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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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TAGS: 267.Campaigning news, 263.News, 260.Private Sector
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Goldcorp staff face criminal charges over mine pollution after CAFOD investigation
Authorities in Honduras last week filed criminal charges against senior officials of Entremares based on evidence from aid agency CAFOD of severe water contamination.
Related Article: Unearth Justice Campaign: tough action on pollution>>
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Mining giant BHP Billiton pulls out of disputed Philippine project
Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton has cut ties with a controversial nickel mining project on a Philippine island community, but CAFOD continues call for new consent process.
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Amendments to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill to safeguard justice for victims of corporate human rights abuses in developing countries were narrowly defeated in the House of Lords yesterday. Crossbench peers had argued that an exemption was needed to make sure than poor communities harmed by UK-based companies could still afford to bring cases to court.
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TAGS: 302.Human Rights, 282.media, 263.News, 328.Press release
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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: 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.
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TAGS: 287.Extractives, 218.Peru, 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: 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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More than 2,000 people, including 250 children, pregnant women, older and disabled people, are facing being thrown out of their homes onto the streets of Sao Paulo following a court ruling.
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TAGS: 193.Brazil, 263.News, 328.Press release
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Press release: Faith leaders need to show the way in fighting HIV and AIDS stigma
This week CAFOD and three of its partners from Ethiopia, Uganda and Mexico will join hundreds of global faith leaders at the Washington DC Global HIV and AIDS conference.
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TAGS: 170.HIV and AIDS, 263.News, 328.Press release
RELATED TAGS: 328.Press release
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