Marienna Pope-Weidemann

Five years after Rana Plaza, Bangladeshi garment workers are fighting for justice and dignity at work

The Rana Plaza collapse claimed over a thousand lives - and showed management contempt for the safety of workers. Marienna Pope-Weidemann reports on the struggle for better conditions for garment workers in Bangladesh.

HSBC: Put your money where your mouth is on human rights

Time to up the heat on HSBC, writes Marienna Pope-Weidemann, as War on Want call on the bank to stop arming Israel.

“From garment factories to rural communities, women are the resistance.”

Meet the women activists from around the world taking up the fight for social justice. By Marienna Pope-Weidemann from War on Want.

A very modern apartheid

Marienna Pope-Weidemann explains why decades of occupation and oppression have led some people to call Israel an apartheid state.

To really take back control, we need to democratise our trade deals

Trade deals effect every area of our lives - from our public services to the water we drink to the air we breathe. Marienna Pope-Weidemann from War on Want argues that we need greater public scrutiny over potentially disastrous post-Brexit trade deals.

Big, bold and migrant led: an interview with the New Sanctuary Movement

In the first of a series of interviews with migrants' rights and racial justice activists from the US, Marienna Pope-Weidemann speaks to Peter Pedemonti, co-founder and director of the New Sanctuary Movement in Philadelphia

The EU-Turkey deal is a disaster for refugees

In making a deal with Turkey, the EU is entrusting refugees to a government that cares little for their safety – and sponsors the terrorists they are fleeing from, writes Marienna Pope-Weidemann

‘I could kill you here and no one would care’: The refugees at the sharp end of Europe’s borders

Marienna Pope-Weidemann reports from Lesbos on the dangers faced by refugees as they struggle through a system that puts border control before human life