Over the last 4 years, CAFOD’s Urban Programme in São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city has helped over 8,730 poor families escape the poverty trap and find new life and dignity.

CAFOD has welcomed the ruling of the War Crimes Court in The Hague against Charles Taylor, the former President of Liberia.

We have expressed grave concern over the deteriorating relationship in recent weeks between Sudan and South Sudan, and call on supporters to add their voices and prayers to the international calls for peace.

Please pray for peace for the people of Sudan and South Sudan>>

On 11th April 2012, CAFOD’s senior humanitarian policy adviser, Anne Street, addressed the European Union’s Committee on Humanitarian Aid and Food Aid about the importance of humanitarian principles

At least 38 people have died in a car bombing in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna over Easter, and several people were reported injured following a second attack in Jos.

Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, has endorsed a "code of conduct" which presents a set of guidelines religious women should obey in Afghanistan.

Marinez is an inspiring woman. She’s a midwife, an artisan, and she makes traditional natural medicines. She’s also the first woman indigenous community leader in her region.

International Women's Day is celebrated every year on 8 March. It's an opportunity to honour the inspiring women who are changing their communities and societies around the world.

ndika Manel, Padma Wathi, D. M. Nandawathie and Nandani Rajapaksa are making sure women have a political voice in Sri Lanka.

Threatened. Kidnapped. Exiled. Just some of the hardships Mary Luz Avendaño has experienced - because she is a journalist.

In her childhood, Margaret Mwaniki from Kenya witnessed women and children being beaten by their husbands and fathers. Growing up in a society which accepted violence against women inspired Margaret to fight for women’s rights.

Nitu has a shining smile and bright eyes that catch your attention long before you notice her crutches and the way she carefully holds her left leg.

30-year-old housewife and mother of five Celestina de Jesus Correia dropped out at sixth grade of primary school in 1988. Like most women in her village in East Timor she looks after her children at home while her husband works.

At the International Afghanistan Conference in Bonn, we worked with representatives of grassroots Afghan organisations to demand that women have a say in their country’s future.

Millions of Congolese are voting in their country’s second elections in 40 years. A delegation of Catholic Congolese Bishops (CENCO) is calling on all candidates to keep the peace and when the result is known, to respect it, without turning to violence.

In advance of World Food Day on Sunday 16 October, an alliance of Catholic development agencies demands governments ‘guarantee the right to food for all human beings’.

On the tenth anniversary of the international military intervention in Afghanistan, CAFOD is joining Afghan women’s rights activists to call for more positive change in years to come.

Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel peace prize, died on Sunday night. CAFOD's Joseph Kabiru describes her as "my heroine, a global inspiration, and a true Kenyan warrior".

CAFOD has received news that our Brazilian indigenist partner, CIMI Maranhão, and the Awá-Guajá indigenous tribe have been attacked by two Awá-Guajá people bribed by illegal loggers in their territory.

As the current president of the CIDSE network of Catholic charities, CAFOD has recently been working together with other European Member Organisations on a joint Paper on the situation in Palestine.

On World Indigenous Day, we look at the problems and challenges indigenous communities face and how we and are partners are helping them.

On Wednesday 22 June, Mary Luz Avendaño, a Colombian human rights journalist, received threats on her life from drugs traffickers. She had been investigating two dangerous gangs in Medellín, Colombia in their war for control of territory and drugs, and their links with the police.

Ahead of the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s 3-day visit to Brazil, CAFOD Director Chris Bain wrote to him to raise important environmental and humanitarian issues.

New laws will make it impossible for people in poor countries to seek justice in British courts for human rights breaches by UK multinationals.

CAFOD is continuing to press for fundamental changes in the behaviour and monitoring of extractive companies in Peru, following recent developments in the case of British mining company, Monterrico Metals.

In June Mgr Héctor Fabio Henao, director of CAFOD’s Colombia partner SNPS, came to the UK with two Colombian community leaders. Mélida Guevara and Jesús Alberto Castilla, whose communities have been torn apart by 50 years of internal conflict, visited the UK to tell the government and CAFOD supporters what they can do to help.

In a recent article for The Guardian Online, Bishop Rudolf Deng Majak, of Wau, southern Sudan, reminds Liam Fox that aid is vital.

This year, CAFOD’s sister agency Caritas celebrates its 60th birthday. This worldwide coalition of 165 Catholic aid organisations from around the world forms the largest humanitarian and development network in the world.

Ten years after the landmark UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV and AIDS, A high level meeting will review the progress made on the HIV epidemic.

As the G8 summit comes to an end, CAFOD Director Chris Bain and our policy experts assess what’s been achieved - and what remains to be done.

Don't let those in power forget the world's poorest! Join us for Tea Time for Change on June 9th>>