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Unearth Justice Update – Gold Mining
Many of you may have seen the recent Channel 4 Dispatches programme, ‘The Real Price of Gold’, and so we wanted to update you on our work in relation to mining and how you can help.
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TAGS: 267.Campaigning news, 263.News, 174.Trade and Fairtrade
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Robin Hood Tax debate: Watch it here!
On Tuesday 29 March, St Paul’s Cathedral hosted a debate entitled ‘Should we Bank on the Robin Hood Tax?’ Jointly organised by CAFOD, Tearfund, The Salvation Army and St Paul’s Institute, the debate focused on the extent to which the financial sector has a moral role to play in contributing to the common good.
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TAGS: 267.Campaigning news, 263.News, 28.Robin Hood Tax
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Earlier this year, CAFOD supporters lobbied their MPs on the UK Bribery Act, which faced long delays and fears of dilution as a result of intense corporate lobbying of government.
Now, after months of delay, the government has revealed the Act will finally come into force in July this year – a major triumph in the fight against bribery and corruption and their devastating effects on the world’s poorest people.
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TAGS: 267.Campaigning news, 263.News, 260.Private Sector
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'Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights' published
Following six years’ research and consultation, the United Nations has released a set of ‘Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights’. The ‘Guiding Principles’, led by UN Special Representative John Ruggie, aim to provide for the first time, an authoritative global standard that will ensure businesses respect the human rights of the communities in which they work.
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TAGS: 267.Campaigning news, 263.News, 260.Private Sector, 174.Trade and Fairtrade
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Tell the UK government: "Don't water down the Bribery Act"
On Monday, Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke signalled that the implementation of the Bribery Act would be put on hold due to lobbying by the business community.
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TAGS: 267.Campaigning news, 263.News, 260.Private Sector
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CAFOD at key Cancun climate change talks
Monday 29 November sees the start of a fortnight of United Nations Climate Change Conference talks in Cancun, Mexico. The talks – attended by CAFOD – represent the sixteenth annual meeting of the Conferences of Parties (COP). The Conferences of Parties represent countries across the globe and non-governmental organisations that first convened at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.
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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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G20: One rule for rich, another for poor
CAFOD response to the G20 communique from the London Summit, April 2, 2009
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Put People First: Church unites to join march
Church leaders will join campaigners in London at the front of a march for jobs, justice and climate – ahead of next month’s G20 economic summit
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Climate Justice reflects historic struggles
Ed Miliband says climate change protestors must create movement on scale of anti-apartheid and votes for women
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