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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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Take a Step for Fairtrade Fortnight in 2012
The Fairtrade Foundation and CAFOD are challenging people to take a step for Fairtrade Fortnight, 27 February to 11 March 2012. What can you do to make a difference to the lives of farmers in the developing world who grow the products you buy?
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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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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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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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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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Pakistan floods - your questions answered
Your questions answered about our response to the Pakistan floods.
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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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Running water, three meals a day and going to school seemed impossible for many in the Philippines five years ago - but not any more, thanks to CAFOD partner JPIP
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Urgent call for new rules which put morality at heart of financial system
Bishops, business leaders and the Catholic community in England and Wales are all calling for companies to ‘open up their books’ to help prevent corruption and enable poor communities to benefit from the wealth generated by natural resources, such as minerals, oil and gas.
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TAGS: 17.Campaigning, 267.Campaigning news, 287.Extractives, 131.Open up the books, 260.Private Sector, 322.Transparency
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