Ruth Tanner

Ruth Tanner is Campaigns and Policy Director at War on Want. War on Want fights poverty in developing countries in partnership and solidarity with people affected by globalisation and campaigns against the root causes of global poverty, inequality and injustice.

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Saturday 31 October 2009, 12.15pm Lecture Theatre 2

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