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Below is a selection of War on Want's appearances in the media.
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| 2013 |
Time 26-Apr-13 Must-Reads from Around the World
The Independent 26-Apr-13 290 dead as high street fashion chains told to put lives before profits after Bangladeshi factory collapse
Arise News 25-Apr-13 War on Want's Laia Blanch commenting on Bangladesh factory collapse (interview starts at 5m 20s).
Reuters 25-Apr-13 Bangladesh building tragedy down to West's cost squeeze
Daily Telegraph 25-Apr-13 Bangladesh factory collapse: rescue teams hunt for survivors
The Guardian 25-Apr-13 UK starts controlling drones in Afghanistan from British soil
Huffington Post 14-Feb-13 Mali, Algeria, Libya and the New Front Line In 'Energy Diplomacy'
The Guardian 27-Jan-13 Global food crisis: hunger games
Daily Mirror 21-Jan-13 'Pippa' bag profits as workers struggle
The Guardian 17-Jan-13 Other lives: Khorshed Alam
| 2012 |
The Guardian 05-Dec-12 Tax avoidance: George Osborne accused of 'tinkering around the edges'
BBC News 03-Dec-12 Tax authority HMRC urged to get tough on global firms
Al Jazeera 26-Nov-12 Cutting corners in Bangladesh (video)
Daily Mirror 10-Nov-12 That's rich! Starbucks paying staff 25p an hour in new Indian cafes
politics.co.uk 01-Nov-12 Comment: In Britain and Africa, campaigners fight for housing equality
Press TV 29-Oct-12 Potential food crisis linked to banks (video)
Morning Star 17-Sep-12 Good Food activists call for humane new system
politics.co.uk 14-Sep-12 Comment: Chinese worker exploitation, the iPhone5 and you
Third Sector 11-Sep-12 Case Study: War on Want
Ethical Corporation Magazine 04-Sep-12 NGO Watch – September 2012
New Statesman 18-Aug-12 Thirty years since Mexico's default, Greece must break this sadistic debt spiral
The Guardian 17-Aug-12 Is the faultline among NGOs over the future of development deepening?
The Metro 15-Aug-12 Tax-dodging fugitives on £750 million hit list
The Guardian 13-Aug-12 UK hunger summit's focus on global malnutrition receives cautious welcome
The Guardian 11-Aug-12 Hunger summit: think small
Huffington Post UK 10-Aug-12 Bid for Africa’s First Olympics, But What About Kenya’s Hardest Hit?
Marketing 08-Aug-12 BP and EDF targeted by spoof newspaper
Marketing 06-Aug-12 Adidas targeted with giant ‘exploitation’ projection at Olympic Park
Breaking News 04-Aug-12 Anti-Exploitation campaigners target Adidas
Press Association 04-Aug-12 Campaigners target sportswear giant
The Express 04-Aug-12 Campaigners target sportswear giant
Yahoo! News 04-Aug-12 Campaigners target sportswear giant
The Guardian 01-Aug-12 Ban Ki-moon names panel to lead global development agenda post-2015
The Guardian 24-Jul-12 Privatising security set to increase despite Olympics row
Independent 25-Jul-12 £100m in sponsorship - and the Olympics have Adidas written all over them
Huffington Post UK 23-Jul-12 Fate often moves with ironic steps
Metro 14-Jul-12 Adidas hit by price tag protest over third world workers
The Guardian 04-Jul-12 We demand a judicial inquiry into banking
Huffington Post UK 23-Jun-12 Comment: Fate often moves with ironic steps
One World 23-Jun-12 Olympic sponsor slated over factory pay ‘insult’
Morning Star 23-Jun-12 Adidas insults workers with £35 vouchers
Politics.co.uk 20-Jun-12 Comment: It's time to confront corporations' crimes against humanity
Huffington Post UK 19-Jun-12 Rio Summit Must Put People Before Profits
Morning Star 19-Jun-12 Business as usual is not an option
The Guardian (letters) 19-Jun-12 Turn despair into hope at the Earth summit
The Guardian 15-Jun-12 Mining firm Bumi accused of human rights abuses
Morning Star 08-Jun-12 Sweatshop shame for Adidas
BBC News 07-Jun-12 London 2012: War on Want criticises Adidas 'sweatshops'
Third Sector 07-Jun-12 War on Want: Digital campaign of the week
The Ecologist 16-May-12 Curbing supermarkets' power: will the Groceries Code Adjudicator have the teeth to bite?
