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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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'Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights' published
Following six years’ research and consultation, the United Nations has released a set of ‘Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights’. The ‘Guiding Principles’, led by UN Special Representative John Ruggie, aim to provide for the first time, an authoritative global standard that will ensure businesses respect the human rights of the communities in which they work.
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Bridging the Gap: the European Consensus and Humanitarian Principles (2 MB)
This report uses the European Consensus on Humanitarian Aid (adopted in 2007) as a policy framework to examine adherence to humanitarian principles on the part of the European Union and its Member States.
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Synthesis Report: Review of the engagement of NGOs with the humanitarian reform process. (892 kB)
Based on 5 country mapping studies, this report analyses the state of global humanitarian reform efforts from an NGO perspective. It finds significant progress in humanitarian financing, with the creation of the global Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and at the country level the Common Humanitarian Funds, the Emergency response Funds and Humanitarian response Funds. Improvements were also found as a result of the introduction of the cluster approach. Accountability to crisis affected populations was patchy and improvements in humanitarian leadership was particularly weak. The biggest gap was identified as the marginalisation of national NGOs from a process which was originally conceived by and focused on the international community.
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NHRP II note to Governments on the Transformative Agenda 18 December 2012 (1 MB)
Since the IASC’s adoption of the Transformative Agenda (TA) in December 2011, donors and some other governments have welcomed the IASC’s efforts to improve coordinated humanitarian responses. Donors have offered significant support to the TA and the humanitarian community are appreciative of this support. However gaps and weaknesses in the reform process linger and NGOs continue to experience challenges engaging with and influencing the mechanisms of the TA. This note summarises some of those issues and suggests a number of ways for donors to strengthen their advocacy and support.
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“Lend A Hand to Fight Hunger” on June 8
CAFOD today highlights an exclusive new short film by artist and CAFOD supporter, Sasha Langford.
Sasha took part in the first year of CAFOD’s Step Into The Gap programme, and her new film is inspired by CAFOD’s Hungry for Change campaign, and reflects on the fact that 870 million people are going hungry in the world every day. As Sasha’s film says, if all those people were to hold hands, the line would go around the world not just once, but more than twenty times.
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TAGS: 17.Campaigning, 267.Campaigning news, 19.Education, 176.Food, 252.Hunger, 359.IF, 263.News, 42.Step into the gap, 266.UK News, 33.Young People
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