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foreign aid Articles

Defending overseas aid

The increase in overseas aid has cross-party support because it is right and it works In these times of austerity there are few areas of spending which enjoy cross-party support yet as the budget looms this Wednesday all three main parties are still committed to...

A time of challenge and opportunity

Speech to Labour North-West conference, 5 November 2011 We meet at a time of challenge and opportunity for the Labour party, and at a time of anxiety and frustration for the country. We are still bruised by our defeat, but more importantly the public are hurting as a...

Putting the global into Labour’s policy review

Everyone has a piece of advice to lend the Labour party, from tackling the UK’s deficit to the policy review, but shadow teams must remember the global as well as the local as they develop new ideas.

DR Congo: ‘rape capital of the world’

Today is the international day for the elimination of violence against women. In the DR Congo, the deadliest war in the world is raging, and conflict minerals are helping to fuel the violence. Yet they continue to make their way into our electronics.