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Fairtrade Fortnight: Over 525,000 steps taken
Thank you to all of you who supported Fairtrade Fortnight, which took place this year from 27 February to 11 March. Read on for the highlights of this year's Fairtrade Fortnight.
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Peru: Thousands march to protect water
Thousands of worried Peruvians have walked 870 kilometres to protest about how government and mining companies have neglected the quality of their water supplies.
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TAGS: 267.Campaigning news, 263.News, 218.Peru, 260.Private Sector, 178.Water
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Open up the books: Keep up the pressure for robust transparency laws
Over 900 of you emailed UK government ministers, telling them why you think it’s important that businesses open up their books, before a crucial EU meeting on 20 February. What happened at the meeting? Why do we still need to keep up the pressure?
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TAGS: 267.Campaigning news, 263.News, 260.Private Sector
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Love truth: open up the books on mineral extraction
On 13 February, CAFOD and other members of the Publish What You Pay coalition called on businesses to 'love truth' and to open up the books as part of a global day of action.
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TAGS: 267.Campaigning news, 263.News, 260.Private Sector
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CAFOD calls on the UK to commit money to the climate fund for developing countries
CAFOD has called on the UK’s Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change to pledge significant funds to the Green Climate Fund at the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Durban.
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TAGS: 17.Campaigning, 267.Campaigning news, 263.News
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Campaigns success as David Cameron calls on the EU to open up the books
CAFOD is delighted that the Prime Minister has spoken out in support of vital legislation requiring oil, gas and mining companies to open up their books on the payments they make to developing countries.
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TAGS: 267.Campaigning news, 263.News, 260.Private Sector
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Climate finance: You asked, the EU listened
In the run up to the international climate change talks in Cancun last year, you took action to demand more information for the world’s poorest. You called on UK Chancellor George Osborne to push the EU to open up about the money pledged to help poor countries cope with climate change. Thanks to your efforts, the EU opened up with a new annual report, the ‘Fast Start Finance Report’. During the Cancun talks, they published the first of these reports, which gave extra details about the €2.2 billion the EU mobilised to combat climate change throughout 2010.
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TAGS: 267.Campaigning news, 175.Climate change and environment, 263.News
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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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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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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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