Lisa Nandy MP and John McDonnell MP called yesterday for the British Government’s Financial Services Bill to be amended so that companies wishing to list on UK Stock Exchanges would need to report on their …
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Secret mining in the Congo: Integrity of the UK aid programme & the IMF at stake
Press statement from the office of Pauline Latham OBE MP, Member of the International Development Select Committee, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Extractive Industries
23/05/2012
Secret mining in the Congo: …
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Nuclear news
Keswick says No to nuke dump
Following a public outcry, Keswick Town Council voted 9 to 3 to say NO to going any further along in the plan for a nuclear dump. At a previous …
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Gold miners call British firm to account
Anglo American is being taken to court for not protecting its workers in South Africa from dangerous dust.
More than a thousand former miners from South Africa are bringing a case against Anglo American through …
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Global justice under threat from Legal Aid plans
The UK government is proposing to change the system so that lawyers’ success fees and the insurance premiums would be paid out of the damages awarded to the victim instead of being paid by the …
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Profiting from ‘peanuts’: the DFID’s new plans in India
There has been a predictably indignant reaction to the news that Indian ministers wanted to stop British aid to the country and only allowed it to continue after the Department for International Development begged them. …
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Legal aid bill is “cack-handed attempt to change the legal system to benefit large corporations when they are being sued”
Author: John Prescott in Guardian (UK); Catholic Overseas Development Agency (CAFOD)
First test of UK’s commitment to UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights will be whether it amends Legal Aid bill, says CAFOD…
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Defeat for Mandelson’s billionaire as judge backs the Mail over story of Rothschild and the Russian oligarch
Billionaire financier Nat Rothschild exposed his friend Peter Mandelson to accusations of a conflict of interest while the Labour peer was an EU trade commissioner, the High Court has ruled. The Swiss-based hedge-fund manager had …
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Campaigners mount bid to outlaw Nuclear Subsidies
Lawyers acting on behalf of British anti-nuclear campaigners have submitted a complaint about atomic subsidies to the European Commission which, if upheld, could prevent the building of new nuclear reactors in the EU. “Nuclear power …
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UK secretly helping Canada push its oil sands project
The UK government has been giving secret support at the very highest levels to Canada’s campaign against European penalties on its highly polluting tar sands fuel, the Guardian can reveal.
At the same time, the …
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The hidden human cost of the 2012 Olympic medals
For the elite athletes of the world it’s a moment to dream of – standing on the podium to be crowned an Olympic champion. In all, 4,700 medals will be draped around the necks of …
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