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International Women’s Day: Six stories of women who’ve defended the environment and resisted corporate power

By: Radhika Patel
Date: 4 March 2020
Campaigns: Climate

This International Women’s Day we’re taking time to learn about some of the women who’ve been at the forefront of radical movements around the world. As the impact of climate […]

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From Serena Williams to women fighting dictatorship, here are the badass women who inspire us

By: Radhika Patel
Date: 3 March 2020

This International Women’s Day we asked the badass women at Global Justice Now to write a little something about the women who inspire them. From tennis players to actors and activists, here are the badass women who we love. 

Happy International Women’s day!

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What has Meghan Markle taught us? The UK needs to educate itself on racism and white privilege – here’s a start

By: Radhika Patel
Date: 14 January 2020

Today #whiteprivilege has been trending after a discussion on This Morning. Here’s a quick list of resources.

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Black History Month series: Abolishing the slave trade is a history that belongs to black rebels

By: Radhika Patel
Date: 1 October 2019

This Black History Month we’re focusing on black-led movements and resistance throughout history. How have they shaped our understanding of politics and activism, how do they continue to inspire social […]

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People-power helped Labour adopt policies to tackle big pharma’s grip over health

By: Radhika Patel
Date: 25 September 2019
Campaigns: Pharma

The Labour Party announced a range of policies to tackle this broken system in which pharma giants gain while patients lose out. It didn’t happen overnight. It’s taken people-power and resources to get the attention of politicians in Labour and other parties. 

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Modi’s colonial assault on Kashmir is like a 1947 revival. We must not stay silent

By: Radhika Patel
Date: 13 August 2019

Late night on Sunday 4 August, India-occupied Kashmir went into lockdown. Mobile, internet and TV connections were shut down, public meetings and rallies prohibited, schools and public institutions closed, and […]

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Jallianwala Bagh was an atrocity of Empire. But the wrong kind of apology is not worth having

By: Radhika Patel
Date: 11 April 2019

On 13 April 1919, tens of thousands of Indians gathered at Jallianwala Bagh, a square in Amritsar, Punjab. They were there to celebrate a religious festival and peacefully protest against […]

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Zwarte Piet: blackface is the colonial hangover that’s lasted too long

By: Radhika Patel
Date: 5 December 2018

I open the curtains to see fairy lights twinkling in my neighbour’s house. I open the kitchen door and see little crumbs on the table, traces of a mince pie […]

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It’s time to get privatised medicines out of our public health system

By: Radhika Patel
Date: 3 December 2018
Campaigns: Pharma

It’s good news for the NHS and patients. After years of big pharma having patent control over a medicine and hiking up its price extortionately, a drug that treats rheumatoid […]

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We need the people’s prescription to fix pharma

By: Radhika Patel
Date: 19 October 2018
Campaigns: 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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