The Independent 05-May-12 The shareholder spring
Al Jazeera 02-May-12 Peru: Undermining justice
Huffington Post 28-Apr-12 Shappi Khorsandi: Why I'm supporting War on Want
The Observer 22-Apr-12 Queen's speech omission ignites overseas aid row
Red Pepper 01-Apr-12 The Olympic branding game
Left Foot Forward 31-Mar-12 Nike's exploitation of female workers
Morning Star 23-Mar-12 Real brand of Olympics 2012: sweatshop labour
Daily Star 08-Mar-12 9p per hour for Olympic logo 'slaves'
The Drum 07-Mar-12 Adidas responds to War on Want claims that it supports slavery
Huffington Post 07-Mar-12 Tessa Jowell urges London 2012 Olympics sponsor Adidas to change worker conditions
The Observer 04-Mar-12 Olympic brands caught up in abuse scandal
Daily Express 29-Feb-12 Redgrave supports anti-poverty appeal
The Ecologist 07-Feb-12 Co-op, M&S and Waitrose close links to 'unethical' companies
The Guardian 06-Feb-12 How £50m in UN food aid for starving went to Glencore
BBC Newsnight 01-Feb-12 Does the UK's aid programme win business contracts?
The Friend 26-Jan-12 Clothing: Time to Act
Daily Mail 08-Jan-12 Kate urged: lobby fashion chain over slave labour row
Morning Star 05-Jan-12 Coalition plans 'aid for a price' program
New Internationalist 01-Jan-12 Is the EU damaging to democratic rights?
| 2011 |
Morning Star 22-Dec-11 The destruction of Palestinian homes must end
The Guardian 21-Dec-11 Tax avoidance must become taboo
Just-style.com 19-Dec-11 BANGLADESH: Compensation sought after Zara factory deaths
Russia Today 15-Dec-11 No credence in Blackwater revival
The Guardian 15-Nov-11 We are the change: welfare, education and law at the Occupy camp
OneWorld 11-Nov-11 UK ministers warned: Get out of Libya
Russia Today 11-Nov-11 Make money, make war: UK profits from Libya mess
Financial Times 17-Oct-11 UK food policy blamed for global hunger
Morning Star 29-Sep-11 Out of sight - out of mind
Morning Star 23-Aug-11 Campaigners warn 'hallmarks of a new Afghanistan are all there'
BBC News 27-Jul-11 Glastonbury's Michael Eavis backs 'sweat-free' Olympics
Morning Star 26-Jul-11 Glasto boss: No sweat at Olympic Games
The People 17-Jul-11 Bangladeshi workers claim they are slaves to make dresses for brand favoured by Kate and Pippa Middleton
Metro 14-Jul-11 Nike staff in Indonesia subject to 'serious' physical and verbal abuse
Daily Telegraph 14-Jul-11 Tax haven abuse costs the UK government £16 billion per year
BBC Newsnight 13-Jun-11 Can philanthropy save the world?
Morning Star 13-Jun-11 BBC swallows 'precision' lies
Red Pepper 01-Jun-11 Libya: Here we go again
Daily Mail 28-May-11 Kate's dazzling dress is made in Romanian 'sweatshop' by women on just 99p an hour
Daily Telegraph 08-May-11 New Look and Primark help Indian factory workers to open bank accounts
The Ecologist 13-Apr-11 PG Tips and Lipton tea hit by 'sexual harassment and poor conditions' claims
Daily Mirror 09-Apr-11 Mercenaries hired to gather intelligence in creeping privatisation of the war in Afghanistan
politics.co.uk 31-Mar-11 Charities and unions rally to support UK Uncut
Daily Telegraph 26-Mar-11 Massive police operation begins as hundreds of thousands gather for spending cuts march
Morning Star 24-Mar-11 The future's handed over
Daily Mirror 23-Mar-11 Campaigners to protest against cuts
Red Pepper 18-Mar-11 War on Want: Poverty is political
The Guardian 11-Mar-11 Britain's investment for development comes under scrutiny
Daily Mail 23-Feb-11 It is not wrong to sell arms, says David Cameron as he defends sale of weapons to Middle East
The Independent 22-Feb-11 Cameron attacked for Egypt visit with defence sales team in tow
New Statesman 14-Feb-11 The reality of Britain's war in Afghanistan
The Guardian 14-Feb-11 Sixty years campaigning to end poverty - in pictures
The Guardian 12-Feb-11 War on Want: 60 years on, still fighting poverty and militarism
The Guardian 12-Feb-11 War on Want letter urges UK troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
Daily Telegraph 05-Feb-11 Major UK retailer's child labour problem
The Guardian 01-Feb-11 Call for an inquiry into use of CS spray
Morning Star 15-Jan-11 Israel training Brit army in drone use
| 2010 |
Morning Star 22-Dec-10 British police linked to death squads
Scotland on Sunday 19-Dec-10 Call to unmask Weir bosses behind £3m Iraq kickbacks
The Observer 12-Dec-10 Britain's high street chains are named by sweatshop probe
The Scotsman 01-Dec-10 War on Want defends its backing of tax protests
BBC News online 20-Nov-10 Protest against Afghanistan war
The Guardian 02-Nov-10 The Business: Could a US-China trade war take down the world economy?
