Blogs

The UK is fuelling climate change and conflict in Mozambique
By: Ilham Rawoot and Anabela Lemos
Date: 27 February 2021
Campaigns: Aid, Climate
Despite pledges to stop financing fossil fuels overseas, the UK is putting $1 billion towards a major gas project in Mozambique. It is more than a decade since 75 trillion […]
Read moreHalf a billion in aid for private healthcare condemned by campaigners
Date: 25 January 2021
Campaigns: Aid
New research, published by Global Justice Now today, shows how half a billion pounds of UK public funds have been invested in private healthcare in the global south in the past […]
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A victory for aid scrutiny
By: Daniel Willis
Date: 17 December 2020
Campaigns: Aid
Plans by the Leader of the House of Commons to abolish the International Development Committee after Christmas have been shelved. But there is still a long way to go to protect the 0.7%.
Read moreAid cuts are a ‘betrayal’ of UK’s historic responsibility
Date: 25 November 2020
Campaigns: Aid
Reaction to the cuts to the UK aid budget, announced by the Chancellor today.
Read more£2.9bn cuts to aid budget are a choice, not a necessity
Date: 23 July 2020
Campaigns: Aid
Reacting to the news the UK government is to make £2.9 billion of cuts to the international aid budget this year [1], Daniel Willis, aid campaigner at Global Justice Now […]
Read more£2.9bn cuts to aid budget are a choice, not a necessity
Date: 23 July 2020
Campaigns: Aid
Reaction to the news that the UK government is to make £2.9 billion of cuts to the international aid budget this year.
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#StopAidForProfit – ten shocking corporate projects supported by UK aid
By: Daniel Willis
Date: 20 July 2020
Campaigns: Aid
Boris Johnson’s announcement that DfID will abolished later this year has left many in the development sector with more questions than answers. But if previous experiences of “tied aid” and spending by CDC Group are anything to go by, the future of aid will see more money being shovelled into corporate pockets.
Read moreThe future of aid after DfID: Shocking development projects supported by the UK
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 6 July 2020
Campaigns: Aid
With the government having recently announced plans to abolish the Department for International Development (DfID) and give control of UK aid policy to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), many […]
Read moreCampaigners condemn new £100m of UK aid for fossil fuels in Africa
Date: 30 June 2020
Campaigns: Aid
Campaign group Global Justice Now has condemned new revelations of the UK government putting aid money into fossil fuel projects overseas. Revelations in CDC Group’s annual report mean £668m of UK aid has financed fossil fuels overseas since Paris Agreement.
Read more‘Empire 2.0 here we come’ – reaction to DFID being scrapped
Date: 25 June 2020
Campaigns: Aid
Reacting to the news that the UK’s Department for International Development is to merge into the Foreign Office, Daniel Willis, campaign manager for Global Justice Now said: “This is a […]
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