Nick Dearden

Nick Dearden, photo by Genevieve Stevenson

Role

Director

Biography

As director, Nick manages the staff team and resources on behalf of Global Justice Now's members. He is also the public face of the organisation. Nick started his career at War on Want where he became a senior campaigner. He went on to be corporates campaign manager at Amnesty International UK. As director of the Jubilee Debt Campaign, he built strong relationships with campaigners in the global south. He helped win a new law to stop Vulture Funds from using UK courts to squeeze huge debt payments out of poor countries. Nick joined Global Justice Now in September 2013.

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Big Tech should be taxed and regulated – but the Davos elite wants to give Amazon and Facebook even more power

Nick Dearden
Nick Dearden, photo by Genevieve Stevenson

25 January 2019
Trade justice

This morning a group of mostly rich countries used the World Economic Forum in Davos to call for negotiations on digital trade. This is ‘next big thing’ in trade talks: trying to create global rules to govern rapidly increasing online trade and accompanying flows of data (the so-called ‘oil’ of the new economy).

Highlights of the year: what we achieved together in 2018

Nick Dearden
Nick Dearden, photo by Genevieve Stevenson

20 December 2018
General

Brexit, Trump, trade wars, climate catastrophe, creeping fascism. Fear of what the future holds was never far from the minds of global justice campaigners in 2018. But the only way to build a better future is to organise and campaign – to light a candle rather than curse the darkness.  

What Theresa May’s Brexit deal means for global justice (if it happens)

Nick Dearden
Nick Dearden, photo by Genevieve Stevenson

15 November 2018
General

Global Justice Now took a ‘remain and reform’ position in the EU referendum – to stay in the EU in order to transform it. We feared that leaving would lead to an outpouring of xenophobia and racism, and would potentially unleash a wave of deregulation and liberalisation, especially through trade deals. We were right to be worried.

Untrammelled corporate power threatens global breakdown, says UN agency

Nick Dearden
Nick Dearden, photo by Genevieve Stevenson

11 October 2018
General

It’s a rare thing for UN economic reports to mention Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and quote Antonio Gramsci in their introduction. Neither do most such reports normally contain stark warnings about the damage that untrammelled corporate power is causing to political fabric of countries across the world.

#10YearsOn – Our leaders failed us. It’s up to us to tackle the power of big finance

Nick Dearden
Nick Dearden, photo by Genevieve Stevenson

14 September 2018
General

Ten years have passed since the defining moment of the financial crash: on 15 September 2008, investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed. The financial system froze and political elites stared into the abyss.

We came in our thousands to stand up to Trump. Now let’s tackle the root causes of Trumpism

Nick Dearden
Nick Dearden, photo by Genevieve Stevenson

16 July 2018
General

Friday was the most exciting demonstration I’ve been to for a decade. 250,000 of us stood up to the divisive, bigoted, climate-change-denying policies of Donald Trump. It was the biggest protest against Trump outside the US to date, which made international headlines.

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