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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.
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 […]
More than 140 former heads of state and Nobel laureates call on candidates for German chancellor to waive intellectual property rules for COVID vaccines 14 September 2021
More than 140 former heads of state and government and Nobel laureates today called on the candidates to be the next German chancellor Annalena Baerbock, Olaf Scholz, and Armin Laschet […]
Large booster jab programme “abhorrent” while low-income countries struggle to access vaccines10 September 2021
We shouldn’t have to choose between vaccinating rich and poor countries, but we’ve handed exclusive patents on these publicly funded vaccines to a handful of companies
“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 […]
Daniel Willis
There is no climate justice without debt justice
Although it might not seem obvious, the global debt system and climate change and 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 […]
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 […]
