Aisha Dodwell

Aisha Dodwell

Role

Former campaigns and policy manager

Biography

Aisha Dodwell worked at Global Justice Now between 2015 and 2018. She worked on policy and campaign strategy across a number of topics including food sovereignty, aid policy, migration and corporate power. Aisha previously worked with the international humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) managing their policy and public engagement work in the UK. She also spent four years as a part-time lecturer at Kingston University, teaching undergraduate courses in global politics and human rights. Aisha holds an MSc in Population and Development, a B.A. in International Studies and a PGDip in Gender and Sexuality.

Latest posts

5 things you can do to fight back against the hostile environment

Aisha Dodwell
Aisha Dodwell

27 April 2018
Migration

The recent scandal around the Windrush generation has exposed the true extent of the inhumanity underpinning the government’s immigration policy. Under the government’s Hostile Environment policy, people living here a lifetime have been harassed, sacked, arrested and even deported. But as well as demanding justice for the Windrush generation, we need to go further. Here are some steps you can take to do so.

Another blow for May’s hostile environment for immigrants

Aisha Dodwell
Aisha Dodwell

20 February 2018
Migration

In the space of just two weeks, two separate parliamentary select committees have issued two damning blows to the government’s policy to create a ‘hostile environment’ for immigrants.

The Syria police scandal shows it’s time to reclaim aid from the private profiteers

Aisha Dodwell
Aisha Dodwell

04 December 2017
Aid

Today UK aid is on the front pages again for all the wrong reasons. As today’s headlines peddle yet another story of aid misused by private contractors, this time in a conflict zone, the anti-aid lobby have been handed an open goal by the government’s continuing attempts to divert aid away from its core purpose.

These schools wouldn’t be good enough for kids in the UK, so stop promoting them overseas

Aisha Dodwell
Aisha Dodwell

22 November 2017
Aid

“Unsanitary learning conditions”, “unqualified teachers”, “poor quality education”, “unaffordable”. These are just some of the damning terms used to describe schools across Africa run by Bridge International Academies, a private for-profit company that provides ‘low cost’ private education.

The tabloids’ aggressive response to Stop Funding Hate’s Paperchase victory shows they’re feeling the heat

Aisha Dodwell
Aisha Dodwell

21 November 2017
Migration

The last few days have seen the question of advertising in the hate-filled right-wing media back in the news after a partnership between Paperchase and the Daily Mail on Saturday led to a customer backlash.

Pushing private education across Africa is about profits, not meeting peoples needs

Aisha Dodwell
Aisha Dodwell

04 May 2017
General

No one is any denial that there are huge challenges in many African countries in providing access to education.

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