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UK-India trade deal poses threat to India’s farmers and pharma sector11 January 2022
Responding to the news that international trade secretary, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, is to launch trade talks with India on Wednesday, Jean Blaylock, trade campaigner at Global Justice Now said: “Any trade […]
Rich countries have received more vaccines in run-up to Christmas than African countries have all year24 December 2021
The EU, UK and US have received more doses in the last six weeks than African countries have received all year. Global rollout at speed of UK’s booster programme could […]
Aid sector and unions condemn launch of British International Investment20 December 2021
Development organisations and trade unions have published an open letter to the Foreigh Secretary calling for assurances that British International Investment (BII) will prioritise poverty reduction and improve transparency.
REACTION: The government brought new Covid restrictions on themselves, vaccine campaigners say9 December 2021
Responding to news of fresh coronavirus restrictions in England, Tim Bierley, pharma campaigner at Global Justice Now, said: “The government brought these restrictions on themselves by standing in the way […]
REACTION: Nicola Sturgeon announces support for Covid vaccine patent waiver7 December 2021
Reacting to today’s statement by Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in which she announced her support for a waiver of intellectual property rules on Covid-19 vaccines to allow production to […]
Omicron variant made $10 billion in a week for top Moderna and Pfizer shareholders7 December 2021
Moderna CEO personally made more than $800 million in week after variant announcement Companies “have made more than enough money from the pandemic”, campaigners say Big pharma executives and shareholders […]
Omicron variant: UK government created the conditions for variant to emerge26 November 2021
Reacting to news that the WHO will name B.1.1.529 the ‘Omicron variant’, Tim Bierley, pharma campaigner at Global Justice Now, said: “The UK has actively prevented low and middle-income countries […]
Aid revamp labelled: ‘Cold War throwback’25 November 2021
Responding to Liz Truss’ announcement that CDC Group will be revamped into the British International Investment today, Nick Dearden, Director of Global Justice Now said: “This money should be about […]
Human rights advocates eye legal action against UK, Canadian, German, and Norwegian governments over global COVID vaccine inequality25 November 2021
Coordinated legal efforts call on “recalcitrant” governments to support proposed waiver of COVID-related intellectual property monopolies at the WTO Human rights lawyers have threatened legal action against the German, Norwegian, […]
Ludovico Caminati Engström
On the streets of Glasgow – my COP26 highlights
Together with almost 20 activists from the Stirling group we joined three days of protests against the “Global North greenwash festival” as described by Greta Thunberg, often referred to as […]
Daniel Willis
Faulty finance and slow progress at COP26
Amidst a chaotic week and a bit of talks and pledges, the UK’s presidency of COP26 has so far frustrated civil society and failed to live up to global south […]
Nick Dearden
The climate justice movement is on the rise at COP26
I’ve been in Glasgow all week, and already one thing is clear to me: world leaders cannot ignore us any longer. We’ve shifted the dial on climate justice. While governments […]
Global Justice Now
The Verdict of The People’s Tribunal: People and Nature vs the UNFCCC
On 7 November 2021, in the framework of the Peoples’ Summit during the COP26 in Glasgow, the Jury of the Peoples and Nature found the UNFCCC guilty of failing to […]
Daniel Willis
The UK is a long way short of paying its ‘fair share’ of climate finance at COP26
Boris Johnson has called on rich countries to pledge more climate finance at COP26. But the UK is a long way short of paying its own fair share. At last […]
Global Justice Now
The good, the bad and the dangerous: What to expect from COP26
As world leaders prepare to descend on Glasgow, here’s Global Justice Now’s guide to the summit. Climate politics at COPs is complex and the stakes are high. After almost three […]
Meena Raman
COP26: A history of broken promises and shifting goalposts
Ever since the world agreed a fragile framework to tackle climate change in the 1990s, rich countries have been in denial about their responsibility for causing the problem, and what […]
Attac Network
Vaccine apartheid: We cannot allow global healthcare to be dictated by the market
Statement by the European ATTAC Network, which Global Justice Now is part of, ahead of a meeting of the World Trade Organisation’s intellectual property council. Vaccine apartheid shows that we […]
Dorothy Grace Guerrero
Vaccine apartheid, a strategy of social murder
The organisation of our economies has driven two of the biggest global crises the world faces: pandemics, of which Covid-19 will not be the last, and the climate and ecological […]
