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Liz Truss must release records of US-UK trade talks following drug prices 'pledge'

Trade justice

Minister pledges to ‘walk away’ from US trade deal if it means higher drug prices, but government still refusing to release documents which might prove otherwise

Mass protests planned as Trump visits UK during election

Trade justice
General

Donald Trump arrives in the week before election day and the Stop Trump Coalition, which organised the huge protests against Trump’s visits in July 2018 and June this year, will be out on the streets again on Tuesday 3 December.

Boris Johnson must release ‘secret’ Trump trade files before general election

Trade justice

Campaign group Global Justice Now today called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to order the release of multiple documents, dubbed the ‘Trump Trade Files’, relating to trade talks between the UK government and the Trump administration, in advance of the general election on 12 December, so that the electorate can be properly informed on the government’s plans for post-Brexit trade.

Campaigners welcome NHS deal on cystic fibrosis drugs but warn system is broken

Pharma

After a four-year long fight campaigners and patient activists welcome the news this morning that the cystic fibrosis drugs, Orkambi and Symkevi will be made available under the NHS to patients in England. But this protracted price negotiation between the government and Orkambi manufacturer Vertex proves that a system that prioritises private profits over patients needs fundamental change.

 

Aid watchdog right to sound alarm at UK’s 'Global Britain' aid agenda

Aid

Our response to today’s ICAI report on UK aid and the government’s ‘mutual prosperity’ agenda,

'A government that is scared of parliament and big corporations'

Trade justice
Pharma

Global Justice Now's reaction to the Queen’s Speech.

Campaigners welcome Labour Party's pledge to transform medicine system

Pharma

Health campaigners have welcomed Jeremy Corbyn’s announcement of a range of policies to tackle the failings in the pharmaceutical sector in his speech to the Labour Party conference this afternoon.

British government condemned for sale of surveillance equipment to repressive states

Trade justice

Campaign group Global Justice Now issues a damning briefing today on the British government’s sale of surveillance equipment to repressive regimes around the world.
 

No Shock Doctrine for Britain. Don’t let Boris Johnson shut down parliament

General

Britain’s political crisis just got much deeper. This morning, the Prime Minster announced he would suspend parliament for five weeks while he puts together a new programme for government. The day after MPs agreed a cross-party plan to avoid No Deal, it’s clear that Johnson’s real purpose is to prevent MPs stopping his dangerous vision for Brexit.

Boris Johnson’s trade plans at G7 will be catastrophic: from the Amazon to the NHS

Trade justice
Climate and energy

Campaign group Global Justice Now lambasted the free trade policies of Boris Johnson today, claiming they represent both a threat to Britain’s public services and food system, and have brought runaway climate change a step closer. 

G7: Boris Johnson to put Britain on path to devastating trade deal with Trump

Trade justice
General

Leaders gathering at Biarritz summit are 'driving' world's problems despite claiming to solve them, campaigners say.

Approval of Armenian gold mine shows corporate courts ‘crush democracy’

Stop corporate courts

Global Justice Now and War on Want have today condemned the announcement by the Prime Minister of Armenia that he is authorising the controversial Amulsar gold mine in southern Armenia.

In a live online address last night, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who came to power last year after a wave of pro-democracy protests dubbed the ‘Velvet Revolution’, announced that the open-cast mine would go ahead.

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