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The women of Marikana

Justice for Marikana

38 killings, 5 years, no justice

24 August 2017

An Israeli soldier fires a grenade from a launcher. Credit: War on Want / Rich Wiles

Stop Arming Israel

The UK government is complicit in Israel's continuing violations of human rights and international law

27 July 2017

Bad Company – BP, human rights and corporate crimes

Formal complaint and new report on BP’s human rights record

24 June 2017

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

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

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

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

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