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In Brazil we're working with indigenous people to protect their rainforest home, supporting homeless families in their struggle to find housing, and helping young people find opportunities for a better life.
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TAGS: 193.Brazil, 316.Latin America & Caribbean, 189.Where we work
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Almost a third of Cambodia’s 14 million people live on less than half a US dollar a day. Spiraling inflation has caused sharp rises in the cost of food, and property investors have forced many poor communities from their homes and land, leaving them with no way to grow food or make a living.
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The DRC is a vast country with immense mineral wealth and natural resources. It is emerging from more than a decade of devastating civil war in which almost four million people died and as many as half a million women and girls have been victims of extreme sexual violence carried out by armed groups.
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TAGS: 197.DR Congo, 167.Peace and conflict, 189.Where we work
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Get clued up: Financial crisis and the Robin Hood Tax
World leaders have backed the Millennium Development Goals to tackle poverty and promised to provide aid to help poor countries address climate change. These serious problems require serious solutions. But where’s the money going to come from?
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TAGS: 187.advocacy, 17.Campaigning, 28.Robin Hood Tax
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Nicaragua is one of the poorest countries in the Western hemisphere, with an estimated 4.3 million people living in poverty. Half the active population is unemployed or underemployed.
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TAGS: 214.Nicaragua, 189.Where we work
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As one of the poorest countries in South America, Paraguay has huge social inequalities – two per cent of the population owns over 85 per cent of land and one in four people lives in poverty.
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CAFOD has worked in Peru since 1968. Our programme has been shaped by two main influences: our relationship with the Catholic Church and the internal conflict of 1980-2000.
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TAGS: 316.Latin America & Caribbean, 218.Peru, 189.Where we work
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Decades of violent conflict between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the government ended in victory for the government forces in May 2009. But the wounds are not yet healed.
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TAGS: 221.Sri Lanka, 189.Where we work
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Twenty years of conflict between the Ugandan government and the armed militia group the Lord’s Resistance Army caused extreme suffering in the north as people fled their homes for crowded camps and were torn apart by the abduction of their children.
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TAGS: 167.Peace and conflict, 226.Uganda, 189.Where we work
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For over 30 years CAFOD has supported programmes in Zimbabwe, predominantly through the Catholic Church working in partnership with Diocesan Caritas branches, Justice and Peace Commissions and other bodies incorporated in the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference.
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