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  • 11 Mar 2011
    Sacrifice and courage in Libya

    A friend of mine was on that delayed plane out of Tripoli. You remember the one? We saw images of it stuck on the runway at Gatwick, some technical problems making take-off impossible.

  • 8 Mar 2011
    Will you help someone like Amparo start again?

    When guerrilla soldiers threatened Amparo in her home in northern Colombia she had to make the most terrifying decision of her life – flee with her children and leave everything behind, or die.

  • 7 Feb 2011
    Government criticised for lack of action on bribery

    Major aid agencies are challenging the coalition government over its failure to implement the landmark Bribery Act for the second time.

  • 19 Jan 2011
    Trickle down needs trickle up

    Seventeen miles outside the Mozambique capital of Maputo sprawls the Mozal aluminium smelter - a huge industrial complex that cuts into the red earth and scrub woodland of the Boane district.

  • 7 Jan 2011
    It's a crisis! We're running out of chocolate digestives

    Food prices are rocketing but apparently we're going to be able to avoid hungry rioters because "rice is stable".

  • 12 Nov 2010
    G20 urged to stop using trade as football, start using it to help poorest

    As conflicts over trade interests dominates the G20 Summit in Seoul, CAFOD is urging world leaders to ensure trade is used as a tool for development.

  • 12 Oct 2010
    Weaving a new fabric for human flourishing

    The present model of economic globalisation, with its emphasis on financial profit and the pursuit of individual, corporate and national self-interest based on market principles, has long assumed that the values of competition, self-interest and unlimited freedom eclipse all else.

  • 13 Aug 2010
    The enormity of Pakistan's plight

    Right now, as you read this, the Disasters and Emergencies Committee (DEC) estimates that six million children are at risk of fatal disease and malnutrition in Pakistan

  • 20 Jul 2010
    EU urged to press for end to Gaza blockade

    Eighteen leading NGOs have called on the European Union to press for Israel's blockade on Gaza to be lifted. The call comes ahead of a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council.

  • 9 Jul 2010
    Aid agencies call for 'surge' to tackle west African hunger

    Ten leading aid agencies have called for a "surge" in the humanitarian effort to help ten million people at risk of acute hunger across the Sahel region of west and central Africa.