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We are a democratic social justice organisation working as part of a global movement to challenge the powerful and create a more just and equal world. We mobilise people in the UK for change, and act in solidarity with those fighting injustice, particularly in the global south.
“It’s the global economy, stupid”: Campaigners react to IPCC climate report9 August 2021
Responding to the IPCC climate report, Global Justice Now says, “We need a radical economic overhaul to rapidly drive down emissions far sooner than 2050.”
MPs who backed aid cuts have ‘blood on their hands’, campaigners say20 July 2021
Responding to the government’s victory on the aid cuts vote by 333 votes to 298, Daniel Willis, policy and campaigns manager at Global Justice Now, said: “When the inevitable death […]
Freedom day: UK “shooting ourselves in the foot” by upholding vaccine patents19 July 2021
Just 1% of people in low-income countries have received a Covid-19 vaccine, risking virus mutations that could lead to further lockdowns Campaigners and scientists have warned that upholding intellectual property […]
NHS at 73: Government’s global vaccination obstruction an “assault” on NHS founding principles5 July 2021
Vaccine equity campaigners have accused the government of “rejecting the values that make our NHS great” by “obstructing” efforts to vaccinate on the world on the 73rd anniversary of the […]
CPTPP would be “environmental vandalism” in year of COP26, campaigners warn22 June 2021
Trade and environmental campaigners have warned that ministers are “on a mission to drive down standards and hand over power to transnational corporations”, as the UK begins talks to join […]
G7 REACTION: Summit proves G7 “not fit for purpose”, campaigners say13 June 2021
Global Justice Now says leaders have “utterly failed to face up to the challenges facing the world” Group beams “break vaccine monopolies” onto Cornish cliffside Full resolution images (credit Jess […]
G7 vaccine donations will cover just 11% of world’s unvaccinated population11 June 2021
UK’s 100 million donated doses only enough for 1% of world’s unvaccinated population Intellectual property rules must be cleared away to really vaccinate the world, says Global Justice Now Vaccine […]
Scottish Parliament must not be spectators to deadly vaccine apartheid, charities say ahead of G7 meeting10 June 2021
The Scottish Parliament must urgently signal its strong support for the ending of pharmaceutical monopolies which are artificially limiting vaccine supply to low income countries, a coalition of Scottish charities […]
Scottish farmers and environmental targets could be ‘sacrificial lambs’ in Australia trade deal22 May 2021
The UK government could “throw agriculture and the environment under the bus” in an Australian trade deal, campaigners have warned. Global Justice Now, which campaigns on trade rules, has warned […]
Jane Herbstritt
Banks in Scotland must cancel Zambia’s debt
Imagine your country was in such dire financial straits that instead of funding vital healthcare and vaccines for you and fellow citizens during this pandemic, your government was forced to […]
Dorothy Grace Guerrero
100 days before COP26: We need to see transformative solutions this November
100 days from now, the central point of climate politics will be Glasgow as the UK hosts the 26th Conference of Parties or COP26 under the UN Framework Convention on […]
Jonathan Stevenson
‘Blood is on their hands’ – how your MP voted on £4bn aid cuts
Last night MPs voted by 333 votes to 298 to approve the government’s cuts of around £4 billion per year to the UK aid budget for the foreseeable future. It […]
Joanna Ewart-James
Remembering long-standing global justice activist John Strange
The Southeast London group of Global Justice Now this month lost founding member John, to a heart attack. He was enduring treatment for cancer but remained active in the group […]
Jean Blaylock
Don’t let fossil fuel companies block climate action
When the world’s governments meet in Glasgow in November to discuss the climate crisis, the threat of legal action from big polluters in ‘corporate courts’ will lurk in the shadows. […]
Jean Blaylock
Five problems the UK-Australia trade deal poses for the climate
How we grow, transport and buy and sell food is one of the key things for restoring our climate as well as for tackling inequality and creating a fairer society. […]
Dorothy Grace Guerrero
The G7 summit 2021: Will this alliance of the rich and new allies solve our current crises?
The heads of states of the Group of 7 (G7), which includes the UK, USA, Canada, Japan, Germany, France and Italy, will have its annual summit this year at Carbis […]
Global Justice Now
AstraZeneca: We demand a People’s Vaccine
As AstraZeneca held its annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday, our youth network launched protests outside the company’s head office in Cambridge, its second largest UK site in Macclesfield and outside […]
Joe Karp-Sawey
Letter to the Prime Minister calling for the UK to support an intellectual property waiver on Covid-19 vaccines and treatments
Global Justice Now, STOPAIDS, and Just Treatment organised a letter from more than 400 academics, public health experts, civil society organisations, parliamentarians, unions, healthcare workers, and patients. The full text […]