Civil Society 14-Oct-10 All in: War on Want's fully integrated World Cup campaign
The Metro 30-Sep-10 Tetley accused of violating human rights after three worker deaths
The New York Times 17-Sep-10 Fun With Rental Bikes in Paris and London
Daily Mail 13-Sep-10 High life of third world poverty quango bosses
Morning Star 01-Sep-10 Charity coalition urge action on ending £30bn Pakistan debt
The Guardian 26-Aug-10 Andrew Mitchell soothes charities' fears over planned DfID cuts
The Guardian 10-Aug-10 Ex-Northern Ireland policeman shot dead in Afghanistan by prisoner
Morning Star 26-Jul-10 Starving and exploited: true cost of your cuppa
CNN International 08-Jul-10 Fact or fiction: World Cup woes for homeless
The Metro 22-Jun-10 Wags in £9,000 World Cup goody bags row
Daily Mail 21-Jun-10 England's WAGs will get £9,000 goody bag to attend cocktail party in poverty-hit South Africa
New Statesman 11-Jun-10 Back the people of South Africa, not the football teams
The Indepedent 09-Jun-10 Government may withdraw billions from overseas projects
PBS NewsHour 08-Jun-10 Slide Show: South Africa's Diverse Soccer Stadiums
The Independent 27-May-10 Concern over human cost overshadows iPad launch
The Sun 19-Apr-10 Homeless and away
The Guardian 02-Apr-10 Life in 'Tin Can Town' for the South Africans evicted ahead of World Cup
Indymedia 31-Mar-10 Waitrose Supermarket Occupied on International BDS Day of Action
The Metro 29-Mar-10 World Cup bosses kick out homeless
The Independent 22-Mar-10 'Economic cleansing' in BBC's World Cup backyard
The Independent 02-Mar-10 - 21 workers die in fire at H&M factory
The Independent 02-Mar-10 - Marks & Spencer sets out its sustainable stall
The Guardian 19-Feb-10 - Parts for sniper rifles among Britain's military sales to Israel
The Times 31-Jan-10 - Ugly low-pay truth of high street fashion
The Independent 15-Jan-10 -Sweatshop workers pay the price for our bargains
The Independent 15-Jan-10 - Shoes given the boot as recession hits spending
The Guardian 13-Jan-10 - Supermarket ombudsman gets go-ahead
The Guardian 13-Jan-10 - Israel and protests against the Wall
The Guardian 11-Jan-10 - On the other side: Kibera Slum, Kenya
The Times 03-Jan-10 - Tony Blair's £1m-a-year paymaster seeks giant Iraqi oil deal
| 2009 |
The Independent 04-Dec-09 - Primark faces new claims that it uses sweatshop labour
The Evening Herald 04-Dec-09 - New sweatshop labour claims against Penneys parent company Primark
Daily Mirror 10-Nov-09 - Cut-price wages for cut-price clothing
BBC News 07-Nov-09 - G20 summit tries to tackle rifts
Daily Mail 03-Nov-09 - Primark set to outstrip M&S as credit crunch fuels growth
The Guardian 03-Nov-09 - Primark profits boom prompts renewed attack by War on Want
The Times 23-Oct-09 - Government aims to impose rules on armed guards
The Guardian 20-Oct-09 - Regulate private military firms to stem rights abuses, ministers told
Sky News 06-Oct-09 - Campaigners Hungry For Supermarket Watchdog
New Statesman 24-Sep-09 - Make your own manifesto
The Guardian 27-Aug-09 - Charities applaud FSA's support for new bank tax
The Guardian 13-Aug-09 - How ethical are supermarket clothes?
