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Trade Sanctions Against Israel
The UK must restrict trade and investment with Israel to comply with its legal obligations to deter genocidal acts and to ensure the UK is not aiding Israel’s unlawful occupation of Palestinian territory.
Briefing
Terminating the Colombia-UK Bilateral Investment Treaty
In October 2024, the Colombia-UK Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) reaches the end of its initial ten-year term. The UK and Colombian governments now have the opportunity to work together to terminate the treaty, which is incompatible with human rights, peace, democracy and environmental protection.
Briefing
The UK government must back the UN Tax Convention
Right now, a new, fairer global system for governing tax is being developed within the United Nations. By supporting it, the UK government can tackle international tax dodging, recoup much-needed income for domestic spending, set a level playing field
for British business and restore the UK’s international reputation.
Report
Towards trade justice: Changing trade for a just and sustainable planet
Part two of War on Want's three-part global economy series, exploring how debt, trade and tax contribute to continuing poverty and injustice around the world.
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Profiting from Poverty: The role of debt in the Global Economy
Part one of War on Want's three-part global economy series, exploring how debt, trade and tax contribute to continuing poverty and injustice around the world.
Report
The cost-of-living crisis: How corporate greed turned an ecological crisis into profits for the few
Globally, people are facing multiple and deepening crises. The rising cost of living, poverty, inequality, hunger and a lack of access to Covid-19 vaccines, are combining, amplifying, and come on the back of a climate crisis that is impacting the poorest the most.
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Tax and Climate Justice: Redistributing wealth for people and planet
Part three of War on Want's three-part global economy series, exploring how debt, trade and tax contribute to continuing poverty and injustice around the world.
Briefing
The Energy Charter Treaty - a climate threat
Parliamentary briefing on the ongoing threat of the the Energy Charter Treaty to climate justice.
Briefing
UK-Israel trade deal consultation response
War on Want response to UK-Israel Free Trade Agreement government consultation (signed by 5,475 War on Want supporters)
Report
The ‘Secrets and Fries’ report focuses on a circular, paper transaction by McDonald's that creates a UK tax shelter. This circular transaction could deprive the UK of at least $400 million (£295 million) in public funds over ten years.
Activist Resource
Trade and the Labour movement in the post-pandemic environment
In May 2021 War on Want joined a group of academics, trade unionists and activists from across the globe and convened by labour rights researchers from the universities of Nottingham and Oxford Brookes to explore how the labour movement has approached the challenges presented by ‘free trade’, and how the movement might address current and future challenges in the post-Trump, post-pandemic era.