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CAFOD response to the G8 Summit meeting in Canada
The G8 communique made no mention of the promise made five years ago to Make Poverty History. Cameron needs to deliver for the poor by holding other world leaders accountable for the promises they have made.
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Budget response from CAFOD director Chris Bain - Aid: not goodwill, but a moral imperative
Within George Osborne's Emergency Budget, was some good news. The UK is sticking to its targets on aid, with the Chancellor honouring commitments to the world's poorest people.
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Amendments to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill to safeguard justice for victims of corporate human rights abuses in developing countries were narrowly defeated in the House of Lords yesterday. Crossbench peers had argued that an exemption was needed to make sure than poor communities harmed by UK-based companies could still afford to bring cases to court.
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TAGS: 302.Human Rights, 282.media, 263.News, 328.Press release
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Press release: CAFOD warns Government as 1,000 day countdown begins
Catholic aid agency CAFOD will tell the Government and the United Nations on Good Friday that urgent action is required to agree a new global plan to tackle poverty. Good Friday marks exactly 1,000 days until the start of 2015, when the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agreed a decade ago are due to expire.
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TAGS: 177.Millennium Development Goals, 328.Press release
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Press release: Xstrata mine protests: Aid agency CAFOD welcomes release of Peruvian partners
Two CAFOD partners who had been detained by police whilst investigating human rights abuses near Anglo-Swiss mining company Xstrata‟s new Tintaya site in Peru have been released along with six others. Their arrest on unsubstantiated charges came following complaints of intimidation by local security forces.
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TAGS: 287.Extractives, 218.Peru, 328.Press release
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In a new briefing report launched in the run-up to this year’s G20 summit in Mexico, development agency networks Caritas Internationalis and CIDSE are telling world leaders to act on hunger.
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In the shadow of the Eurozone crisis and elections in Greece, the G20 once again risks squandering the opportunity to deliver long-term structural change that shores up the global economy and improves the lot of poor people
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TAGS: 261.Economic justice, 329.G20
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Press release: Barefoot Torchbearer keeps the Olympic Flame alive
An Olympic Torchbearer from Consett, County Durham, has decided to donate his torch to a gym for boys and girls living in a slum 8,000 kilometres away in Kenya, who inspired him to run his leg of the Torch Relay barefoot.
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TAGS: 207.Kenya, 330.London 2012, 328.Press release
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Copenhagen: Ready to join with government
We welcome the challenge of working with government in mobilising people on the issue of climate change
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Press release: CAFOD analysis of the Los Cabos final declaration
CAFOD's economics analyst Christina Wella reviews the Los Cabos final declaration
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TAGS: 175.Climate change and environment, 261.Economic justice, 176.Food, 329.G20, 328.Press release
RELATED TAGS: 329.G20, 263.News
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