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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.

06 June 2025

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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.

17 April 2025

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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.

03 October 2025

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Refugee camps near the city of Tindouf in the Algerian desert. Photo credit: War on Want

Western Sahara: Resistance in exile

Saharawi refugees cling to the hope

25 April 2017

Berta Caceres. Photo Credit: COPINH

Getting away with murder: the case of Berta Caceres

We remember her life and join the global call for justice

02 March 2017

#SportsDirectShame: Turning tragedy into change for migrant workers

Now is the time to demand an end to precarious contracts

02 September 2016

War on Want partner Free Trade Zones & General Services Employees Union (FTZ&GSEU)

Sri Lanka’s garment workers: paying a high price for cheap clothes

Women pay a high price for making the cheap clothes sold on the UK high street

15 August 2016

Protesters with a "UK Stop Arming Israel" sign. Credit: Rich Wiles.

Stop Arming Israel campaigners give Elbit a run for its money

Israeli arms company Elbit Systems announced that it is poised to expand in the UK

27 July 2016

A protestor holds a placard that says 'End Precarious Contracts' outside of a Sports Direct store in Hackney. Credit: War on Want.

Stand With Migrant Workers: End Precarious Contracts

Migrant workers across the UK face racism, abuse and exploitation

19 July 2016

Hands Off Iraqi Oil demo, 2008. Activists dressed as oil industry workers are outside of a Shell building, with a model of an oil drilling rig labelled "Iraqi oil", in front of a large caricature model labelled "Chaney".

Chilcot report: The heavy legacy of the Iraq war

History cannot be undone

05 July 2016

Protestors hold Palestine flags and a large banner that says "G4S: Human Rights Abusers out of our city".

G4S reneges on promise to exit Israel

A common thread runs through all G4S work: profiting from violence and abuse.

31 May 2016

A map showing the partition of land under the Sykes-Picot Treaty. Image: Royal Geographical Society

The Sykes-Picot legacy, 100 years on

The British people who need reminding of the human cost of our interventions

11 May 2016

Women workers who are members of Codemuh take part in a street demonstration, wearing purple and holding purple balloons.

International Women’s Day 2016: Fighting for justice

International Women’s Day 2016 comes only days after the brutal murder of Berta Cáceres

08 March 2016

Berta Caceres. Photo Credit: COPINH

Indigenous rights leader Berta Cáceres assassinated in Honduras

We call on the Honduran government to bring the assassins to justice

04 March 2016

Gilberto Torres with theatrical group 'BP or not BP?' inside the British Museum. Photo credit: Tom Lebert

“They’d kill me if I went back to Colombia”

Gilberto Torres was kidnapped and tortured by paramilitaries in 2002

02 March 2016