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Fairtrade Gold – a glimmer of hope?
The Fairtrade foundation is launching its new Fairtrade campaign
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TAGS: 267.Campaigning news, 263.News, 174.Trade and Fairtrade
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An important step towards Fairtrade gold
CAFOD welcomes the launch by the Fairtrade Foundation and the Alliance for Responsible Mining of Fairtrade and Fairmined gold standards.
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Landlessness and poverty are strongly linked - in many countries, a tiny minority of rich people own vast areas of fertile land, while the rest have no land on which to grow food
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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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In a new briefing report launched in the run-up to this year’s G20 summit in Mexico, development agency networks Caritas Internationalis and CIDSE are telling world leaders to act on hunger.
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Press release: One year on from the Horn and East Africa food crisis
One year on from the Horn and East Africa food crisis Last year more than 13 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and the newly-formed Republic of South Sudan were left in need of food, water and emergency healthcare because of one of the worst droughts in 60 years.
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TAGS: 311.East Africa, 207.Kenya, 263.News, 328.Press release
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“Conditions are very, very bad. This is the worst situation I’ve seen in Niger," says CAFOD's Michel Monginda Mondengele.
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TAGS: 265.Emergency news, 263.News, 215.Niger
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Cambodia: Help starts from love
Meet Phalla and her family, whose committment to helping children with no family and no home is helping to pioneer the way for others – with the support of CAFOD partner Maryknoll
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Slavery was abolished in Brazil 120 years ago and yet there are still 25,000 people living in slave-like conditions there today. Aleque was lucky enough to escape
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Haiti: new homes that will withstand disasters
Like millions of others, Celina Traesil lost everything in the earthquake that devastated Haiti two years ago. Today, thanks to you, she’s about to move into her new home.
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TAGS: 265.Emergency news, 204.Haiti, 263.News
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