News and Analysis

A webinar discussing the fight for garment workers rights in light of the recent establishment of the International accord.

Corporations are co-opting the language of peasants' and environmental movements to press their agenda of profit over people and planet.

Why do we refer to Israel as an apartheid state?

The UN Food Systems Summit 2021 will achieve nothing meaningful while its agenda is shaped, and its language defined, by the very corporations that have engineered our current — broken — food systems.

Corporate courts, facilitated by the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), are enriching fossil fuel companies at the expense of climate action.

We face a clear choice: continue tweaking the same failing global systems, or reimagine the world where the principles of protecting people and the planet come first.

Amazon is amassing power in ways that threaten a future of inequality, poverty and irreversible climate change.

Stop the attacks on Palestinian rights.

The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill poses a dangerous threat to all of our rights. The right to assemble, which allows us to peacefully protest, is vital to any democratic society.

War on Want joins with trade unions in Bangladesh and the Clean Clothes Campaign to demand that the Rana Plaza disaster never happens again.

Why we must abolish secret corporate courts before they destroy the planet.

The global food system is in crisis. The reason? Food being treated as just another commodity to be traded, rather than as a fundamental human right. The scale of hunger and malnutrition across the world today is the direct result of our global economy in which hundreds of millions of small farmers, fisherfolk, pastoralists and indigenous people face ruin - because of the hijacking of the food system by large corporate agribusiness and food retailers.