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"Conflict sensitivity" in emergencies
"If you’re trying to help people whose homes are knee-deep in water, your priority is to respond quickly," says CAFOD's Anne Street, “but it’s really important to take the context into account, or you can end up making things worse."
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Heidi Thorsen reflects on why helping communities rebuild after the tsunami is about more than just building houses, and asks what it really means to be someone's neighbour
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Top farmer left in poverty by unfair trade
In 1995, Mr M. Dhanapla, a father-of-three from Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, won a presidential award for the best paddy farmer. Now he has to take other jobs to make ends meet
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Sri Lanka floods affect one million
February 2011: the floods in Sri Lanka haven’t been in the media spotlight in the UK, but they’ve affected more than a million people and forced at least 300,000 to flee their homes.
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50th anniversary celebrations: a day to remember
On Saturday 28 January, over 2,000 CAFOD supporters from around the UK came together to celebrate our 50th Anniversary.
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Sri Lanka: One year after the war
Silvaraja was only 16-years-old when he was abducted by militants on his way home from school in eastern Sri Lanka. A year after the conflict our partners are helping people like him return to a normal life
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CAFOD director Chris Bain explains why, wherever we put our cross on the ballot paper this election, we must look for a vision of a future based on the common good.
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Peace-building in Sri Lanka: a woman’s perspective
“The training has been of immense value, I can now manage my parent’s business. I'm proud to have had the opportunity of discharging my duties as the Manager of the Mini Society to the best of my ability.”
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Sri Lanka: fishworkers block unwanted tourism project
More than 8,000 people living around Negombo Lagoon in Sri Lanka protested on 17 November 2010 against a potentially devastating tourism project
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CAFOD honours humanitarian workers on world's first Humanitarian Day
Thursday 19 August 2010 is the first annual World Humanitarian Day. Here are just three of the many people who make our humanitarian and emergency response work possible
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