News and Analysis

While 2022 has been a year of growing repression, worsening economic crisis and climate breakdown, War on Want’s partners, supporters and allies have continued to fight against the root causes of global inequality and injustice. 2022 has also been a year of resistance, unity, and struggle.

The UK and other rich industrialised Global North countries must take responsibility for fuelling the climate crisis by paying climate reparations to countries in the Global South.  

Rockhopper successfully sued Italy for £210 million over Italy’s law banning coastal oil drilling, using the ECT and ISDS.

How will Colombia’s new Pacto Historico government, headed by Gustavo Petro and Francia Marquez translate their radical climate justice platform into policy?

Sri Lanka's severe political and financial crisis means millions are unable to afford food. This is a crisis driven by international debt.

The plans to modernise the Energy Charter Treaty are corporate greenwashing. The UK governments arguments for modernisation instead of abolition aren't logical from a climate justice perspective.

Decent work and a living wage are not only basic rights, but a key route out of poverty. Through organising, the collective voice of workers has won rights and decent work for millions of people.

The Maricunga salt flats, in the heart of Chile’s Atacama Desert, are under threat from lithium mega-mining. Communities fighting back are on the frontline of the fight for just transition and climate justice.

Our new report ‘Secrets and Fries’ exposes how McDonald’s has been driving billions in global profits through the City of London, but not stopping to pay its share of UK tax.

A waiver would remove a huge barrier preventing poorer countries from protecting their people.

For over 70 years, the state of Israel has subjected the Palestinian people to its brutal regime of control.

Tackling the climate crisis requires a radical transformation of our societies and economies, but our trade rules stand in the way.