People take part in a War on Want, Greenpeace and Oxfam-led protest outside HM Treasury, London, ahead of the Chancellor's spring statement, demanding taxes on the 'super-rich,' March 25, 2025
HUMAN rights charity War on Want has appointed the feminist social justice campaigner Liz McKean as its new executive director.
Ms McKean has served as the charity’s director of campaigns, policy and international programmes for the past eight years and has previously worked for Amnesty International UK.
She is also a founder of the UK End Violence Against Women Coalition and has said she will bring to her role “leadership that’s rooted in transformative feminist principles.”
Ms McKean said she will continue to build on War on Want’s “powerful and radical history of justice campaigns,” citing its work against “apartheid and occupations, standing up for workers’ rights and for climate and economic justice.”
She renewed the charity’s commitment to rejecting the “cliques of political leaders and billionaires” who plot to “shore up their own power by peddling fear and division.”
Ms McKean added: “Under the banner of a global Green New Deal, we will push for measures to tax the super-rich whose obscene levels of wealth give them undue influence over our democracies.”
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