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UK government accepts complaint over GCM Resources’ Bangladesh coal mine
14 June 2013

British company GCM Resources was dealt a serious blow today as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) agreed to consider complaints regarding severe human rights violations associated with the company’s planned coal mine in Bangladesh. 

African groups reject G8 corporate food plan as ‘colonialism’
3 June 2013

African farmers’ movements and civil society groups have rejected the G8’s New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition as part of a “new wave of colonialism” targeting their food systems for corporate profit.

Champagne bar highlights HSBC bankrolling climate change
24 May 2013

Campaigners set up a ‘Carbon Bubbles champagne bar’ outside of HSBC’s AGM to highlight the bank’s role in financing dirty energy projects.

Barclays AGM: Protestors to target Barclays for gambling on food
24 April 2013

Campaigners from the World Development Movement will protest at Barclays’ AGM tomorrow, accusing the bank of contributing to global hunger through gambling on food prices.

Anglo-American to face protests at AGM over mines in Colombia and South Africa
18 April 2013

British mining giant Anglo-American will face protests at its London AGM on Friday over controversial mining projects in Colombia and South Africa, and the climate impact of its coal extraction. 

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Events

Activist evening with Dorothy Grace Guerrero from Focus on the Global South

Wednesday 19 June, London

An informal gathering in our London office to give people the chance to meet Dorothy and find out about the climate justice campaigning she does.

Food security or food sovereignty: What direction for Europe?

Friday 5 July, Edinburgh 

A debate on how fresh thinking could help Europe tackle global hunger.

Joking for Justice

Thursday 17 October, London

WDM's annual comedy fundraiser returns to the Leicester Square Theatre, featuring Arthur Smith, Ava Vidal, Sara Pascoe and others. 

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Blog

Community energy in west Java

18 June 2013

In west Java, communities are demonstrating how clean energy can be produced to meet their needs and not for the profit of major corporations. This is a story that is being replicated in many regions of Indonesia, in the face of energy access issues and the large scale exploitation of fossil fuel reserves for export.

The G8 is harking back to an era that no longer exists

14 June 2013

The UK hosts the G8 once again next week. In 2005, the Gleneagles Summit was marked as a milestone for international development – with deals on aid and debt relief dominating the headlines. It was meant to hail a brand new era of prosperity for developing countries and the world. Only it didn’t.

Creating a pop-up community garden in Edinburgh to protest corporate takeover of the world food system

12 June 2013

An Edinburgh and Lothians local group member blogs about their pop-up community garden in solidarity with African farmers.

In defiance of the New Alliance

10 June 2013

On Saturday, an interesting sight greeted tourists emerging from Blackfriars station. Outside the imposing offices of corporate giant Unilever, 50 campaigners, growers and community activists from the expanding UK food sovereignty movement had built a pop-up community garden.

Oil City: site-specific theatre perfomances in London

4 June 2013

Find out about the new piece of site specific theatre produced by Platform in London: a spy thriller for the post-Occupy era.

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