Ukraine is being privatised by stealth under the guise of UK aid
UK elites are cynically trying to profit from the devastation of the proxy war in Ukraine. Using an infamous strategy popular with US imperialism in recent decades, the UK has…
International aid budget quietly cut by Reeves in Autumn Budget
Chancellor Rachel Reeves presented the Labour Party’s first budget since being elected to government on Wednesday 30 October. However, what has not been widely reported is that she slashed the…
Scotland sees protests over lack of legal aid and access to justice
Environmental and human rights campaigners rallied outside the Court of Session, Scotland’s top civil court, on Tuesday 1 October. It was to mark the Scottish Government missing a crucial deadline…
Israel is now blocking 83% of food aid deliveries into Gaza
Israel has intensified its siege of Gaza. 15 aid organisations have delivered a joint report that Israel is blocking 83% of food aid deliveries to the enclave. Israel has long…
UK aid budget set to collapse to 2007 levels unless Labour act
On Wednesday 18 September, over 100 leaders of the UK international development, humanitarian and peacebuilding sector have come together ahead of the Autumn Budget, to urge the Labour Party government…
Israel just bombed ANOTHER aid convoy that it knew was there
An aid convoy that a US charity organised shared its coordinates with Israel. But Israel then used that information to strike the first vehicle in the convoy, killing five people.…
Labour on course to cut foreign aid budget in 2024/25
Projected Labour Party cuts to the UK foreign aid budget will pose challenges to restoring the UK’s role as a responsible development partner. That’s the verdict of a leading NGO…
Israel has targeted yet more aid workers who gave coordinates to it
Israel has repeatedly attacked aid workers in Gaza who had previously shared their coordinates with the state. Aid organisations targeted include World Central Kitchen, Doctors Without Borders, International Rescue Committee,…
FCDO admits a quarter of international aid budget spent in the UK
On Wednesday 10 April the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) published its provisional statistics on how the UK’s international aid budget was spent in 2023. Without irony, the FCDO…
latest attack on aid workers is not the first time it’s done this
NGO World Central Kitchen aid workers were coordinating their journey with Israel and in clearly marked vehicles when the Israeli military murdered them with repeated drone strikes. The Israeli Defence…