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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.

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.

The Comprehensive Spending Review: CAFOD’s response

CAFOD welcomes today’s historic announcement, which reconfirms the UK Government’s commitment to spend 0.7% of national income on aid from 2013.

Queen's Speech: Our response on aid

The Government intends to honour its promises to the world's poorest people, even in these difficult economic times - but no legislation was introduced to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on aid.

Millennium development goals

Materials explaining what the millennium development goals (MDGs) are and why they are important, as part of CAFOD's ongoing Sharing our World resource.