Responding to reports of worker exploitation behind the production of Comic Relief and Spice Girls t-shirts, War on Want’s Executive Director, Asad Rehman, said:

·    Parliamentary trade committee says current trade negotiation procedures are ‘insufficient’ to secure public trust.

·    Committee calls for parliament to have a vote on trade deals.

·    Committee calls for a ‘presumption of transparency’.

·    Campaigners welcome the drive for Parliament and the public to have a voice on trade, and call for action to be taken to implement this in the Trade Bill, currently going through Parliament.

Responding to the Government’s announcement of the “Good Work Plan”, which implements recommendations arising from the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices, Owen Espley, War on Want’s Senior Economic Justice Campaigner said:

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New Report, 'The SABL Land Grab', exposes the corporate land grab that exploits the land and rights of Papua New Guinea’s indigenous peoples

Private companies are illegally occupying land in Papua New Guinea for logging and palm oil plantations, according to a new report published by War on Want and its partner in Papua New Guinea, Act NOW!.