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Internet activists should be careful what they wish for in Libya
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10 March 2011
Calls for a no-fly zone over Libya ignore the perils of intervention. Long-term solutions aren't as simple as the click of a mouse.
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Sixty years in the struggle against poverty
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13 February 2011
War on Want was formed 60 years ago. But its assertion that all poverty is political regularly brings it into conflict with the authorities.
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Is it time to cut off the government's development finance arm?
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15 September 2010
The Commonwealth Development Corporation has come under attack for the reportedly lavish expense claims of its executives. The government has launched a review, but does it have the will to change the remit of its development finance company?
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A myopic Tory approach to fighting global poverty
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28 August 2010
Andrew Mitchell's DfID leaks reveal the government shedding commitments in favour of a fixation with 'output-based aid'
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May Toronto's G20 be the last
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28 June 2010
It's not just the $1bn policing; the failure to tackle the financial crisis or climate change exposes a forum without credibility
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Cuts: who's paying for the financial crisis?
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17 May 2010
Political elites across Europe are adopting the Lib Dem-Con blueprint – making the public sector pay for private sector excess
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The arrogance of Saint Bob
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04 April 2010
Geldof may feel he alone put poverty on the global agenda, but I stand by my comments in tomorrow's Starsuckers documentary
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Finding fairer ways to trade
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01 March 2010
Fairtrade fortnight gives us a chance to celebrate models of trade that provide an alternative to the WTO's flawed solution
Welcome to Fairtrade Fortnight, the annual celebration of the movement that offers farmers in developing countries a guaranteed premium for their products over and above market rates. This year's theme is the Big Swap, where British consumers are invited to switch over their everyday shopping items to fairly traded versions. For your usual bananas, buy Fairtrade bananas. For cotton socks, buy Fairtrade cotton socks - and so on, right across the full range of more than 3,000 products now certified as Fairtrade.
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John Hilary is Executive Director of War on Want and writes regularly for The Guardian's Comment is Free blog
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Will Gordon Brown play Robin Hood?
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12 February 2010
The public mood is for making the banks pay, so the prime minister should hold his nerve and seize the opportunity
This week's high-profile launch of the Robin Hood tax campaign has reopened the debate on how the banks can repay their debt to society. For organisations such as War on Want that have championed a tax on financial transactions for the past 10 years, the popular support that has greeted the campaign is great news. But does Gordon Brown have the political will to match the public mood?
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John Hilary is Executive Director of War on Want and writes regularly for The Guardian's Comment is Free blog
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Stop corporate abuse of human rights
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16 December 2009
MPs have condemned a lack of regulation that allows British companies to continue with rights violations around the world
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Time to kill off Doha
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26 November 2009
Pascal Lamy is wrong: the Doha round of talks offers nothing to the world's poorest countries. The WTO has failed to deliver
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Don't let a backlash knock out Tobin tax
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09 November 2009
Gordon Brown has added to the momentum pushing for a tax on global financial transactions. But the battle is far from won
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Primark soars, but at what cost?
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05 November 2009
The economic downturn is clearly good news for the retailer. Maybe now it can afford to turn its ethical pledges into reality
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Restyling the fight against sweatshops
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19 September 2009
A new campaign is launching in London fashion week to help us look good without feeling bad
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Brown must go on a supermarket sweep
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05 August 2009
Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons oppose it, but we need an ombudsman scheme to stop retailers' abuse of power
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End the G8 charade – we need a G192
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06 July 2009
Institutions such as the G8 and G20 will only ever serve the interests of the few. We need a forum of the many
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Time to pull down Labour's big tent
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15 June 2009
We need a new pluralism in politics, based on an acceptance of difference, to address the global effects of the financial crisis
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Miliband and the mercenaries
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29 April 2009
The government's refusal to regulate military companies opens the way to the privatisation of war
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G20: Barred from the summit
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02 April 2009
My accreditation has been withdrawn. Has the government decided only to allow non-critical organisations into major events?
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The tax haven scandal must end
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13 March 2009
Britain's offshore tax havens are central to worldwide tax dodging. We must clean up our financial act.
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