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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 briefing

The UK's Climate Fair Share Infographic

The UK has spent two centuries growing rich from industrialisation driven by fossil fuels, making it the sixth highest emitter of greenhouse gases of all time and the fifth richest economy in the world.

Challenging Agribusiness and Building Alternatives in Tunisia and Morocco

Working Group on Food Sovereignty in Tunisia and ATTAC Maroc

Los ríos que sangran: Minería británica en América Latina

La expansión de la megaminería británica en América Latina está desplazando comunidades, destruyendo ecosistemas, costando vidas y contaminando nuestro planeta.

Up Front: Defending the Defenders

At War on Want we believe that a just world is possible. As part of our fight against the root causes of poverty and human rights violations, we work directly with inspirational communities, grassroots groups and social movements in the struggle for a better...

Report: A Just(ice) Transition is a Post-Extractive Transition

Centering the extractive frontier in climate justice

War on Want's annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2019

WAR ON WANT'S ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2019  

ISDS files: Lydian v Armenia

Mining company threatened to sue when protestors blockaded a gold mine and government allowed the protest to go ahead

The Rivers are Bleeding: British mining in Latin America

The vast expansion of British mega-mining in Latin America is displacing communities, destroying ecosystems, costing lives and polluting our planet.

ISDS files: Chevron v Ecuador

CASE NAME: CHEVRON V ECUADOR SUMMARY: US oil firm sued Ecuador after compensation ordered for devastating Amazon oil spill STATUS: Chevron won AT STAKE: Undisclosed

Up Front: The Crisis of Inequality

War on Want has always believed that poverty is political: a result of decisions made by powerful governments, corporations, and elites to maintain the status quo for their own benefit. In this edition of Up Front we highlight the crisis of inequality we are...