"All of my belongings are destroyed. There is no shelter for us, so we have been sleeping on the roadside." "More than 600 people lost their lives and another 1.5 million people were forced to flee their homes." bbc.com/news/world-afr…

Today I asked the Development Minister why our support to people with disabilities is dropping International Development Committee

BREAKING: #Pfizer has just announced a record $100 BILLION in revenue for 2022. That’s more than the total health expenditure of 100 countries combined. If Pfizer were a country, it would be in the wealthiest third of nation-states. #EndCOVIDmonopolies peoplesvaccine.org/resources/medi…

Unfortunate backdrop Rishi Sunak - looks like a #FossilFuel installation- soon becoming a #strandedasset with need to meet requirements of #ClimateAct Have a word with Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps and #StopRosebank- #LevelUp with cheaper #renewables

‘Covid may have subsided but the real enemy of health has survived: a patent system that keeps medicine recipes secret, a trade system that allows corporations to price drugs out of reach… if we want better, we are going to have to build it ourselves’ 👏aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/…

Private lenders have charged countries in Africa 7 to 10 percent interest - tim-jones6.bsky.social of Debt Justice said “It is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The lenders claim that the loans are risky, but because they charge high interest rates, that creates the risk” foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/01/afr…

Forced installation of prepayment meters to end debtjustice.org.uk/news/ofgem-tel… "A significant step to fixing our broken energy system where households pushed into energy debt are at risk from traumatic bailiff action and disconnection." - @JoeCoxEastLDN Senior Researcher Debt Justice

Hmmm.... Commendable frankness! Would that things were different and .UK aid meant "what it say on the tin". And would that other members of #HMG were as transparent! Andrew Mitchell

Watch @CommonsIntTrade on parliamentlive.tv on Weds. pm. this week! Global Justice Now and DebtJustice.bsky.social have misgivings about British International Investment. Will it be another ECGD scam serving the rich or bring irrefutable benefits for poor people?

Thanks to @Afzal4Gorton for organising a constituency discussion on #HumanRights and his echoing DebtJustice.bsky.social's call for action on #EnergyDebt as a contribution to the #DebtCrisis.

Boobed in leaving clip boards with #EnergyDebt petition sheets @ home when attending @Afzal4Gorton's discussion on #HumanRights but distributed DebtJustice.bsky.social's Drop It!s & got pics supporting #RightToProtest .

AFTINET submission to the Review of ISDS in the Australia-NZ-ASEAN free trade agreement urged the removal of ISDS provisions from existing agreements. aftinet.org.au/.../AFTINET-su…

"This bill is an attack on democracy within parliament. Rather than taking back control, they are taking away parliament's sovereign power to vote for or against laws... We need to cut our losses and rejoin the EU." Jenny Jones

Cystic fibrosis drug maker Vertex Pharmaceuticals is not selling its medicine in the developing world "or allowing a local company to make it." As a result, people are dying. FFS. Break the monopolies. Support Just Treatment 💊 nytimes.com/2023/02/07/hea…

Many thanks to @Afzal4Gorton for speaking out in #Parliament on essential need for #bees & #pollinators threatened by #pesticides esp.#neonicotinoides. (see 10.02) #MANCHESTER Manchester Cathedral Defra UK #Environment parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/bb…

This is well worth a trip to London for - speakers from Brazil, Kenya, India and France on a subject that needs urgent attention! globaljustice.org.uk/event/resistin…