Blogs

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 […]

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Briefing: 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 […]

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Exporting 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 […]

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Democratic 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 […]

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Five 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.

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Lydian 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 […]

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Briefing 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 

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Biwater v Tanzania

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 9 May 2019
Campaigns: Trade

British water firm sues Tanzania for ending a failed water contract

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Chevron vs Ecuador

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 9 May 2019
Campaigns: Trade

US oil firm sued Ecuador after compensaton ordered for devastating Amazon oil spill.

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ISDS 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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