Sarah Owen MP: Cutting aid is a blow to the world’s poorest and a step back from world stage
‘As a country that wants to stand proud at home and abroad, we have a moral obligation to the world’s poorest.’
‘As a country that wants to stand proud at home and abroad, we have a moral obligation to the world’s poorest.’
‘We desperately need a clear commitment to international development with well targeted aid that listens to the Global South.’
If Labour’s view has shifted against debt cancellation, it marks an unwelcome sea change, writes Mike Buckley.
A cut to much-needed international aid could be on its way, writes Natalie Bennett.
Though not perfect, Osamor started Labour on a path to a genuinely democratic, progressive international aid policy. Here’s what her successor must build on.
Aid should not be a tool of business and military interests. It ought to be a mechanism for the global redistribution of wealth, a form of reparations for the historical injustices which underlie global inequality today.
A project-based funding approach presents major barriers to local women’s organisations
Patel wanted to replace international aid with private sector investment
The country’s colonial era tax treaty is currently being renegotiated
ActionAid held an alternative summit on challenging the status quo by empowering women first responders