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Colombian human rights defender visits UK to tell BP to pay up

8 May 2018 - 10:30am

Colombian human rights defender visits UK to tell BP to pay up and demand #OilJustice

In the days leading up to the protest at British Petroleum's annual general meeting in Manchester on 21 May, War on Want and the Oil Justice Project will be hosting a visit from Fabián Laverde Doncel, a Colombian human rights defender and legal advisor for victims of state and corporate crimes. 

Campaigners bring demands of affected communities to Anglo-American AGM

4 May 2018 - 5:00pm

Despite breaking news of its divestment from the Nautilus deep sea mining project, Anglo-American, one of the world’s largest mining companies, still faces a barrage of criticism over the devastating impacts of its operations worldwide.

McStrike to spread nationwide on 1 May

27 April 2018 - 12:00pm

  • Workers on strike at five McDonald’s stores on 1 May after strike ballot returned with over 95 percent support for industrial action.
  • UK McDonald’s workers went on strike for the first time ever last September. This time, workers in Crayford and Cambridge will be joined by colleagues from three new stores in Manchester and Watford, hometown of McDonald’s Global CEO Steve Easterbrook.
  • Over 90,000 #McStrike tweets were sent in the week before and after the first McStrike.
  • In January, McDonalds responded to September’s strike with largest pay increase for a decade.

Francia Marquez awarded Goldman Environmental Prize

25 April 2018 - 5:30pm

Francia Marquez of the Process of Black Communities, a long-standing partner of NOMADESC and War on Want, has this week been awarded the world renowned Goldman Environmental Prize for her courageous work defending the ancestral land and human rights of her community in La Toma, Colombia.

HSBC faces protests at AGM over investments in arms companies supplying Israeli government

24 April 2018 - 2:45pm

Campaign groups demand bank divest from companies they say supply arms used for violence against Palestinians, writes Ben Chapman for the Independent

HSBC grilled over complicity in human rights abuse by shareholders and campaigners at Friday’s AGM

23 April 2018 - 5:00pm

  • HSBC’s annual general meeting on Friday was attended by activists from War on Want and Palestine Solidarity Campaign, asking the bank about its business dealings with companies selling weapons and military equipment to Israel
  • Over a quarter of questions asked at the AGM were about the bank’s complicity in human rights violations against Palestinians. Several referenced the bank’s criminal complicity in other abuses

Show McSolidarity this International Workers Day

19 April 2018 - 4:30pm

The McStrike is back and bigger than before. We’ve put together the following list of actions so you can show your McSolidarity. 

HSBC faces protest for profiting from human rights abuses

17 April 2018 - 11:45am

HSBC is a major shareholder in companies which supply weapons and military equipment to Israel, which uses extensive and often lethal military against Palestinians, including the recent killing of unarmed protesters in the Gaza Strip.
 
Over 18,000 people around the UK have contacted HSBC Group Chief Executive John Flint, expressing their concerns on this issue, and HSBC branches in over 20 locations across the UK have been the focus of regular protests and pickets.
 

Spring edition of Up Front out now: Why we won't be silenced

11 April 2018 - 3:15pm

War on Want’s values and our mission are the same today as when we were founded: to be a radical and fearless force for equality and social justice.

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