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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

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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People in Buenaventura celebrate victory. Photo: Nomadesc

Colombia: a win for people power

The people of Buenaventura took on the government and won

23 June 2017

Activists from Algeria and Morocco talking with one of the agricultural workers in the oasis of Jemna in southern Tunisia about their experience since 2011 and the challenges they are still facing. This was part of an international solidarity caravan to southern Tunisia supported by War on Want in the spring of 2017. Photo Credit: Nadir Bouhmouch

Struggles and stories of resistance in North Africa and West Asia

Highlighting some stories of resistance and social justice struggles

21 June 2017

Getting away with murder: the case of Berta Caceres

We remember her life and join the global call for justice

02 March 2017

DFID’s CDC Bill is ‘shameful’

The government has serious case to answer when UK taxpayers’ money ends up in the coffers of a palm oil company

07 December 2016

Monsanto-Bayer merger won’t hide corporate horrors

The colossus that will arise must not divert attention from the true nature of Monsanto’s food crimes.

14 September 2016

Stop the diversion of the Arroyo Stream in La Guajira, Colombia

Samuel Arrogoces has pleaded with the world for support so that the stream is not diverted

29 April 2016

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

A contaminated water supply in Cajamarca province, northern highlands.

Peru: “Water Yes, Mine No”

This has long been the call of indigenous people in Peru in their fight against Yanacocha

18 December 2015

Global Frontline Bloc representing indigenous people at the London Climate March on 29 November 2015. Photo by Tom Lebert.

Injustice and conflict in the Paris climate deal

System change is more urgent than ever

15 December 2015

We remember the Ogoni Nine

20 years and still no justice

09 November 2015

A green landscape, showing Honduran highlands vegetable production.

Honduran women workers speak out against labour violations

Land and rivers have been polluted with heavy metals such as mercury, cyanide and lead

31 July 2015