Garment Workers: Paying the price of the pandemic
A webinar discussing the fight for garment workers rights in light of the recent establishment of the International accord.
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Taxing extreme wealth for fairer, greener societies
The UK government must join global efforts to coordinate wealth taxes and urgently tax those with more than £10 million in assets.
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Israel’s illegal settlements destroy Palestinian homes, lives and rights
Not only is this illegal, systematically violating the rights of the Palestinian people causes devastating harm.
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Global Green New Deal: 10 interventions to transform our world
The world is in crisis. Only a just transition to societies rooted in equality and harmony with our planet – through a Global Green New Deal – can ensure dignified lives for all.
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Make Amazon Pay
Amazon is amassing power in ways that threaten a future of inequality, poverty and irreversible climate change.
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Policing Bill: why we're standing up for the right to protest
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.
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Rana Plaza Never Again
War on Want joins with trade unions in Bangladesh and the Clean Clothes Campaign to demand that the Rana Plaza disaster never happens again.
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Why union-busting must go out of fashion at Next
Garment workers at a Next-owned factory in Sri Lanka have formed a trade union. Next has not accepted the union and won't engage in negotiations.
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'Judge, Jury, and Occupier' report: questions & answers
Why focus on Israel’s military courts?
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Myanmar coup: Brands must respect the workers’ strike
War on Want and 16 other organisations stand in solidarity with the workers in Myanmar
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Seventy years fighting against global poverty
Labour Research magazine covers our 70th anniversary
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Next UK reports huge profits yet denies Sri Lankan garment workers their ‘bonus’
‘Bonus’ pays for basic necessities garment workers cannot afford with their poverty wages
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Multi-millionaire garment brand owners once again fail their workers
War on Want and Labour Behind the Label joint statement on Arcadia
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Garment workers on the frontline of the pandemic: outbreak in Sri Lanka
Over 1,000 Covid-19 cases at a Brandix factory in Sri Lanka