Urgent Actions
Take Action
War on Want needs your help to carry out these urgent actions:
| Get your MP to demand that the Foreign Secretary introduce legislation on Private Armies now: Send a letter to your MP urging them to call on the Foreign Secretary to introduce legislation regulating private military and security companies as a matter of urgency. |
| Help stop the theft of Iraq's future: Tell Shell and BP: Hands Off Iraqi Oil! Saturday 23 February is the Hands Off Iraqi Oil national day of action - click for more. |
![]() | Email the Foreign Secretary about British mining companies British mining companies profit from situations of conflict - tell the government to support legislation for corporate accountability. |
![]() | Take action for Western Sahara: Tens of thousands of Saharawi people are living in a state of siege and face appalling human rights abuses and repression. Email David Miliband MP to take action |
| Call on the government to put pressure on Israel: Tell the Foreign Secretary to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement. |
![]() | Stop Corporate Tax Dodging: Send an email to Gordon Brown to demand that he take action to stop corporate tax dodging. |
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Call on the government to regulate supermarkets: Email John Hutton urging for legislation so that companies and their suppliers cannot abuse workers where they operate in the world, and if they do then they can seek redress. |
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Coca-Cola e-card: Send a postcard to Coca-Cola management urging them to redress the damage that they are inflicting upon communities and its workers worldwide. |
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Demand Trade Justice: Send an email to EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson and demand trade justice NOW |
| Join the fight against global poverty: Be a part of the solution. We need your help and support to continue our work campaigning and supporting overseas projects. |








