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Family victims win compensation
03 February 2012, Latest news
Yesterday, the families of three workers who were killed in Eurotex and Continental Garment factories as a result of two incidences last December, a fire and an accident in a lift, got compensation set at an historic level, based on "loss of earnings".
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Blood, Sweat & Gear – the human cost of the London Olympics
26 January 2012, Upcoming events
Will the legacy of the London Olympics be exploited garment workers and the marginalisation of local communities?
Join us on 24 March 2012 at this free event, for a day of discussion and workshops on how we can stop the Olympic dream becoming a nightmare.
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Geneva trade summit ‘must be WTO’s last’
14 December 2011, Press releases
Global trade ministers today face pressure to announce a formal end to their Doha negotiations amid warnings of millions of jobs at risk. The call, made on the eve of the World Trade Organisation ministerial conference, comes from the charity War on Want, which has published research into the likely impact of further trade liberalisation through WTO negotiations.
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Two Bangladeshi garment workers killed in a stampede
12 December 2011, Latest news
Jeesimn Akter, 20 years old, and Taslima Akter, 22 years old, were killed last week in a stampede following a boiler explosion in the Eurotex garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. 62 workers were also badly injured.
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Chinese sweatshops: Making Toys without Joy
09 December 2011, Latest news
"While toys bring joy to children, and while toy companies feast on their profits, let us not forget that toy workers in China, who make over 70% of the world's toys, continue to toil in coastal sweatshops miles away from their family members in inland provinces" says War on Want's partner Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) in their latest report. They campaign for the improvement of Chinese workers' rights.
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112 labour rights organisations call for legislation threatening workers’ rights to be withdrawn in Malaysia
08 December 2011, Latest news
112 labour organizations, amongst them the Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC) and War on Want, are calling on the Malaysian government to scrap a new Employment Act which proposes to make changes to the way in which labour is contracted out. The groups have denounced the changes as unconstitutional and detrimental to workers' rights and trade unions. The Bill has already been approved by the Malaysian House of Representatives, but still needs to be passed by the Senate and receive royal assent in order to come into effect.
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CODEMUH calls for decent work principles and to put an end to impunity!
02 December 2011, Latest news
In November, the Honduran Women's Collective (CODEMUH), War on Want's long term partner supporting women maquila workers in Honduras, launched a campaign to raise awareness among the Honduran population of the occupational health problems endured by sweatshop workers and to strengthen women workers' organizational skills enabling them to stand up for their rights.
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Bangladeshi garment workers supporting UK strike
01 December 2011, Latest news
Several hundred garment workers took part in a solidarity rally in Dhaka (Bangladesh) organised by War on Want's partner, the National Garment Workers Federation (NGWF), in support of trade unions and workers in the UK taking industrial action.
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30 November 2011 - Solidarity gone global!
01 December 2011, Previous events
War on Want visited picket lines in London, providing striking public sector workers with food and hot drinks.
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International Food Sovereignty Day: 5 December 2011
01 December 2011, Latest news
La Via Campesina is calling for an international food sovereignty day of mass actions on 5 December 2011. The international network is calling on all farmers, workers and the landless and all social movements to demand:
- Genuine agrarian reform for food sovereignty
- Agro ecological revolution as the solution to climate change
- Restructuring of the entire food system
- Full and equal participation of women in the new food system and in the society as a whole
- Building of a food system based on human needs
- End to multinational control of our genetic resources
- Seed sovereignty where seed can adapt and mitigate climate change
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Anti-poverty charity joins union action
30 November 2011, Press releases
‘We’re all in this together,’ says War on Want
Campaigners from the anti-poverty charity War on Want will today hand out hot drinks and food to strikers on London picket lines in support of their protest for fair pensions.
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Support the trade unions on 30 November!
22 November 2011, Latest news
On 30 November millions of public sector workers – including nurses, teachers, local government and care workers – will take industrial action across the UK for pensions justice and against the government's austerity programme. War on Want is urging its supporters to add their voices in support of workers' rights and public services.
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Radical gifts spark ‘true’ Christmas spirit
14 November 2011, Press releases
Now you can buy Christmas goodies that will not only delight families and friends, but help build a fairer society.
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Ministers warned: Get out of Libya
11 November 2011, Press releases
The UK government warned that Libyan hopes for peace and prosperity will suffer if Britain repeats its mistakes in Iraq by meddling in the country’s post-Gaddafi future
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G20 leaders still not leading
10 November 2011, Latest news
As the global economy lurches from crisis to crisis, driven by skittish markets, the G20 met last week in Cannes in southern France. The self-appointed group has given itself the task of sorting out the financial crisis, yet despite the severity of the situation they showed themselves to be lacking in new ideas.
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Food is not a business, but a human right
03 November 2011, Latest news
Read the Inter Press Service interview with War on Want's partner in Brazil, the Landless Workers Movement (MST), outlining the role of small-scale producers and rural women in achieving food security and sovereignty. Read the interview here
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G20 must ‘drop obsession with free markets’ – GMB, War on Want
03 November 2011, Press releases
The GMB and War on Want today add their voices to growing international calls for structural economic reform, in the first combined union-charity statement to link the crises in Europe and in the developing world.
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Agro-ecology and Food Sovereignty in Cuba
01 November 2011, Latest news
During the food sovereignty day organised by War on Want at the House of Commons on 18 October, Roberto Caballero, expert from the Cuban Association of Technicians on Agriculture and Forestry, explained how the agro-ecology model has been successfully applied in his country. He stressed that food can be produced everywhere by everybody.
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The Financial Transactions Tax: an idea whose time has come
31 October 2011, Latest news
Two years on from the supposed 'end' of the financial crisis, the economic outlook continues to worsen for the vast majority of ordinary people. Unemployment, particularly for young people, has reached record highs following government austerity programmes, while inflation continues to rocket. At the European level, the Eurozone itself is in crisis and is being propped up by further taxpayer-funded bailouts.
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Album in a Day - now on iTunes
24 October 2011, Latest news
If you have not yet got your copy of the Album in a Day recorded by G2 Studios, in aid of War on Want, it is now available to download from iTunes.
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