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  • 23 May 2011
    HIV/AIDS rates in West Papua rise by 30%

    Official figures released this month show that the number of people with HIV/AIDS in West Papua has grown by more than 30 per cent in four months.

  • 29 May 2009
    Amazon activist to bring climate change warning to Britain

    An activist from the Yanomami people in the Amazon is to tell MPs at the Houses of Parliament that the world’s rainforests cannot be put under further pressure from multinational companies or illegal loggers and miners.

  • 11 May 2006
    CAFOD exposes the dark side of gold mining

    The Catholic Fund for Overseas Development (CAFOD), the official aid agency of the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales, is today (11 May 2006) launching a report and campaign to highlight the injustice and exploitation that underlies the international gold trade.