The World Development Movement (WDM) is a membership organisation in the United Kingdom which campaigns on issues of global justice and development in the Global South.
Key to WDM’s mission is to promote democratic alternatives, enliven public debate and attract more members of the public to issues.
It aims to:
- Secure important policy change at national, European and international levels – with especial regard to water justice issues; the conditions attached by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to debt relief.
- Enhance, enlarge and inform the global justice movement through strengthening links between the UK and developing countries.
- Raise public awareness in the UK of the need for fundamental change – from the individual level to those of supra-national institutions.
WDM has a network of local groups as well as individual members, and an office in Edinburgh from which WDM Scotland is run. It participates in international networks such as the Our World is Not for Sale network on trade and corporate globalisation, and the World Social Forum.
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