International Development
The Co-operative Movement is one of the largest organised segments of civil society with over 800 million members, and plays a crucial role across a wide spectrum of human aspiration and need. The Government should work with the Co-operative Movement and its international partners to set up a co-operative agency for international development to help build modern and effective movements in the developing world.
Latest articles on International Development
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Tell David Cameron to Make Food Fair at the G8 Summit (17 Apr 2013)
During Fairtrade Fortnight, the Make Food Fair campaign was launched by the Fairtrade Foundation. Smallholder farmers produce the majority of the world’s food, but they also make up half of the world’s hungriest people. Many rely on co-operatives to help them get their food to market. The G8 summit this June takes place in the [...]
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Another Tory MP thwarts Private Members’ Bill that has cross-party support (8 Mar 2013)
Labour & Co-operative MP Mark Hendrick’s Private Members’ Bill sought to enshrine in law the cross-party commitment to spend 0.7 percent of gross national income on official development assistance. The Bill was initially up for second reading on 13th July 2012 but was objected to by a Tory MP. It was rescheduled for 1st March [...]
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Mark Hendrick MP: The people snared in poverty’s grip can’t afford inaction (20 Jun 2012)
Labour & Co-operative MP Mark Hendrick explains why he has put forward a private members’ bill to enshrine 0.7% of GNI to international aid in law, a key aim of the international development and co-operative movements. The world is in a state of constant change; reshaping economies, new governments forming but the one constant, the [...]
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Once again it falls to Labour to provide leadership – Mark Hendrick MP to table Private Member’s Bill on 0.7% (19 Jun 2012)
With Cameron and Mitchell delaying legislation to enshrine the 0.7% aid target yet again – this time by three more years – it has once again fallen to Labour and Co-operative MPs to provide leadership. The Coalition ‘Programme for Government’ agreed in 2010 that it would match Labour’s pledge to pass legislation committing the UK [...]
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Event: Commodity trading & food prices with Chris Leslie MP (24 May 2012)
The Co-operative Party and the Labour Campaign for International Development are co-hosting this event on the transparency of commodity trading, food speculation and the price of food. In a world where a billion people do not have enough to eat, we need to sort out the broken global food system. Spikes in the price of food [...]
