Resources

Parliamentary Briefing: A Corporate Duty to Prevent Negative Human Rights and Environmental Impacts

We urgently need a new law to hold companies to account when they fail to prevent human rights abuses and environmental harms

UN Binding Treaty Briefing – UK Working Group

UN Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights briefing

The UK's Climate Fair Share Infographic

The UK has spent two centuries growing rich from industrialisation driven by fossil fuels, making it the sixth highest emitter of greenhouse gases of all time and the fifth richest economy in the world.

Los ríos que sangran: Minería británica en América Latina

La expansión de la megaminería británica en América Latina está desplazando comunidades, destruyendo ecosistemas, costando vidas y contaminando nuestro planeta.

Up Front: Defending the Defenders

At War on Want we believe that a just world is possible. As part of our fight against the root causes of poverty and human rights violations, we work directly with inspirational communities, grassroots groups and social movements in the struggle for a better...

Report: A Just(ice) Transition is a Post-Extractive Transition

Centering the extractive frontier in climate justice

The Rivers are Bleeding: British mining in Latin America

The vast expansion of British mega-mining in Latin America is displacing communities, destroying ecosystems, costing lives and polluting our planet.

Media brief: "The Rivers are Bleeding: British Mining in Latin America"

The vast expansion of mega-mining projects in Latin America is displacing indigenous communities, destroying local ecosystems, and costing lives and livelihoods.

North Africa and West Asia: Voices of Resistance, Struggles for Social Justice

With all the momentous changes unleashed by the Arab uprisings in 2011, the intensification of social struggles and the opening up of new horizons for radical change in the North Africa and West Asia (NAWA) region, War on Want has decided to create a new pro...

Eritreans Exploited: UK corporate complicity in human rights abuses

Eritrea is one of the most repressive states in the world: no elections since 1993; a crackdown on press freedom; forced labour; arbitrary arrest and detention without trial; indefinite compulsory military conscription; and sexual violence against women and ...

The New Colonialism: Britain's scramble for Africa's energy and mineral resources

The report reveals the degree to which British companies now control Africa’s key mineral resources, notably gold, platinum, diamonds, copper, oil, gas and coal.