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  • 6 Mar 2008
    British aid agencies denounce 'collective punishment' in Gaza

    A group of senior British development agencies, including Christian Aid and CAFOD, have said the humanitarian situation in Gaza is worse now than at any time since 1967 and have denounced Israel's "collective punishment" policy.

  • 25 Feb 2008
    Sugar giant's switch is a Fairtrade Fortnight landmark

    Manufacturing giant Tate & Lyle's decision to switch its retail cane sugars range to Fair Trade has been welcomed by development campaigners and church aid agencies - but the need to move the social justice agenda in economics remains.

  • 20 Feb 2008
    CAFOD says European nations must assist Chad peace effort

    With conflict rife and peace in peril, the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development (CAFOD) has called on member states of the European Union, especially France, to look re-examine their role in troubled Chad.

  • 10 Feb 2008
    Abuse of Mexican electronics workers challenged in new report

    Electronics workers in Mexico are regularly subjected to denial of labour rights and dignity by companies - practices which needed to be challenged and changed, says a new report from the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development.

  • 4 Feb 2008
    CAFOD joins protest about impact of trade agreement on poor farmers

    CAFOD and other UK-based development groups are critical of the North American Free Trade Agreement, finalised this month. It will impoverish Mexican workers, they say. Radical economic, trade and financial reform is needed.

  • 18 Oct 2007
    Live simply DVD message wins major film award

    CAFOD, the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, has won a prestigious Clarion award for its DVD-Rom Live Simply: Louder Than Words', encouraging young people to get personally involved in tackling global justice issues.

  • 15 Aug 2007
    Church agency calls for calm amid East Timor violence

    The Catholic Fund for Overseas Development (CAFOD) has called for calm in East Timor amidst the violence that has escalated since Xanana Gusmao was appointed to be Prime Minister by the country’s new President Jose Ramos-Horta.

  • 6 Aug 2007
    International community neglecting South Asia flood victims

    The poorest people in India, Nepal and Bangladesh are the chief victims of major monsoon-driven floods across South Asia. And the situation is being made worse by lack of effective international action, local development planners are saying.

  • 10 Jul 2007
    Church agency calls on East Timor government to back reform

    The church development agency CAFOD, says that the world’s newest nation in the 21st century, East Timor, has been successful in running its first election . Now the Timorese Government must start delivering for the poor.

  • 15 Jun 2007
    Woman appointed head of global churches' aid network

    For the first time, a woman has been appointed as head of the global Caritas Internationalis network of official Catholic relief and development agencies. She formerly worked for the UK aid agency, CAFOD.