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Global sacrifice zones and why ‘we’ are not in this together

Hiba Ahmad
Hiba Ahmad, Global Justice Now

22 October 2018
Youth

This September, I had the pleasure of attending The World Transformed. All the talks and workshops I attended left me in awe of the strength, beauty, and resolve found in left-wing movements in the UK and beyond, but there was one event which really struck a chord with me.

I was given 3 minutes to tell Asian and European leaders why we need profound change

Dorothy Grace Guerrero
Dorothy Grace Guerrero

19 October 2018
General

At the Asia-Europe Meeting 12 of national leaders in Brussels on 18 October 2018, civil society was given 3 minutes to present the outcomes of the 12th Asia-Europe People's Forum (AEPF), which took place in Ghent at the start of this month.

We need the people's prescription to fix pharma

Radhika Patel

19 October 2018
Pharma

Our new report ‘The people’s prescription: Re-imagining health innovation to deliver public value’ reveals how pharmaceutical companies not only charge unaffordable prices for medicines, they are also not delivering the drugs we need. It’s a scandal of our time but there are alternatives to a system that puts profits above public need. 

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69 of the richest 100 entities on the planet are corporations, not governments, figures show

General
  • 157 of top 200 economic entities by revenue are corporations not countries
  • Top 10 corporate revenues exceed $3 trillion
  • British government urged to support Binding Treaty to hold corporations to account at UN in Geneva this week

The health innovation system is ‘broken’ and failing patients

Pharma

NHS patients are being let down by a global health innovation system which fails to deliver the treatments they need at prices that government can afford, according to a new report led by Professor Mariana Mazzucato, Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), in collaboration with STOPAIDS, Global Justice Now and Just Treatment.

MPs must stop 'informing' on constituents to Home Office, say migrant groups

Migration

15 leading organisations working with migrants have today written to the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, to express deep concern over hundreds of cases of MPs reporting their constituents to the Home Office for immigration crime.