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100 major charities launch joint campaign to tackle hunger trap
Hunger and malnutrition in childhood will trap almost a billion young people in poverty by 2025, according to a major new campaign, launched today by Britain’s leading development charities and faith groups. ‘Enough Food for Everyone IF’ is the largest coalition of its kind in the UK since Make Poverty History in 2005.
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Religious orders lobby parliament to call on MPs to end global hunger
Hundreds of members of religious orders, priests and lay associates are preparing to meet their MPs on Wednesday 15 May to push for action on global hunger in a mass lobby organised by CAFOD as part of the Enough Food for Everyone IF campaign.
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Hundreds of members of religious orders gathered Wednesday (May 15) at Westminster to call on MPs to act on global hunger.
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Don’t drop the ball: Over 10,000 cards go to Osborne!
On a seasonally cold Monday morning on 28 November, CAFOD Director, Chris Bain alongside CAFOD supporters and staff came together outside 11 Downing Street to present Don’t Drop the Ball action cards to George Osborne.
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Robin Hood Tax debate: Watch it here!
On Tuesday 29 March, St Paul’s Cathedral hosted a debate entitled ‘Should we Bank on the Robin Hood Tax?’ Jointly organised by CAFOD, Tearfund, The Salvation Army and St Paul’s Institute, the debate focused on the extent to which the financial sector has a moral role to play in contributing to the common good.
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Event: Should we Bank on the Robin Hood Tax?
Join us for an exciting debate in St Paul's Cathedral looking at morality within the financial sector. To what extent do banks have a responsibility to contribute to the common good and if so, is the proposed Robin Hood Tax the solution? With special guests including Evan Davies and Baroness Shirley Williams.
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CAFOD opposes Government plans to cap charity tax relief
In a joint letter to the Daily Telegraph, we have come together with four other leading faith-based organisations to set out opposition to the Government's proposals to cap charity tax relief.
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Deadlock on anti-corruption framework must end
Failure by countries to agree an effective monitoring and review process in Doha next week will perpetuate poverty in the developing world, say more than 100 faith leaders in a letter to the UN Secretary General
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Coalition urges UN to fight corruption
Faith leaders and relief agencies urge UN to fight the corruption that compounds poverty
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Zambia hit the headlines in 2005 when 100% of the debt they owed to G8 countries was cancelled. Now campaigners are worried about new loans taken out by the government to cope with the global financial crisis.
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