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Corporate land grab exploits the land and rights of Papua New Guinea’s indigenous peoples

6 December 2018 - 12:30pm


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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!.

In-work poverty condemned – four million workers in poverty

4 December 2018 - 2:15pm

New research today by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation highlights the increasing number of people in in-work poverty.

AirBnb announces it will remove listings in illegal West Bank settlements

19 November 2018 - 6:00pm

"Airbnb has made the right decision to stop profiting from holiday homes in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank"

University of Leeds announces divestment from three military companies

6 November 2018 - 12:00pm

The University of Leeds announced that it will divest from three military companies complicit in human rights abuse, following up its fossil fuels divestment. 

#NotHim, not now, not ever

30 October 2018 - 3:45pm

To all those movements, activists and marginalised communities in Brazil who have woken up this morning to the nightmare of a Bolsonaro presidency, we send our solidarity and support.

Read our joint statement on the election of Jair Bolsonaro.

The cost of mining in Latin America

23 October 2018 - 1:45pm

According to the UN, we have 12 years to make good on our climate goals. But three gigantic mining corporations continue to extract fossil fuels across Latin America, Marienna Pope-Weidemann and Sebastian Ordoñez Muñoz report.

The original article was published on New Internationalist.

"Lift the Ban" on Asylum Seekers Working

17 October 2018 - 11:45am

War on Want is a part of a coalition of organisations calling on the government to "Lift the Ban" on people seeking asylum working. 

Currently, people seeking asylum in the UK are effectively banned from working, which means they are dependent on asylum support whilst they wait for a decision on their asylum claim. People seeking asylum are given just £5.39 per day to meet all their essential living costs, including food, clothing, toiletries and transport and often the cost of their asylum application.

Indigenous Colombians threatened with death for opposition to mega-mining project as defenders visit UK

16 October 2018 - 11:00am

“Death to all these scum”: threats made by far-right paramilitaries promise to “clean” the region of indigenous Wayúu campaigning against mega-mining projects by UK-listed companies in their ancestral lands. Threats arrive just days before a week of action launches in London to highlight the issue. Delegates have arrived from the United States, Brazil, Chile and Colombia, including Wayúu community leader, Misael Socarras Ipuana.

Fast Food Shut Down FFS410 Report Back

15 October 2018 - 4:45pm

On 4th October 2018 there was an historic co-ordinated strike of hospitality workers. It was named “Fast Food Shutdown 4-10” (#FFS410). Workers in hospitality and food couriers in the gig economy took action across the UK to demand an end to poverty wages and for their right to a union to be respected.

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