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Rising to the occasion

The others were his House of Commons speech supporting UN Resolution 1973 on Libya; his contribution at the launch of the ‘Labour Yes to AV’ campaign and his response to George Osborne’s budget. You...

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Fulfilling our responsibility to protect

Utilising both soft and hard power will be central to reconstructing Labour’s foreign policy At Labour’s National Policy Forum in Wrexham this year I was asked whether we see the UK as the ‘world’s...

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Labour’s future in the world

Labour has the chance to restate its case as the internationalist party By Sam Hardy and James Denselow When we began our work examining the future of Labour’s foreign policy in the early spring of...

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DRC should join the Commonwealth

This year 2012, we have the honour and privilege of celebrating the Diamond Jubilee, 60 years since Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as the then Princess Elizabeth succeeded her father King George VI who...

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The intervention dilemma

‘We know why we were left to die. Because there are no resources in Rwanda. Only Rwandans.’ The speaker was a Rwandan politician we visited in 2006. A progressive approach to humanitarian intervention...

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Development dilemmas

Over Labour’s 13 years in office, Britain’s reputation on international development was transformed. Instead of cutting aid, as our predecessors had done, we tripled it. Instead of subsidising British...

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Remembering Rwanda

The risk of genocide across the world remains —This month marks the 20th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. Almost one million people were killed in the space of just 100 days. Kwibuka is the word...

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Never again?

Forty-nine. That’s the number of Syrian deaths not for every word, but every letter, in this column. (The preceding sentence represents 3,577 lives) Twenty years ago, the world watched the Rwandan...

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The price of inaction

In July, when asked how he would deal with Syria’s civil war if he becomes prime minister, Ed Miliband echoed his first speech as Labour leader and responded: ‘One of the ways the party has changed...

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Their rights, our responsibility

It says a lot about humanity, international institutions and individuals that despite our facade of civilisation and modernity, the last three years saw weapons of mass destruction used against...

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