Campaigns

Past Campaigns

War on Want has always believed that poverty is not inevitable. We know that it springs from specific and deliberate policies that make and keep people poor. We fight for radical change in international structures, in the UK, in Europe and globally. And we work with some of the most inspiring people in the world fighting for real and lasting change.

Corporate Accountability:
War on Want is campaigning for legally binding set of rules to hold big business to account for its impacts on people and the environment.

Western Sahara: 30 Years is Enough:
For 30 years the Saharawi people of Western Sahara have lived in refugee camps in some of the harshest conditions on earth, while their country remains under occupation by Morocco.

Trade & WTO:
War on Want is at the forefront of the global movement campaigning for trade rules that put people and the environment before the interests of big business.

Privatisation & Poverty
A wave of protest is growing across the developing world as essential services are sold off to big business. Join the resistance.

Mayday Colombia
Colombia is the most dangerous country in the world to be a trade unionist. War on Want believes that poverty will only be alleviated when trade unions are respected.

Stamp Out Poverty
Originating out of War on Want's Tobin Tax campaign, Stamp Out Poverty campaigns for currency transaction taxes and other new sources of development finance.

Make Poverty History
War on Want was at the centre of the campaign in 2005 that fought for trade justice, debt relief and more and better aid - and saw 225,000 people take to the streets of Edinburgh.

Sweatships
For many people, cruises are a dream way of taking a holiday. Visiting exotic ports of call from the relative safety of our floating hotel. But the reality for workers is very different.

Drug Dumping
War on Want teamed up with comedian Mark Thomas to expose the potential damage of granting a tax exemption to pharmaceutical companies donating drugs to the Third World.

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