War On Want is a campaigning charity based in London, England, which highlights the needs of poverty-stricken areas around the world, lobbying governments and international agencies to tackle problems, as well as raising public awareness of the concerns of developing nations.
The organisation was formed in 1951 after a letter from Victor Gollancz to The Guardian was read by the politician Harold Wilson, who coined the name. Since then the organisation has taken part in countless campaigns and investigations.
War on Want and the GMB general union fear management proposals for a major shake-up in staff operations at the Lutterworth distribution centre in Leicestershire will be rolled out nationwide...
War on Want is encouraging Asda employees in the UK to contact GMB if they wish to find out about their rights or start a union...
One Palestinian partner of War on Want wrote that we have an "inner feeling that we are a expendable people", a feeling replicated by millions across the developing world living in a global system of Apartheid where birthplace and race dictates whether you live with adequate means of survival or in conditions of modern slavery...
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