Blogs
Why we need an OPEC for critical mineral producing countries
By: Nick Dearden
Date: 21 August 2024
Campaigns: Trade
Ketakandriana Rafitoson, Executive Director of Publish What You Pay and Nick Dearden, Director of Global Justice Now, comment on the UN Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals meeting in […]
Read moreElection 2024: After Labour’s landslide, we must demand real change
By: Nick Dearden
Date: 5 July 2024
It’s worth taking a minute to celebrate today’s election result: after fourteen years, one of the most awful governments in living memory has been decisively rejected. From deporting people to […]
Read moreElection 2024: This is a time for bold, radical policies. We must demand them
By: Nick Dearden
Date: 24 May 2024
Campaigns: General
In November 2019, we warned that the election of a Conservative government under Boris Johnson would be a gigantic step backwards for everything we believe in. It was unprecedented for […]
Read moreWhat happens if there’s another pandemic?
By: Nick Dearden
Date: 29 April 2024
Campaigns: Pharma
Negotiations have resumed today in Geneva on the Pandemic Preparedness Treaty, the World Health Organisation’s effort to establish an international agreement for what happens if there’s another pandemic. The treaty […]
Read moreGaza: Arms embargo now
By: Nick Dearden
Date: 14 February 2024
Campaigns: General, Trade
Israel is on the brink of another major escalation in Gaza. Around 1.7 million Palestinians have fled to Rafah, in the far south of the Gaza Strip, to escape the […]
Read moreFrom cholera to coronavirus, medicine monopolies are making us sick
By: Nick Dearden
Date: 22 January 2024
Campaigns: Pharma
Our report, Taken, Not Earned, released this week in collaboration with Balanced Economy Project, SOMO and LobbyControl, reveals just how extreme monopoly power is, and how it drives the global wealth and power divide. Six […]
Read moreGaza: South Africa speaks for the world
By: Nick Dearden
Date: 12 January 2024
Campaigns: General
Yesterday South Africa took a most powerful act of international solidarity. In the face of the most grotesque military campaign in Gaza, South Africa is accusing Israel of genocide. Their […]
Read moreGaza: End the violence now
By: Nick Dearden
Date: 20 October 2023
Campaigns: General
Global Justice Now does not work on Palestine. No organisation can tackle every injustice in the world and we have left this issue to those who can give it the […]
Read moreThe age of aid is over. It’s time to challenge embedded rich country narratives
By: Nick Dearden
Date: 15 September 2023
The age of aid is over. Many organisations, like my own, ran well-intentioned campaigns in the 1970s and ‘80s for rich nations to commit to budgets aimed at wiping out […]
Read moreWe must confront extreme corporate power. Here’s why
By: Nick Dearden
Date: 6 March 2023
Campaigns: General
Challenging the excessive power of corporations has always been central to our work at Global Justice Now. In fact, the history of the modern corporation goes back several hundred years, […]
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