Social Justice
Unions worry this ‘rushed’ UK trade deal could undermine labour standards in east Africa
The UK government is pushing through trade deals before the Brexit transition period ends. But at what cost?
Kenya
David Cairns: 1966-2011
David Cairns, Labour MP for Inverclyde, has passed away. He was only 44. He was a former VSO Parliamentarian volunteer in Kenya (2010); here is an eye-opening, heartbreaking, first-hand account of his time in Kenya.
Why Britain owes Kenya an apology
Keiran Roberts reports on the tragic and terrible history behind the Mau Mau rebellion and why the British government is wrong for not apologising.
Kenya’s fight against childhood mortality
Jim Dobbin MP, chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Global Action Against Childhood Pneumonia, writes about his visit to Kenya to attend the global roll-out of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
Revealed: The shocking conditions of Kenyan & Indian tea plantation workers
Research published by War on Want today reveals that tea workers in northern India earn just £15.45 (1,220 rupees) a month, compared to a living wage of at least 3,500 rupees (£44.34) a month.