Faith leaders to tell MPs that world needs new financial system
Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh leaders will urge MPs to support a radical overhaul of the financial system in a meeting in Parliament on Tuesday 5 February.
European debt crisis: Faith leaders call for radical economic change
347 faith leaders sign letter calling for a 'Jubilee for Justice'
Argentine ship ordered to be released from Ghana
A tribunal in Hamburg has decided on Saturday that the Argentine navy ship seized in Ghana, the ARA Libertad, should be released back to the South American country. The ARA…
Guatemala’s Chixoy dam: where development and terror intersect
A 1982 massacre paved the way for a hydroelectric dam built with development bank funds. What lessons have been learned? Thirty years ago a massacre took place in the Guatemalan…
Goodnight Greece – Good morning Colony!
Our friends in the Greek Debt Audit Campaign have responded to this week’s Eurogroup statement on Greece: Greek Debt Audit Campaign announcement on the November 27 Eurogroup decision. On November…
Indonesians paying £20 million for weapons used in repression
By 1 December 2012, the Indonesian people are due to pay the UK government £27 million. Of this, £20 million is for arms sales to past dictator General Suharto. In…
MPs inquiry calls for end to Dodgy Deals
A cross-party group of MPs has released a report into UK Export Finance – or what we call the Department for Dodgy Deals. The report, covered on the front page…
States of Jersey legislate against vulture funds
The parliament of Jersey, known as the States, has today passed legislation to limit the ability of vulture funds to sue some of the world’s most impoverished countries in the…
Florence blog: How much longer can we abandon Greece?
Ten years ago 60,000 activists converged in Florence for the first European Social Forum to discuss building another world. That meeting, four months before the invasion of Iraq, catalysed the…
Egypt groups speak out against IMF loan
Egyptian civil society and political groups have written an open letter to the head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, and the Egyptian President, to oppose the IMF’s proposed $4.8 billion…
