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Hands Off Iraqi Oil demo, 2008. Activists dressed as oil industry workers are outside of a Shell building, with a model of an oil drilling rig labelled "Iraqi oil", in front of a large caricature model labelled "Chaney".

Chilcot report: The heavy legacy of the Iraq war

History cannot be undone

05 July 2016

Protestors hold Palestine flags and a large banner that says "G4S: Human Rights Abusers out of our city".

G4S reneges on promise to exit Israel

A common thread runs through all G4S work: profiting from violence and abuse.

31 May 2016

A map showing the partition of land under the Sykes-Picot Treaty. Image: Royal Geographical Society

The Sykes-Picot legacy, 100 years on

The British people who need reminding of the human cost of our interventions

11 May 2016

Stop the diversion of the Arroyo Stream in La Guajira, Colombia

Samuel Arrogoces has pleaded with the world for support so that the stream is not diverted

29 April 2016

Berta Caceres. Photo Credit: COPINH

Indigenous rights leader Berta Cáceres assassinated in Honduras

We call on the Honduran government to bring the assassins to justice

04 March 2016

Gilberto Torres with theatrical group 'BP or not BP?' inside the British Museum. Photo credit: Tom Lebert

“They’d kill me if I went back to Colombia”

Gilberto Torres was kidnapped and tortured by paramilitaries in 2002

02 March 2016

A War on Want campaigner at a demonstration holds a placard that has an image of G4S CEO Ashley Almanza's face with the words "Still silent on child torture" over his mouth, and #StopG4S in the top-right corner. Credit: War on Want

Fuelling violence: G4S's 'red doors policy' is wholly in character

Fuelling violence against asylum seekers is indefensible

26 January 2016

Global Frontline Bloc representing indigenous people at the London Climate March on 29 November 2015. Photo by Tom Lebert.

Injustice and conflict in the Paris climate deal

System change is more urgent than ever

15 December 2015

A demonstration in which many people are holding "Don't Bomb Syria" placards, and one placard says "We are many".

Don't Bomb Syria

We call on UK MPs not to vote for the bombing of Syria.

02 December 2015

We remember the Ogoni Nine

20 years and still no justice

09 November 2015

Israeli settlements in Palestine. Credit: Jaime Jover

Israeli settler violence is Israeli state violence

And the UK is complicit

13 August 2015

Glencore’s exit from the Philippines

Glencore has sold its shares of the gold-copper Tampakan mine after about five years

14 July 2015