing in a child’s earliest years
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A thank you from Ivan Lewis and Tessa Jowell
LCID were delighted to receive this video from MPs Ivan Lewis and Tessa Jowell, thanking us for our coverage of their Malawi trip. As well as boosting our ego, Ivan and Tessa took the opportunity to explain some of the things they had learnt about Early Years Provision during the trip. We’d
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Development isn’t just a feminist issue; it’s the frontline of feminism
“Development isn’t just a feminist issue; it’s the frontline of feminism”. So said Melanie Ward, Head of Advocacy at Action Aid, just one of the inspiring speakers at LCID and the Fabian Women Network’s event ‘Why Development is a Feminist Issue’ held in Parliament on Wednesday night. Joining Melanie on the panel were Ivan Lewis
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Ivan Lewis MP response to the UN High Level Panel’s Report on the Post-2015 Agenda
Ivan Lewis MP, Labour’s Shadow International Development Secretary, in response to the UN High Level Panel’s Report on the Post-2015 Agenda said: “I welcome many of the recommendations in the UN High Level panel’s report. Especially the objective to end extreme poverty by 2030 and the bringing together of the sustainability and poverty reduction
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Labour’s Post-2015 Vision: Equality 2030
Here is the full text from Ivan Lewis’s speech yesterday: Thank you for the introduction Ben and the Bond Beyond 2015 UK Group for hostingthis event and all of you for turning up this afternoon. When I made my speech at CAFOD in January I laid down some key elements of Labour’s vision for the
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Ivan Lewis: ‘Justine Greening has some serious questions to answer’
Ivan Lewis MP, Shadow International Development Secretary, responding to Justine Greening’s claim that the decision to end DfID’s bilateral aid programme to South Africa was agreed by the South African government, said: “Justine Greening has serious questions to answer – her claim that her decision was made with the agreement of her South African
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Global injustice of child malnutrition must be tackled
Responding to the launch of UNICEF’s global Child Nutrition Report, Ivan Lewis MP, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, has said: UNICEF’s report demonstrates the vital link between the first 1000 days of a child’s life and breaking the cycle of poverty. It is deplorable that in this day and age 2.3 million
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Response from Ivan Lewis MP on Government announcement on Pakistan aid
Ivan Lewis MP, Labour’s Shadow International Development Secretary, responding to the findings in the International Development Select Committee’s report on aid to Pakistan, said: “The International Development Select Committee are right to make the link between Pakistan’s tax system and UK aid. “Hard pressed British taxpayers have a right to expect that alongside
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