Fair Home 07-Aug-09 - Ombudsman to discipline supermarket bullies
The Guardian 04-Aug-09 - Competition Commission calls for supermarket ombudsman
The Independent 04-Aug-09 - Commission defies supermarkets over ombudsman
The Independent 13-Jul-09 - Let voters decide aid projects, say Tories
Al Jazeera 11-Jul-09 - Decoding the G8 (video)
The Times 10-Jul-09 - M&S accused of hypocrisy over suppliers
London Evening Standard 07-Jul-09 - Primark shrugs off brickbats as sales go rocketing by 21%
bdnews24.com 04-Jul-09 - UK's largest retailer under fire after Bangladesh worker riots
The Independent 03-Jul-09 - Tesco faces union anger over meat workers
Citywire 03-Jul-09 - Tesco faces showdown over wages
The Guardian 01-Jul-09 - The future we are entitled to (letter)
The Guardian 22-Jun-09 - The trillion dollar drain on world's poor
UTV News 21-Jun-09 - Taxpayers hit by £150m cost of mercenaries
The Guardian 12-Jun-09 - World Cup 2010: football brings defining moment for South Africa
The Guardian 12-Jun-09 - Western Sahara's lingering crisis
The South African 21-May-09 - Tesco under fire in SA fruit picking row
The Guardian 15-May-09 - 'Tesco should give us some of those billions'
The Guardian 15-May-09 - Tesco 'breaking promise' to South African fruit pickers
Surrey Comet 05-May-09 - Tooting Primark opens early after protest threat
Sunday Times 03-May-09 - Poverty staff share £65m bonuses
The Scotsman 30-Apr-09 - Anger as boss of anti-poverty company is paid £1m a year
The Independent 30-Apr-09 - Poverty boss's £1m 'extraordinary' pay package revealed
The Guardian 29-Apr-09 - Made in Bangladesh: a tale of two workforces
Financial Times 25-Apr-09 - No licence requirement for private military
OneWorld.net 23-Apr-09 - Tesco, Primark 'poverty profits' attacked
Real News Network 01-Apr-09 - War on Want video interview at G20 protests
Daily Mirror 01-Apr-09 - G20 Summit: Cops talk to protesters in City riot fear
The Times 01-Apr-09 - On the spot: G20 battle between police and protesters outside RBS in City of London
The Guardian 25-Mar-09 - Brown's free trade plea 'puts millions of jobs at risk'
Mail & Guardian Online (South Africa) 13-Feb-09 - Cape wine workers paid less than R60 a day
Daily Mirror 13-Feb-09 - Valentine's wine whine
Daily Mail 13-Feb-09 - £2 bunch of roses: The budget bouquet for Valentine's Day, by Asda
The Guardian 31-Jan-09 - Keep ethical trading in fashion
| 2008 |
The Independent 05-Dec-08 - Dhaka workers earn 'as little as 7p an hour'
The Telegraph 05-12-08 - Foreign high street clothes makers 'earn 7p an hour'
Channel 4 News 05-Dec-08 - Video report of War on Want demo outside Primark
The Guardian 05-Dec-08 - Retailers accused of ignoring Bangladeshi workers' plight
BBC News 05-Dec-08 - UK clothes chains 'abuse workers'
Daily Telegraph 30-Oct-08 - Civil servants responsible for Third World aid get hundreds of thousands in bonuses
The Times 29-Oct-08 - Shoppers vote Primark the least ethical clothing retailer
The Guardian 12-Sep-08 - Fashion chains lag over living wage, says report
The Guardian 09-Sep-08 - Norway ejects mining giant Rio from its pension portfolio
The Independent 24-Aug-08 - British firms trading in Zimbabwe refuse to sign ethical code
The Daily Mail 26-Jun-08 - Now Tesco are caught up in child labour row over suppliers who pay only 16p an hour
The Evening Standard 26-Jun-08 - Tesco 'slave labour' row
The Daily Mail 23-Jun-08 - Exposed: Primark's fashion sweatshops that pay children just 60p a day
BBC Online 22-Jun-08 - Ministers pressed on child labour
Al Jazeera 14-May-08 - People and Power - Knockout Blow, part 2
Part 1 can be seen here
The Guardian 12-May-08 - UK palm oil consumption fuels Colombia violence, says report
The Guardian 17-Apr-08 - Investors in Rio Tinto and BP face protests
The Independent 21-Mar-09 - Wages row overshadows Banana Republic launch
Daily Mail 20-Mar-08 - Banana Republic opens first store in London - but is accused of paying Indian workers just 15p an hour
The Guardian 18-Feb-08 - Miliband urged to regulate private military
Counterpunch 16-Feb-08 - Bush returns to Africa
The Herald 14-Feb-08 - Charity urges Westminster to regulate UK mercenary firms
The Mirror 14-Feb-08 - Charity blasts 10p/hr pay for Third World Valentine's rose workers
Daily Mail 13-Feb-08 - Cheap supermarket Valentine roses 'exploit the poor'
| 2007 |
The Sunday Times 23-Dec-07 - Disney toys made in 'sweatshops'
The Guardian 18-Dec-07 - Exploitation at a discount
BBC Online 04-Dec-07 - Charity urges mercenary crackdown
The Guardian 20-Nov-07 - Mining accused of complicity in rights violations
BBC Online 20-Nov-07 - Mining firms 'polluting Africa'
The Independent 16-Nov-07 - The real cost of fashion: A special report
The Guardian 13-Nov-07 - Charities want UK to withhold World Bank cash over loans to poor
The Guardian 22-Sep-07 - Iraq's hired hands under fire as the pot of gold starts to run low
The Independent 14-Sep-07 - Sweatshops paying workers half what they need to live
The Guardian 14-Sep-07 - Top fashion brands accused over failure to ensure living wage
Muslim Weekly 14-Sep-07 - Palestinian footballers denied visas to UK
The Guardian 03-Sep-07 - The sweatshop high street
Forbes 30-Aug-07 - The 100 Most Powerful Women: #7 Cynthia Carroll
BBC Online 17-Aug-07 - Scepticism over UK clothes claims
The Scotsman 09-Aug-07 - Does the devil wear Primark?
