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  • 22 Apr 2009
    First ever carbon budget 'a disappointment', says Christian Aid

    The government’s first ever UK carbon budget reveals a disappointing lack of ambition and leadership, says British-based international development agency Christian Aid. But it welcomes Gordon Brown’s decision to protect the aid budget.

  • 2 Feb 2009
    NGOs urged to nurture talent, as cuts bite

    As the bleak economic climate forces NGOs to scale back staff, human resource experts say managers should focus as much on developing skilled staff for the long term as they have on cutting back.

  • 2 Dec 2008
    Call for deeper aid commitment from British government

    Progressio has welcomed the British government’s repeated promise to deliver 0.7% of GNP in development aid to the world's poorest countries, but says it must follow through on long-term commitments to developing nations.

  • 27 Nov 2008
    Military causing 'no go areas' for aid workers in Afghanistan

    Humanitarian work must be de-linked from the military and the political process in Afghanistan, aid agency Christian Aid has said. Increasingly NGO work is threatened.

  • 26 Oct 2008
    Church of England links its world development campaigners on the web

    The Church of England’s national network of local campaigners on world development issues is being linked together more effectively on the worldwide web in a bid to amplify their voices on crucial global topics.

  • 16 Oct 2008
    Development agency urges radical approach to food security

    International development agency Church World Service is calling for concerted and urgent action by world bodies, governments and aid agencies to attack hunger, malnutrition and the continued toll of high food prices.

  • 24 Sep 2008
    Holy See calls for 'authentic partnership' with Africa

    As part of a UN debate about the future of development in Africa, a senior Vatican representative has called for "authentic partnership" with the continent in tackling the many challenges of poverty and development.

  • 18 May 2008
    Churches in China mobilise in support of earthquake victims

    Christian communities in mainland China and Hong Kong, both Protestant and Catholic, have been offering practical support and prayers to victims in Sichuan, who have suffered a devastating earthquake, China's worst in 30 years,

  • 14 May 2008
    Chinese churches and NGOs respond to earthquake crisis

    Chinese churches and Christian agencies, as well as the government and army, have begun responding to the recent earthquake. The quake, measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, has devastated a region west of the provincial capital Chengdu.

  • 11 May 2008
    Brown condemns generals' Burma relief inaction

    Burmese cyclone survivors face a massive crisis unless they are urgently delivered aid, leading aid agencies have warned - while Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on Burma's generals to ease restrictions on outside assistance.