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Nicola Sturgeon urged to speak out as ‘shameful’ stats reveal UK Government has delivered less than 10% of promised vaccine doses to low income countries21 October 2021
First Minister urged to protect lives globally and in Scotland by championing real solutions to vaccine crisis Pharmaceutical companies and rich nations are delivering just one in seven of the […]
UK has vaccinated more people than 132 countries combined12 October 2021
Global Justice Now to carry coffins down Whitehall to highlight global Covid-19 deaths as UK enters make-or-break talks aimed to boost global vaccinations The UK has vaccinated more people than […]
“Boris Johnson, waive vaccine patents” projected onto Tory conference 3 October 2021
Vaccine access campaigners have told Boris Johnson that 10,000 people are dying every day while he disrupts efforts to allow low and middle income countries to produce their own vaccines, […]
Over 10,000 people die every day the UK blocks Covid vaccine patent waiver2 October 2021
UK government urged not to “shame the UK for a generation” on first anniversary of vaccine patent waiver proposal ‘Day of shame’ planned across Europe ahead of crunch WTO meeting […]
Government in court over secret trade deal talks20 September 2021
Department for International Trade must not have a “get out of jail free card” to sign away rights in trade negotiations, says Global Justice Now The Department for International Trade […]
Fossil fuel companies claiming $18bn against government climate action in secret courts18 September 2021
Courts allow big polluters to sue governments into “a state of climate paralysis”, campaigners say Protestors to gather outside firms in London today, home to nearly all of top 30 […]
Zambia will spend 75 times Scottish aid financing on debt repayments17 September 2021
Zambia will spend 75 times Scottish aid financing on debt repayments. Global Justice Now and Jubilee Scotland protest outside Edinburgh banks. Zambia’s debt payments to private banks will render Scotland’s […]
UK government has “thrown its money down a Valneva-shaped hole” campaigners say14 September 2021
UK government has “thrown its money down a Valneva-shaped hole”, campaigners say Scottish factory should have been used to boost public research and manufacturing- not industry profits Campaigners have responded […]
Vaccine booster programme a “slap in the face” to global south14 September 2021
As WTO meets, world leaders pile pressure on Germany while UK eats up more vaccine doses Global Justice Now has called the government’s decision to offer a third vaccine 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 […]
Daniel Willis
There is no climate justice without debt justice
Although it might not seem obvious, the global debt system and climate change are inextricably linked, creating a vicious cycle of financial and ecological crises across the global south.
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 […]
