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Taken, not earned: How monopolists drive the world’s power and wealth divide

Type: Reports
Date: 17 January 2024
Campaigns: Food, General, Pharma

The World Economic Forum says it is committed to improving the state of the world, but our new report in collaboration with the Balanced Economy Project, SOMO and LobbyControl into […]

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Report of the International Mission to Colombia

Type: Reports
Date: 15 August 2023
Campaigns: Trade

The fightback against investors suing Colombia In May 2023, we joined a delegation of 13 representatives from social and environmental justice organisations from eight countries in the Americas and Europe […]

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Bitter Pills: Why the NHS can’t swallow big pharma’s profiteering

Type: Reports
Date: 12 July 2023
Campaigns: Pharma

Big Pharma prices are breaking the NHS The strain on Britain’s National Health Service is plain for all to see. Serious under-investment, under-staffing, ill-conceived part-privatisation schemes and strategic failure in […]

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Making Polluters Pay: Estimates for corporate climate debt and reparations

Type: Reports
Date: 9 November 2022
Campaigns: Climate

The question of who pays for climate change is fundamental to climate justice. Within the UNFCCC, it has long been recognised and agreed that rich and lower income countries have […]

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Warning signs: The Prosperity Fund and the hijacking of UK aid

Type: Reports
Date: 7 June 2022
Campaigns: Aid

The UK government’s recently published international development strategy promises to use aid to support “free trade” and “free markets”, alongside promoting British expertise and building “economic partnerships” with countries through […]

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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. 

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Scotland’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

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Pharma 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. […]

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In 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 […]

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The 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 […]

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