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Stop the UK blocking global efforts for affordable medicines

Heidi Chow

21 May 2019

Pharma

This week in Geneva a resolution is being voted on which could help make drugs more affordable around the world.

Yet we’ve discovered that the UK government is trying to undermine the resolution at this week's World Health Assembly – and is even pushing for all references to “high prices” to be taken out. This is an outrage.

The great aid betrayal

Ed Lewis

17 May 2019

Aid

Last summer, Theresa May made headlines on a trip to Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, where she declared in the most bullish terms yet the government’s objectives for international aid. The Prime Minister said she was “unashamed” about ensuring that our aid spending “works for the UK”.

Stop Corporate Courts: The Virtual Edinburgh Tour

Jane Herbstritt

13 May 2019

Stop corporate courts

A tour of five local landmarks linking Edinburgh-based companies to the secretive corporate courts in trade deals

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New DFID chief must reverse hijacking of aid budget by corporate interests

Aid

Reaction to the appointment of Rory Stewart as International Development Secretary.

Scrutiny of trade deals is “anachronistic and inadequate”, Lords warn

Trade justice

Parliamentary processes on scrutiny of trade deals have today been branded as “anachronistic and inadequate” in a report released by the UK parliament’s Constitution Committee. The report on “Parliamentary Scrutiny of Treaties” is the sixth in a series of reports by parliamentary committees that have strongly criticised current parliamentary processes for agreeing trade deals.

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.

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