The Guardian 03-Aug-07 - Mining giant accused of profiting from abuse by
Colombian army
The Times 03-Aug-07 - Tesco's Fresh & Easy stores hit image problem before opening
BBC Online 16-Jul-07 - Tesco and Asda check abuse claims
The Guardian 16-Jul-07 - Asda, Primark and Tesco accused over clothing factories
Scotland on Sunday 03-Jun-07 - In the line of fire
Daily Telegraph 15-May-07 - Investor puts ethics on Tesco's agenda
BBC World Service 14-May-07 - Armies for hire
Counterpunch 12-May-07 - Inside Colombia's flower industry
The Times 28-Apr-07 - Bargain hunter: sale mania
Daily Mail 09-Apr-07 - Who's the real fashion victim?
The Guardian 06-Apr-07 - Primark's £8 jeans and £2 bikinis cause stampede
The Guardian 02-Apr-07 - 25% of UK Iraq aid budget goes to security firms
The Guardian 15-Mar-07 - Charity calls for compensation for flower workers
The Independent 15-Mar-07 - The pain and abuse behind a Mother's Day bouquet
The Observer 25-Feb-07 - Iraq poised to hand control of oil fields to foreign firms
| 2006 |
India Times 09-Dec-06 - Cheap labour, death trap factories haunt Tesco
The Guardian 08-Dec-06 - An 80-hour work week for 5p an hour: the real price of high-street fashion
BBC Online 08-Dec-06 - UK firms 'exploiting Bangladesh'
The Metro 08-Dec-06 - Supermarkets' sweatshop shame
The Guardian 31-Oct-06 - Fears over huge growth in Iraq's unregulated private armies
The Independent 30-Oct-06 - Blair accused of trying to 'privatise' war in Iraq
The Independent 30-Oct-06 - Privatisation has no place in war
BBC Online 30-Oct-06 - Security firms 'abusing Iraqis'
Financial Times 30-Oct-06 - Government delays plans to regulate use of private armed guards in war zones
The Independent 11-Sep-06 - Aid agency slated over power projects
The Guardian 18-Aug-06 - Has Coke become the new McDonald's?
The Guardian 25-Jul-06 - Campaign of the Week: War on Want
Financial Times 15-Jun-06 - Ethics, enterprise and expediency
The Independent 12-Jun-06 - Asda accused of risking food hygiene to cut costs
The Independent 08-Jun-06 - The Ethics Audit 2006
BBC World Service 06-Jun-06 - Debate: Global Business and Corporate Social Responsibility
Political Affairs 09-May-06 - The 'Coke side of life' could get you killed
BBC Online 26-Apr-06 - EU and US rapped over trade talks
ZNet 03-Apr-06 - Coca Cola: Sucking Communities Dry
epolitix.com 03-Apr-06 - Campaigners seek business responsibility
Financial Times 30-Mar-06 - EU aims to curb export taxes in Doha talks
The Guardian 22-Mar-06 - Brown's globalisation panel of 'wise men' attacked from all sides
The Observer 19-Mar-06 - Coke 'drinks India dry'
Independent on Sunday 19-Mar-06 - Coke: Campaigners demand action against feelgood drinks firm
Ekklesia 08-Mar-06 - Parishes to boycott C of E over continued investment in Caterpillar
