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Millions of pounds of UK aid has been spent on profit-making private schools. Why?

Ed Lewis

19 April 2019
Aid

What do you think we should be spending the UK’s international aid budget on? Vaccines? Dealing with climate change? Helping countries close tax loopholes?

I’m guessing you didn’t say profit-making private schools. But unfortunately, that’s exactly what the UK government has been doing.

Jallianwala Bagh was an atrocity of Empire. But the wrong kind of apology is not worth having

Radhika Patel

11 April 2019
General

On 13 April 1919, tens of thousands of Indians gathered at Jallianwala Bagh, a square in Amritsar, Punjab. They were there to celebrate a religious festival and peacefully protest against new laws imposed by the British banning freedom of assembly and protest, laws they had introduced in many parts of India in fear of an increasingly unified movement for independence.

Is the UK prepared for a Super China and its global New Silk Road?

Dorothy Grace Guerrero
Dorothy Grace Guerrero

09 April 2019
General

For the first time since the European Union (EU) and China forged the EU-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in 2003, Brussels has adopted a shift in its approach towards what is currently the world’s second-biggest economy.

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In Whose Interest? The UK’s role in privatising education around the world

Aid

A new report from Global Justice Now and the National Education Union lays out the UK Department for International Development’s policies and programmes that are contributing to a privatisation agenda.

Aid watchdog brands DFID private arm ‘unsatisfactory’ – reaction

Aid

Global Justice Now today said the UK government’s international development strategy was “hell bent on pushing aid money into financial markets regardless of the consequences”, following the release of a damning report by independent aid watchdog ICAI - the Independent Commission for Aid Impact.

Government defeated in Lords over meaningful vote on future trade deals

Trade justice

Trade justice campaigners have welcomed the government's defeat over Amendment 12 to the Trade Bill in the House of Lords. A cross-party amendment to give parliament the power to hold the government to account for its trade policy was passed by 215 votes to 168.