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Fashioning the future
The global fashion industry, or as we call it in this report, ‘big fashion’, is controlled predominantly by corporate elites in the Global North, and is part and parcel of an economic system designed to maximise profit for the few, at the expense of the live...Image
Profiting from hunger
The industrialised global food system is driving the climate crisis and the impoverishment of millions across the Global South, while making vast profits for a handful of corporate monopolies. Peasants are leading the struggle for an alternative food system ...
Parliamentary Briefing: A Corporate Duty to Prevent Negative Human Rights and Environmental Impacts
We urgently need a new law to hold companies to account when they fail to prevent human rights abuses and environmental harms
UN Binding Treaty Briefing – UK Working Group
UN Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights briefingImage
Challenging Agribusiness and Building Alternatives in Tunisia and Morocco
Working Group on Food Sovereignty in Tunisia and ATTAC Maroc
The SABL Land Grab: Papua New Guinea’s ongoing human rights scandal
This report highlights the devastating impact of Special Agricultural Business Leases (SABL) land grabs on the people of Papua New Guinea. It also shines a spotlight on the ongoing resistance, led by communities and War on Want’s partner, ACT NOW!
BFAWU leaflet #FFS410
"Workers at JD Wetherspoons will take part in strike action on the 4th of October alongside McDonald’s, TGI Fridays and Uber Eats workers. Wetherspoons and McDonald’s workers are striking for £10 an hour, union recognition and respect on the job."
North Africa and West Asia: Voices of Resistance, Struggles for Social Justice
With all the momentous changes unleashed by the Arab uprisings in 2011, the intensification of social struggles and the opening up of new horizons for radical change in the North Africa and West Asia (NAWA) region, War on Want has decided to create a new pro...
Infosheet: Stand With Migrant Workers
Migrant workers across the UK face prejudice, abuse and exploitation. In the wake of Brexit, the call to ‘control our borders’ risks being used to not only restrict freedom of movement but to weaken the rights of migrant workers.