John Hilary, Executive Director, War on Want

I was one of the 2,000 passengers stuck on the Eurostar outside Calais on Tuesday night, as the refugee crisis forced its way onto Europe’s front pages. Contrary to media reports of passengers being prepared to smash windows in anger, the people in my carriage remained quiet throughout the five hours we were held in the dark outside the tunnel.

War on Want's partner, the Movement of Women Babaçu Breakers (MIQCB) in Brazil put at risk due to agro-industry expansion.

The Guardian reports the struggle of thousands of women to attain “title to land and babassu, laws permitting free access to babassu on private land in some regions to be respected, and a law permitting free access to babassu on private land nationwide to be passed"