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  • 30 Jun 2012
    Global church groups express disappointment with Rio outcome

    Several global faith-based organizations have expressed disappointment with the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20).

  • 19 Jun 2012
    When will the G20 lead?

    I have just reread an article I wrote for Ekklesia from last year’s G20 in Cannes, and while I sit here in the evening sun in Los Cabos with world leaders just a few miles away tucking into their Summit working dinner, I feel angry.

  • 19 Jun 2012
    G20: Slow progress at Los Cobos

    Los Cabos is hot and rammed full of federal police and offshore gunships and the military atop armoured vehicles. Late last night, when the US President touched down in the local airport, the town was awash with sirens and helicopters and outriders.

  • 16 Apr 2012
    Journalists dying for the truth in Mexico

    Since 2000, 55 journalists in Mexico have been killed. Most of them brutally shot or tortured for doing their job. Maria Elizabeth Macia Castro from the city of Nuevo Laredo wrote online under the pseudonym ‘The Girl from Laredo’, reporting the activities of criminal groups in her area. She used Twitter to push the information she uncovered to a wider audience.

  • 23 Mar 2012
    Human rights litigation against UK-based multinationals
  • 23 Mar 2012
    Legal aid: we must act for justice right now

    Next week (Tuesday 27 March 2012) the House of Lords will be voting on a crucial question for the UK’s international record on business and human rights.

  • 22 Mar 2012
    Legal Aid Bill will make it harder for global poor to get justice, says CAFOD

    CAFOD has warned that a UK Bill will make it harder for people in poor countries to seek justice in our courts for human rights breaches by UK multinationals.

  • 16 Mar 2012
    Haitians need partnership not colonial patronage

    On Sunday 11 March 2012 I travelled out to a community called Fonds Jean Noel, two hours from the Haitian capital Port au Prince up a jaw-breaking road of loose rocks and scree.

  • 16 Feb 2012
    Charities want UK to make oil, gas and mining companies tell the truth

    Aid charities are raising awareness of a new law that would force oil, gas and mining companies to tell the truth about their relations with poor countries.

  • 11 Jan 2012
    Haiti earthquake two years on

    Two years ago on January 12, as the late afternoon heat ebbed away, a catastrophic magnitude 7 earthquake hit the island of Hispaniola, devastating Haiti.