Blogs
Doing more harm than good: Why CDC must reform for people and planet
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 15 February 2020
Campaigns: Aid
This report details the failures of the government’s development bank, CDC, to invest in a just and responsible way. Despite a series of reforms and promises to change, CDC continues […]
Read moreBriefing: Making CDC work for people and planet
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 14 November 2019
Campaigns: Aid, Climate
This briefing highlights some of the major problems with the CDC and the projects it funds. We believe that these problems are not aberrations but are a product of the […]
Read moreExporting repression: How Britain is supplying surveillance technology to human-rights abusing countries
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 20 September 2019
Campaigns: Trade
By Mark Curtis and Matt Kennard The British government is continuing to approve the export of high-tech surveillance equipment and software of the type that is being used by states […]
Read moreDemocratic public ownership in the UK pharmaceutical sector
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 19 September 2019
Campaigns: Pharma
Working paper by Global Justice Now, Just Treatment and The Democracy Collaborative Today we have a public healthcare system that relies on privatised medicines (developed with public support) that are […]
Read moreFive reasons modern trade deals are terrible for the climate
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 22 August 2019
Campaigns: Climate, Trade
Any lasting and just solution to climate change must lie in changing the economic and political structures that bind us to a high carbon model. Modern, mega trade deals will further entrench this model and make it all but impossible to reverse. This briefing outlines the reasons why we have to stop these trade deals if we are to successfully stop climate change.
Read moreLydian v Armenia
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 26 July 2019
Campaigns: Trade
SUMMARY: Mining company threatened to sue when protestors blockaded a gold mine and government allowed the protest to go ahead STATUS: Starting AT STAKE: £2 billion DETAILS: Initial notification filed […]
Read moreBriefing Paper of the UK Working Group on the Binding UN Treaty on TNC
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 13 May 2019
Campaigns: Climate
The UK government must support the UN Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights process to put primacy of rights over corporate profits
Read moreBiwater v Tanzania
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 9 May 2019
Campaigns: Trade
British water firm sues Tanzania for ending a failed water contract
Read moreChevron vs Ecuador
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 9 May 2019
Campaigns: Trade
US oil firm sued Ecuador after compensaton ordered for devastating Amazon oil spill.
Read moreISDS files – Agro EcoEnergy v Tanzania
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 31 January 2019
Campaigns: Trade
Sugar plantation investor accused of a land grab is suing after the Tanzanian government took back the land title
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