People & Planet on the journey to justice
WTO protestors in Seattle
Nottingham student ‘die-in’ protest
P&Pers out in force in 2005 demanding the G7 to Treat AIDS Now!
Democracy and the WTO
To be radical is to look at the root causes of an issue
So if we do truly run radical grassroots campaigns, that demand lasting solutions to world poverty, protect the environment and defend human rights, we thought we should use this web page to add relevant papers to help everyone understand the global perspective.
July 2007 - Advisory group on Campaigning and the Voluntary Sector
People & Planet is at the front-line of a review of UK law regarding campaigning.
- Read the group’s latest report (PDF)
January 2007 - People & Planet Go Green submission to DEFRA
Between November 2006 and January 2007, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) held a consultation “on measures to reduce carbon emissions in large non-energy intensive business and public sector organisations” - including Universities. P&P responded by criticising DEFRA’s proposals for complicated bureaucratic trading schemes, and encouraging them to use mandatory carbon budgets, to make sure universities lead the way in cutting the carbs.
June 2006 - Global Responses to Global Threats, Sustainable Security for the 21st Century
In June 2006 the Oxford Research Group published ‘Global Responses to Global Threats, Sustainable Security for the 21st Century’, in response to 9/11 and the development of the `war on terror´. Its paper shows that this paper shows that international terrorism is actually a relatively minor threat when compared to other more serious global trends, and that current responses to those trends are likely to increase, rather than decrease, the risks of further terrorist attacks.
May 2006 - People & Planet Submission to DFID
In May 2006 six months after the end of the Make Poverty History campaign, the Department for International Development (DFID) consulted UK civil society to help them develop their new strategy on eliminating world poverty. This in turn helped the government create its new White Paper.