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Durban climate talks end with insulting deal for world's poorest people
Climate change talks in Durban have ended in extra time with a compromise deal that has seen the greater and common good subsumed by ferocious politicking.
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TAGS: 267.Campaigning news, 263.News
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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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Press release: Barefoot Torchbearer keeps the Olympic Flame alive
An Olympic Torchbearer from Consett, County Durham, has decided to donate his torch to a gym for boys and girls living in a slum 8,000 kilometres away in Kenya, who inspired him to run his leg of the Torch Relay barefoot.
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TAGS: 207.Kenya, 330.London 2012, 328.Press release
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Press release: Consett School sends shoes to Kenya
Children at St Patrick’s Primary School in Consett have donated more than 60 pairs of shoes to children living in the Korogocho Slum in Nairobi, Kenya, after a special visit from the ‘Barefoot Runner’.
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Press release: Barefoot Torchbearer hailed as ‘Olympic Hero’ in Kenya
An Olympic Torchbearer from Consett, County Durham, has been hailed as the first hero of London 2012 after handing over his torch to children in a slum 8,000 kilometres away in Kenya.
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CAFOD demands Government and UN agree new poverty plan
CAFOD today told the Government and the United Nations 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: 263.News, 172.Poverty and wealth, 266.UK News
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CAFOD responds with cautious optimism to DFID’s new Advocacy Fund
A new initiative from the British government should help poorer countries have a stronger voice and a bigger say in future development talks, according to the Department for International Development (DFID).
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Barefoot runner’s Kenya trip proves good for the sole
CAFOD supporter and Great North Run barefoot runner John McBride has gone the extra mile for CAFOD this year after travelling to Kenya with CAFOD where he met the people he is raising money for.
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Barefoot Torchbearer keeps the Olympic Flame alive
The Olympic torch relay took on a new significance as Barefoot Runner John McBride completed his mile - with the torch he is donating to a gym for young people living in poverty in Kenya.
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TAGS: 105.Dioceses, 112.Hexham and Newcastle, 330.London 2012, 263.News, 141.Running event, 137.Sponsored event, 251.Sport, 240.UK, 266.UK News
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Barefoot Torchbearer hailed as Olympic hero in Kenya
Olympic Torchbearer is hailed a London 2012 hero in Kenya.
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TAGS: 105.Dioceses, 112.Hexham and Newcastle, 207.Kenya, 330.London 2012, 263.News, 141.Running event, 137.Sponsored event, 251.Sport, 266.UK News
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