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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.

UK Government called on to help address sexual violence in Colombia

UK agencies warn that despite some advances made by the current Colombian government, significant human rights concerns persist. They are calling on the UK government to raise the issues of conflict-related sexual violence at a United Nations review in Geneva today of human rights in Colombia.

Chancellor agrees ‘moral imperative’ to act on climate justice

In 2011, over 13,000 CAFOD supporters, called on Chancellor George Osborne to champion a Green Climate Fund at the Durban climate change talks. How did he respond and what is the next step for climate justice?

CAFOD at key Cancun climate change talks

Monday 29 November sees the start of a fortnight of United Nations Climate Change Conference talks in Cancun, Mexico. The talks – attended by CAFOD – represent the sixteenth annual meeting of the Conferences of Parties (COP). The Conferences of Parties represent countries across the globe and non-governmental organisations that first convened at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.

CAFOD calls on UK mining company to change its ways as torture case settled out of court

CAFOD is continuing to press for fundamental changes in the behaviour and monitoring of extractive companies in Peru, following recent developments in the case of British mining company, Monterrico Metals.