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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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We work with poor and disadvantaged communities in the global South to overcome poverty and bring about sustainable development and well-being.
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UN's Yvo de Boer says NGO work on climate talks has been "incredible"
In an exclusive interview with CAFOD, outgoing UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer spoke of the "incredible" work of NGOs and faith-based organisations on climate change.
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CAFOD calls on mining giant AngloGold Ashanti to share its contract with local community
CAFOD welcomes the news that the review of mining company AngloGold Ashanti’s contract in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been concluded, but calls for this contract to be shared with the local community. Press release in English or French
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Market stall quadruples family income
Caritas Bangladesh has been working with women in Sobeda market in the Khulna region of Bangladesh to improve their livelihoods and income generation for over three years.
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International Women's Day celebration
Share this opening ritual for the International Women's Day Celebration in the Philippines
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Mining giant BHP Billiton pulls out of disputed Philippine project
Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton has cut ties with a controversial nickel mining project on a Philippine island community, but CAFOD continues call for new consent process.
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Press release: Bishops from across continents walk in solidarity against water poverty
In an image released to mark World Water Day (March 22) bishops from the UK and Zimbabwe walk in support of CAFOD’s Thirst for Change campaign to end water poverty.
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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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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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