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War on Want publishes reports and research across a broad range of development issues. Below is a downloadable list of our most recent reports in PDF format. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the files on your computer.

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The global sportswear brands abusing workers’ rights and our campaign to stop them

Olympic sportswear companies’ exploitation of Bangladeshi workers

Spanish translation of our report Women's Rights, Women's Resistance

Food Sovereignty report Food Sovereignty report November 2011

The report contrasts the UK government’s preferred approach of ‘food security’, based on free markets supplemented by aid, with the positive alternative of food sovereignty, which returns control over the food system to farmers.

In 2009, for the first time in human history, over a billion people were officially classified as living in hunger. This record total was not a consequence of poor global harvests or natural disasters.hunger on this scale is the result of the hijacking of the global food system by large agribusiness and food retailers.

Lessons from the Honduran Women’s Collective

Stitched Up Stitched Up August 2011

Women workers in the Bangladeshi garment sector

This report from War on Want, PCS and the Tax Justice Network reveals not only the financial cost of tax havens to our economies, but also the challenge such tax dodging poses to society itself.

Our Sour Grapes report translated into Xhosa

We’ve redesigned Up Front, our magazine for supporters, for our 60th anniversary year so that we can bring you more good news of how your support is helping in the fight for global justice

The Great Game The Great Game February 2011

The reality of Britain's war in Afghanistan

The coming year will be a special one for War on Want, as the organisation marks its 60th birthday. This annual review looks back at our proud history, as well as looking forward to what we wish to achieve in the year ahead.
Taking Liberties Taking Liberties December 2010

This report, published jointly with Labour Behind the Label, provides yet another example of the exploitation that lies behind the clothes sold on the UK high street.

This report exposes the companies that are profiting from the Occupation and calls on ordinary people around the world to take action.
This report looks women's labour migration in the manufacturing export sectors, highlighting that the hiring of young, flexible and cheap women workers forms an explicit strategy of governments and big corporations in the export sector.
Whether on farms, plantations or in factories, women are more likely than men to suffer from poverty wages, as well as deplorable working conditions and physical abuse on the job.
A Bitter Cup A Bitter Cup August 2010
Although the tea industry is booming and UK supermarkets are cashing in, workers in India and Keny are harassed, poorly paid  and denied trade union rights on tea plantations and in tea packing factories.

Este documento introduce el marco estratégico de War on Want para los siguientes cinco años, de abril de 2010 a marzo de 2015.

While vast sums have been invested in tourist facilities ahead of the 2010 World Cup, millions of South Africans today face appalling living conditions.
This document presents War on Want's strategic framework for the next five years.
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