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Fashioning the future
The global fashion industry, or as we call it in this report, ‘big fashion’, is controlled predominantly by corporate elites in the Global North, and is part and parcel of an economic system designed to maximise profit for the few, at the expense of the live...Image
Profiting from hunger
The industrialised global food system is driving the climate crisis and the impoverishment of millions across the Global South, while making vast profits for a handful of corporate monopolies. Peasants are leading the struggle for an alternative food system ...
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 briefingImage
Challenging Agribusiness and Building Alternatives in Tunisia and Morocco
Working Group on Food Sovereignty in Tunisia and ATTAC Maroc
The SABL Land Grab: Papua New Guinea’s ongoing human rights scandal
This report highlights the devastating impact of Special Agricultural Business Leases (SABL) land grabs on the people of Papua New Guinea. It also shines a spotlight on the ongoing resistance, led by communities and War on Want’s partner, ACT NOW!
North Africa and West Asia: Voices of Resistance, Struggles for Social Justice
With all the momentous changes unleashed by the Arab uprisings in 2011, the intensification of social struggles and the opening up of new horizons for radical change in the North Africa and West Asia (NAWA) region, War on Want has decided to create a new pro...
Land conflicts and shady finances
The UK government has a serious case to answer when UK taxpayers’ money ends up in the coffers of a palm oil company linked to land grabs and labour violations in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Image
This Way to Dystopia: Exposing UNIQLO’s Abuse of Chinese Garment Workers
The report exposes the hypocrisy of UNIQLO’s commitment to ‘corporate social responsibility’ and ‘making the world a better place’.
Summary: Food Safety, Agriculture and Regulatory Cooperation in the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
The proposed Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Europe and Canada will have a major impact on food and how it will be regulated. History shows that trade agreements put food safety at risk by harmonizing standards and reducing regulati...