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Event: Bicentenary of Latin American Independence Festival
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On Saturday 14 August, DLA Rhythms will celebrate the bicentenary of Latin American independence with an exciting array of artists and performers from across the continent. -
Despite increase in salary, Bangladeshi garment workers still denied living wage
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The proposed in increase in Bangladesh's minimum wage has been criticised as insufficient by the National Garment Workers' Federation (NGWF), a leading Bangladeshi trade union and War on Want partner. ... -
New report from Stop the Wall documents crackdown on Palestinian activists
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To mark the sixth anniversary of the International Court of Justice advisory opinion declaring the Wall to be illegal, Stop the Wall has released a new report on the crackdown of Palestinian activists ... -
Kick out World Cup poverty call reaches High Commission
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As part of its drive to end evictions in poor South African settlements, today War on Want campaigners presented a letter signed by over a thousand supporters to the South African High Commission in London. ... -
‘Halt World Cup evictions’ call
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Campaigners today will step up pressure on the South African government to stop the evictions of poor people which increased in the build up to the World Cup. -
Honduras update: one year after the coup, the resistance continues
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It's been over a year since the coup in Honduras, which saw the removal from power of the democratically elected president Manuel Zelaya. In the weeks and months following the coup, numerous human rights ... -
Factsheet: Landless Workers' Movement (MST)
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Since 2003 War on Want has been a proud support of the Landless Workers' Movement (MST), the leading campaign group for the progressive redistribution of land in Brazil. The largest social movement in ... -
Spain reign, but what impact has the World Cup left on South Africa?
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So, today, after a final encounter in Soweto's Soccer City stadium, Spain bask in the glory of winning the World Cup for the first time. -
Video: South African activist Ashraf Cassiem on the World Cup
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This Sunday the whole world will be watching the final of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The first ever World Cup held on South African soil, the tournament was a landmark event for Africa. But thousands ... -
Write to the High Commissioner to demand justice for South Africa's poor
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Host of the 2010 World Cup, South Africa has spent a record $4.1 billion on tournament preparations. But the plight of the country's poor has grown worse in the lead-up to the tournament. Many thousands ... -
Thousands of homes destroyed in blaze near World Cup site
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This weekend in Kennedy Road, a settlement located in Durban just a few miles from where Germany and Spain will meet for the World Cup semi-finals, 3,000 people saw their homes destroyed by a fire. The ... -
With critical decision looming, NGWF steps up its campaign for a living wage
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On 28 July, Bangladesh's national wage board will decide whether or not to increase the minimum salary of country's garment workers. -
A World Cup for all – introducing the Poor People's World Cup
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South Africa is a country of opposites. On the one hand, there is the wealth, affluence and beauty that has flooded the media in the build up to the World Cup. And on the other, there the over ... -
Who's going to win the World Cup?
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Last Thursday's event 'Who's going to win the World Cup?' drew in over a hundred people eager to discuss the social, political and economic impacts of the World Cup on South Africa. -
Film: Kick out World Cup poverty!
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Host of the 2010 World Cup, South Africa has spent $4.1 billion on tournament preparations. But the plight of the country's poor has grown worse in the lead-up to the World Cup. A new film from War ... -
Brazilian anti-GMO campaign group to appear on leading news show
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Tonight Globo News, a leading Brazilian news programme, will broadcast a special feature on genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The program will include interviews with Gabriel Bianconi Fernandes, a ... -
‘Kick out World Cup poverty’ call
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As World Cup host South Africa starts the tournament against Mexico today, the charity War on Want launches a new film which contrasts the huge sums spent by the South African government with growing poverty ... -
Bangladeshi garment workers fight for increase in the national minimum wage
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War on Want partner the National Garment Workers' Federation (NGWF) led a rally of Bangladeshi garment workers in Dhaka last week. -
Israeli killing of human rights activists condemned
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War on Want's statement on Israeli killing of human rights activists aboard the Freedom Flotilla -
War on Want demands justice for the Kennedy 12
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On 14 May, 12 people, known as the Kennedy 12, made their 11th appearance in court in the eight months since their arrest in September 2009 following the Kennedy Road attacks. These attacks, which left ...
