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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Latest posts

Why today's trade deals are incompatible with climate action

Nick Dearden
Nick Dearden, photo by Genevieve Stevenson

27 August 2019
Climate and energy

Talk about fiddling while Rome burns. As the G7 met at the weekend, unprecedented fires were raging in the Amazon, symbolising a climate emergency that gets more serious by the day. But while world leaders express concern about the Amazon fires, they continue to pursue the very policies which drive climate change, including ever deeper free trade deals.

Together we must hold the Johnson government to account. This is not the time to be silent.

Nick Dearden
Nick Dearden, photo by Genevieve Stevenson

25 July 2019
General

Boris Johnson has become Prime Minister, he has chosen his government and we have reasons to fear it could be severely damaging to the values we hold dear. Together, we must hold the Johnson government to account, and push the alternatives that bring us closer to the world we want.

In Libya we are seeing the full horror of Britain’s brutal migration policy

Nick Dearden
Nick Dearden, photo by Genevieve Stevenson

07 July 2019
Migration

In the last week we have seen the full horror of Britain’s brutal migration policy. 53 migrants were killed on Tuesday when a Libyan detention centre was bombed.

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.

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