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Tea Time for change: the most important cuppa of the year!
On June 9th, 131 MPs sat down over a cup of tea with their constituents in Westminster. The lobbyists were calling for commitments on aid, transparency and the Robin Hood Tax.
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TAGS: 165.Aid, 267.Campaigning news, 175.Climate change and environment, 263.News, 28.Robin Hood Tax
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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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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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Cambodia: Help starts from love
Meet Phalla and her family, whose committment to helping children with no family and no home is helping to pioneer the way for others – with the support of CAFOD partner Maryknoll
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Haiti: new homes that will withstand disasters
Like millions of others, Celina Traesil lost everything in the earthquake that devastated Haiti two years ago. Today, thanks to you, she’s about to move into her new home.
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TAGS: 265.Emergency news, 204.Haiti, 263.News
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Kenya: Drought hits Cattle Mountains
“Food aid has ensured our survival," says Le Patina Lentokoko. "But the food is limited... The drought will continue, but if there is no rain by September, people will die.”
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Learning lessons about HIV and health
The Mutomo clinic tackles HIV in Kenya, but the struggle for food and basic healthcare affects patients' ability to take life-saving drugs, as Paul Kwaluma discovered
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Rio +20: Minister pays tribute to ‘vital role of churches’
Over a hundred people gathered in Methodist Central Hall, Westminster, to hear from a panel including CAFOD partners Nanette Antequisa from the Philippines and Caroline Spelman MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
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TAGS: 17.Campaigning, 267.Campaigning news, 239.Faith, 127.Rio
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Chris Bain responds to the Queen’s Speech
The Government has dropped its plans to introduce legislation in the new Parliamentary session to guarantee the spending of 0.7 per cent of national income on aid to the poorest countries. The Government did however reiterate its firm plans to reach the 0.7 per cent spending target by 2013.
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CAFOD director Chris Bain explains why, wherever we put our cross on the ballot paper this election, we must look for a vision of a future based on the common good.
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