Blogs
The horrible history of Big Pharma
Type: Reports
Date: 18 December 2020
Campaigns: Pharma
Why we can’t leave pharmaceutical corporations in the driving seat of the Covid-19 response
Any long-term solution to the deadly Covid-19 pandemic involves the discovery and equitable distribution of an effective vaccine and treatment options. Yet, across the world, governments are handing responsibility for Covid-19 solutions over to big pharmaceutical firms, who have a long track record of prioritising corporate profit over people’s health.
Read moreScotland’s place in the world: a manifesto for global solidarity
Type: Reports
Date: 17 December 2020
Campaigns: Trade
Our suggestions for the manifestos of the Scottish parties standing candidates in the Holyrood elections 2021
Read morePharma Trade Secrets: The truth about a trade deal with Trump
Type: Reports
Date: 26 November 2019
Campaigns: Pharma, Trade
The prices that our NHS will pay as a result of a US trade deal is under threat. Our chronically underfunded NHS is already struggling to afford spiraling medicine prices. […]
Read moreIn Whose Interest? The UK’s role in privatising education around the world
Type: Reports
Date: 16 April 2019
Campaigns: Aid
This report, published by Global Justice Now and the National Education Union, examines the problems with privatisation of school education around the world and the role of the Department for […]
Read moreThe People’s Prescription: Re-imagining health innovation to deliver public value
Type: Reports
Date: 15 October 2018
Campaigns: Pharma
Driven by profit rather than public health, the pharmaceutical sector is incentivised to set high prices and deliver short-term returns to shareholders, rather than focus on riskier, longer-term research which […]
Read moreThe Conflict, Stability and Security Fund: Diverting aid and undermining human rights
Type: Reports
Date: 4 December 2017
Campaigns: Aid
The UK government’s Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) raises all kinds of questions about the future of UK aid, the nature of the UK’s relations with states abusing human rights and the government’s openness with the public.
Read moreUpdate to Global Justice Now report, The privatisation of UK aid: How Adam Smith International is profiting from the aid budget
Type: Reports
Date: 13 November 2017
Campaigns: Aid
Latest accounts from Adam Smith International show the company’s profit margins continue to grow despite it having been centre of a scandal in which it was accused of exploiting documents leaked from DFID and attempting to falsify evidence to a parliamentary enquiry.
Read morePills and Profits: How drug companies make a killing out of public research
Type: Reports
Date: 20 October 2017
Campaigns: Pharma
UK taxpayers and patients worldwide are being denied the medicines they need, despite the public sector playing a pivotal role in the discovery of new medicines. The UK government is […]
Read moreHonest Accounts 2017 – How the world profits from Africa’s wealth
Type: Reports
Date: 24 May 2017
Campaigns: Aid
Much more wealth is leaving the world’s most impoverished continent than is entering it, according to new research into total financial flows into and out of Africa. The study finds […]
Read moreThe Privatisation of UK aid
Type: Reports
Date: 31 March 2016
Campaigns: Aid
After decades of work by campaigners and activists, in 2015 the UK enshrined in law a commitment to spend 0.7% of its national income on international aid to tackle poverty around the […]
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