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World Development Movement

  • 1 Jul 2010
    Quakers under pressure over shares in BP

    The national body of British Quakers is facing controversy following the news that it has invested over half a million pounds in the oil company BP.

  • 17 May 2010
    Cameron promises "greenest government ever"

    NGOs and campaigners have given a mixed reaction to the Prime Minister's promise that his administration will be Britain's “greenest government ever”.

  • 13 May 2010
    Vince Cable urged to act on RBS investments

    The new Business Secretary Vince Cable has been urged to act on his view of the banking system by curbing the unethical investments of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).

  • 29 Apr 2010
    Greens outstrip big parties on global development, says WDM

    The World Development Movement has criticised the big parties' policies on global poverty and has rated the Green Party higher than any of the others.

  • 28 Apr 2010
    RBS faces nationwide protests on day of AGM

    The Royal Bank of Scotland is expecting nationwide protests today as human rights, anti-poverty and environmental campaigners gather across the UK on the day of the bank's AGM.

  • 16 Feb 2010
    Bangladeshi and British campaigners unite to fight climate aid offer

    Campaigners in both Bangladesh and Britain are resisting the conditions that the UK government is imposing on a climate finance offer to Bangladesh. UK ministers insist that their aid must be channelled through the World Bank.

  • 20 Oct 2009
    Court blocks challenge over unethical RBS investments

    A High Court judge has blocked an attempt to launch a legal challenge over the government's use of taxpayers' money in Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) investments that harm the environment and undermine human rights.

  • 22 Apr 2009
    WDM analyses green and Brown shoots in UK budget

    Chancellor Alistair Darling's budget reveals the UK government's contradictory green credentials, according to the World Development Movement - which campaigns for global justice and action on the way climate change is hitting the world's poor.

  • 24 Jul 2008
    Desmond Tutu backs UK call for tough action on climate change

    In a video message for the World Development Movement (WDM), Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has backed calls for the British government and its citizens to take tough action on climate change.

  • 21 Oct 2007
    One world to share

    This week (21-28 October 2007) is One World Week - an opportunity for people from a variety of faith backgrounds and none to highlight justice and peace issues arising from the local and the global, as we encounter it on a daily basis.