Clare Short supports NGO’s agenda for radical change

Ms Short said: "War on Want has championed the cause of global social justice for 50 years. Now, when globalisation could lead either to a massive reduction of poverty or the further marginalisation and impoverishment of the poor, we need the voices of organisations like War on Want to be speaking out for radical change and reform.

"We need these voices to pressure governments and international organisations to put in place the policies that will make globalisation work for the world’s poor."

Ms Short will address the conference on Saturday 24th February at the University of Westminster. Other speakers at the ‘Globalisation and World Poverty’ conference include journalists Larry Elliot and Victoria Brittain, and representatives of War on Want’s overseas partners.

Harold Wilson, Victor Gollancz and other prominent politicians founded War on Want in 1951. Over the past five decades the charity has highlighted some of the thorniest issues in international development including international debt, the dumping of baby milk powder and the rights of workers in sweatshops around the world.